They decide who gets in – Globe and Mail

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August 31, 2007 11:31 pm
By: tiffreviews

Globe and Mail -  India in June can be insufferable: the heat, the traffic, the akimbo intensity of the place. And after spending nine days in Mumbai this year, Cameron Bailey was looking forward to getting home. As a programmer with the Toronto International Film Festival, Bailey had already been on the road for about eight weeks, in conditions that were sometimes luxurious but often brutal, making an annual pilgrimage from Canada to the Philippines, Dubai, South Africa, Cannes and Sri Lanka. Earlier in the year, he’d been to film festivals in Utah, Berlin and Burkina Faso. Now in India, he’d been taking the temperature of the domestic film industry through 14-to-16-hour workdays: screening movie after movie, exchanging gossip, gently rebuffing the importunings of Bollywood executives to be invited to TIFF. He’d already picked up a handful of Indian features on the trip. Charged with programming only about 25 films out of the total annual TIFF haul of 275 features, Bailey had pretty much finished his job. Still, he didn’t want to leave without seeing what he’d heard was an unusual piece by an unknown filmmaker. Set in the northern region of Ladakh during a harsh wintertime, and shot in high-contrast black-and-white, Frozen even had the bonus of featuring a hockey game on a Himalayan lake… [Full Story]

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