Controversial Films at TIFF

1 Comments POSTED: September 7, 2006 09:23 | By: doc blog reporter
175.jpgIn today's Toronto Star, writer Peter Howell looks at the TIFF films likely to stir the most controversy, including several documentary titles.

[Right: Tony Kaye's abortion documentary  Lake of Fire]

Howell quotes the Festival Co-Director and CEO Piers Handling:

"Filmmakers want to engage with the world by taking on tough subjects," Handling said in an interview yesterday. "That's for sure a theme this year. For whatever reason, there's a feeling by filmmakers that certain battles that had been fought in the past ? like abortion, for example ? need to be fought again, along with other issues that are not being dealt with in the mainstream media."That's what (the festival) should be all about. Not closing down discussion, but opening up forums ... allowing controversial works to be shown."

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