The 2019 Toronto Film Festival on Thursday unveiled its industry conference lineup, including a keynote conversation with Imagine Entertainment's Ron Howard and Brian Grazer and panels on gender equality and sustainable film and TV sets.
The Sept. 6 to 10 conference will kick off with a Moguls conversation with Grazer and Howard, who are executive producing TIFF's opening night film,and won an Oscar for helming 2002'sImagine Entertainment, founded in 1986 with the goal of creating independently produced features, TV series and other content, more recently expanded into new vertical units including documentary, kids and family, brands, live theater, international and TV studios.
Other industry panels set for TIFF's Industry Conference include a talk about storytelling led by Aron Phillips, director of development at LeBron James' Uninterrupted, and another on evolving film festivals with programmers from Toronto, Sundance, Cannes and Berlin on stage. Elsewhere, the TIFF Doc Conference, which focuses on documentaries, will hear from filmmakers like Barbara Kopple, Alan Berliner and Yung Chang. “As the film and television landscapes shift due to political, cultural and technological developments, the conference reminds professionals that with change comes the opportunity for new stories and voices to be heard," Geoff Macnaughton, TIFF director of industry, said in a statement.
Toronto programmers also Thursday named six TV series set to receive first looks as part of the festival's Primetime showcase.
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