TIFF 2019: Move over, Masters: How the Toronto film festival is redefining which filmmakers get into the canon

Terrence Malick, is in the program this year for the first time with the Second World War-era drama A Hidden Life.The headlines spilling out of the Toronto International Film Festival this week will be concentrated on three subjects: celebrities, the Oscars, and streetcar delays. But there is another layer to TIFF that often gets lost in the quick-hit discourse: the prolific international auteurs who make up the festival’s Masters program.

With the larger and flashier TIFF films having now premiered over the festival’s first weekend, The Globe and Mail’s Barry Hertz caught up with Deane to talk about the ever-changing canon.You’ve assumed lead programming duties for Masters this year – the same year you’ve also joined the Platform programming team, in addition to your role as senior manager for TIFF’s Cinematheque in the Lightbox year-round.

For Masters, Piers Handling was the lead programmer for that, before he retired last year. How do your approaches differ? Which is still not enough. Hopefully we’ll have more and more every year. And it’s the system, too – the funding of films, who’s getting to make films. But I think that there’s no reason there should ever be zero. It’s the same with the Cinematheque at the Lightbox year-round, where it’s even more difficult because you’re going further back in history.

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