Day 1 at the TIFF
Standing in line at the festival, my dad and I had our gameplan for the Elgin. We had the hottest ticket of the night, the world premiere of Canadian director Guy Maddin’s attempt to bring silent film back in Brand Upon the Brain! with 11 members of the Toronto Symphony Orchestra.
The Elgin is historic and beautiful. I jumped out of the car to join the already forming line just over an hour before the show. In front of me, a Bay Street banker type power woman name Fay chats me up about the French Riviera. She was waiting for her photographer husband Ray to show up. We decide that we'll both go to the Cannes next year, her husband shows up and they skip the line.
Others are buzzing about last night's midnight madness at Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan. British comedian Sacha Cohen, better known as Ali G, showed up with goats and villagers on the red carpet. The projector breaking down after 15 minutes, director Michael Moore trys to fix broken projector, Michael Moore fails to fix projector.
Behind me are some college kids and a festival guest (they all have these passes with green lanyards). They’re pissed about Visa, being the official sponsor of the screening room in Elgin, allowing its gold and platinum members to enter first.
“What fucking bullshit elitism!”
It makes sense to me that Visa would let its members have special treatment. After all, they are shelling out X-amount (a couple million at least) to sponsor the festival and they are just taking advantage to give some TLC to their precious Gold and Platinum (fee-paying) card holders.
Economically speaking it's good that VISA sponsors, art needs money. Any film needs a whole lot of money, from production to distribution. Though the VISA policy at the Elgin is pretty elitist, at least it's just at one screening room. Now what confuses me the most is why Bell Canada, the official sponsor, isn't cashing in on this. They could sell a lot of cellphones or something with the line skip incentive.
It's 4am and I'm exhausted from my first TIFF day, will write about Brand Upon the Brain! and The Host in the morning.
Standing in line at the festival, my dad and I had our gameplan for the Elgin. We had the hottest ticket of the night, the world premiere of Canadian director Guy Maddin’s attempt to bring silent film back in Brand Upon the Brain! with 11 members of the Toronto Symphony Orchestra.
The Elgin is historic and beautiful. I jumped out of the car to join the already forming line just over an hour before the show. In front of me, a Bay Street banker type power woman name Fay chats me up about the French Riviera. She was waiting for her photographer husband Ray to show up. We decide that we'll both go to the Cannes next year, her husband shows up and they skip the line.
Others are buzzing about last night's midnight madness at Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan. British comedian Sacha Cohen, better known as Ali G, showed up with goats and villagers on the red carpet. The projector breaking down after 15 minutes, director Michael Moore trys to fix broken projector, Michael Moore fails to fix projector.
Behind me are some college kids and a festival guest (they all have these passes with green lanyards). They’re pissed about Visa, being the official sponsor of the screening room in Elgin, allowing its gold and platinum members to enter first.
“What fucking bullshit elitism!”
It makes sense to me that Visa would let its members have special treatment. After all, they are shelling out X-amount (a couple million at least) to sponsor the festival and they are just taking advantage to give some TLC to their precious Gold and Platinum (fee-paying) card holders.
Economically speaking it's good that VISA sponsors, art needs money. Any film needs a whole lot of money, from production to distribution. Though the VISA policy at the Elgin is pretty elitist, at least it's just at one screening room. Now what confuses me the most is why Bell Canada, the official sponsor, isn't cashing in on this. They could sell a lot of cellphones or something with the line skip incentive.
It's 4am and I'm exhausted from my first TIFF day, will write about Brand Upon the Brain! and The Host in the morning.
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