The 35th Toronto International Film Festival will open on 9th September, 2010 with the world premiere of the hit Canadian musical film Score: A Hockey Musical. The 35th edition of the world's premier film festival runs 9th-19th September, 2010 at its new venue of TIFF Bell Light box. The world's top film festival features about 300 films from more than 60 countries each year will have 15 galas and 35 special presentations this year. Organizers have chosen such an opener this year which captures the quintessential Canadian identity through the country's favorite pastime of ice hockey. Michael McGowan’s A Hockey musical will kick off the film festival with its opening night gala at Roy Thomson Hall. It captures key elements of Canadian identity – Canada’s passion for its national pastime, unique musical style and special brand of humor.Score --A Hockey musical: The film tells the story of 17-year-old Farley who lives the Canadian hockey kids' dream of going from obscurity to fame overnight. He is signed to a hockey league, where he achieves instant stardom, throwing him into a world of hype. The film tells the story of a teenage hockey phenom who lives the quintessential Canadian dream of being discovered on the ice and goes from obscurity to fame overnight. The film stars musical icon Olivia Newton-John (Grease, Glee), singer/songwriter Marc Jordan, newcomers Noah Reid and Allie MacDonald, and features cameos from an impressive lineup of Canadian music, broadcast and hockey stars.The film stars Canadian musical icon Olivia Newton-John, singer/songwriter Marc Jordan, newcomers Noah Reid and Allie MacDonald, and Canadian music- broadcast and hockey stars. In the film, seventeen-year old Farley has led a sheltered life. Much to the dismay of his parents (Newton-John, Jordan), Farley loves to play shinny with the local rink rats. To their even greater dismay, Farley is signed to a hockey league, where he achieves instant stardom, throwing him into a world of hype. Farley soon finds that hockey fame comes with a price.Score: A Hockey Musical features 19 original songs with lyrics written by McGowan, and featuring music from Barenaked Ladies, Olivia Newton-John, Amy Sky and Marc Jordan, and five songs on which Hawksley Workman contributedThis year ‘Dhobi Ghat', directed and produced by Aamir Khan's wife Kiran Rao and Anurag Kashyap’s That Girl in Yellow boots will have its world premiere at this year's Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF).Set in Mumbai, Kiran Rao’s 'Dhobi Ghat' revolves around four people who are separated by class and language but drawn together in compelling relationships. Shai, an affluent investment banker on holiday, strikes up an unusual friendship with Munna, a young and beautiful laundry boy with ambitions of being a Bollywood actor, and also has a brief dalliance with Arun. As they come closer together, their complicated relationship no more remains a secret.Apart from Kiran Rao, Anurag Kashyap, films by Robert Redford, Michael Winterbottom, Guillaume Canet, John Cameron Mitchell, Mike Mills and Andrucha Waddington will have their world premiere here. Filmmakers like Woody Allen, Sylvain Chomet, Mahamat-Saleh Haroun, Tran Anh Hung, Mike Leigh, Julian Schnabel and Im Sang-Soo will also make their North American premieres here this year.TIFF Bell Lightbox: The new Headquarter for FestivalCurrently under construction, TIFF Bell Lightbox, a breathtaking five-storey complex located in downtown Toronto, will provide a permanent home for film lovers to celebrate cinema from around the world and will propel TIFF forward as an international leader in film culture. Designed by innovative architecture firm KPMB, TIFF Bell Lightbox’s fluid structure encourages exploration, movement and play. The campaign to build TIFF Bell Lightbox is generously supported by founding sponsor Bell, the Province of Ontario, the Government of Canada, the City of Toronto, and the King and John Festival CorporationAbout TIFF:TIFF is dedicated to presenting the best of international and Canadian cinema to film lovers. It offers screenings, lectures, discussions, festivals, workshops industry support and the chance to meet filmmakers from Canada and around the world. It also aims to transform the way people see the world. Its vision is to lead the world in creative and cultural discovery through the moving image. The Toronto International Film Festival has become the launching pad for the best of international, Hollywood and Canadian cinema, and is recognized as the most important film festival after Cannes.TIFF is a not-for-profit cultural organization whose mission is to transform the way people see the world through film. Its vision is to lead the world in creative and cultural discovery through the moving image. HistoryStarting out in 1976 as a collection of films from other festivals -- the Toronto International Film Festival has become one of the most successful cinematic events in the world, universally regarded as an ideal platform to premiere films. Boasting a public eager for the best in contemporary film, as well as international attention from media, distributors, producers and buyers along with a galaxy of stars, the Toronto International Film Festival is considered the premiere film festival in North America. The festival has been described as "the most important film festival in the world – the largest, the most influential.Films to be screened:L’ amour fou, Another Year (Mike Leigh) The Bang Bang Club (Steven Silver) ,Barney's Version (Richard J. Lewis ), Beginners (Mike Mills ), The Big Picture (Eric Lartigau ), Biutiful (Alejandro González Iñárritu ), Black Swan (Darren Aronofsky ), Blue Valentine (Derek Cianfrance), Brighton Rock (Rowan Joffe), Buried (Rodrigo Cortés ),Casino Jack (George Hickenlooper ,Cirkus Columbia (Danis Tanovic), The Conspirator (Robert Redford ), Conviction (Tony Goldwyn ), The Debt (John Madden), Dhobi Ghat (Kiran Rao ) ,Easy A (Will Gluck ), Henry's Crime (Malcolm Venville ), The Housemaid (Im Sang-soo ), I Saw the Devil (Kim Jee-woon ), The Illusionist (Sylvain Chomet ), In a Better World (Susanne Bier ), It's Kind of a Funny Story (Anna Boden ) ,Jack Goes Boating (Philip Seymour Hoffman ), Janie Jones (David M. Rosenthal ),The King's Speech (Tom Hooper ), The Legend of Chen Zhen (Andrew Lau ), Little White Lies (Guillaume Canet ), Lope (Andrucha Waddington) ,Love Crime (Alain Corneau ), Made In Dagenham (Nigel Cole ), A moving portrait of four Palestinian women (Julian Schnabel ), Mysteries of Lisbon (Raul Ruiz ), Never Let Me Go (Mark Romanek ), Norwegian Wood (Anh Hung Tran), Outside the Law (Rachid Bouchareb) ,Peep World (Barry Blaustein) ,Potiche (Francois Ozon ), Rabbit Hole (John Cameron Mitchell ), Score: A Hockey Musical (Michael McGowan ), A Screaming Man (Mahamat-Saleh Haroun ), Stone (John Curran ), Submarine (Richard Ayoade ), Tamara Drewe (Stephen Frears ), That Girl in Yellow Boots (Anurag Kashyap ), The Town (Ben Affleck ), The Trip (Michael Winterbottom ), Trust (David Schwimmer ), The Way (Emilio Estevez ), West is west (Andy De Emmony),You Will Meet a Tall Dark Stranger (Woody Allen )Key persons: Piers handling: director and CEO of TIFF Cameron Bailey: Festival co-director
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