Four Canadian Films Supported by Crave to Screen at 2020 TORONTO INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL

Following this morning’s announcement of the full slate of films and special presentations at the Toronto International Film Festival, Crave congratulates its partners on their selection by the festival. Among the lineup of 50 titles participating in this year’s festival are four Crave-supported films: the Crave Original Documentaries Inconvenient Indian (from Michelle Latimer) and The New Corporation: The Unfortunately Necessary Sequel (from Joel Bakan and Jennifer Abbott), as well as the feature films Falling (from Viggo Mortensen) and Beans (from Tracey Deer), which also received funding through Bell Media’s The Harold Greenberg Fund. Additionally, it was confirmed today Dennis Kelly’s The Third Day has been selected for the TIFF Primetime Program, the second HBO title to be announced for the festival following Spike Lee’s David Byrne’s American Utopia, which will open the festival. It’s the second year in a row a Crave title has been selected to open TIFF. The Third Day premieres on Monday, September 14 at 9 p.m. ET on Crave with David Byrne’s American Utopia premiering later this year. The 45^th Toronto International Film Festival runs September 10–19. Below is a closer look at the Crave-supported Canadian films selected for TIFF: Beans Twelve-year-old Beans is on the edge; torn between innocent childhood and delinquent adolescence; caught between her mother’s desire to shelter her at a predominately-white private school. and her father’s drive to mold her into a true Mohawk warrior like him. A heart-wrenching coming-of-age story, Beans is set during the harrowing events of the Oka Crisis, which tore Quebec apart for 78 tense days in the summer of 1990. (Director: Tracey Deer / EMA Films) Falling In his directorial debut, Viggo Mortensen explores the fractures and contrasts of a contemporary family. John (Mortensen) lives with his partner, Eric (Terry Chen), and their daughter, Monica (Gabby Velis), in California, far from the traditional rural life he left behind years ago. His father, Willis (Lance Henriksen), a headstrong man from a bygone era, lives alone on the isolated farm where John grew up. Willis’s mind is declining, so John brings him west, hoping he and his sister, Sarah (Laura Linney), can help their father find a home closer to them. Their best intentions ultimately run up against Willis’s angry refusal to change his way of life in any way. (Director: Viggo Mortensen / Perceval Pictures and Ingenious Media in association with Hanway Films, Scythia Films, and Zephyr Films) Inconvenient Indian – Crave Original Documentary                       This feature documentary from Michelle Latimer takes viewers on a journey into the mind of Thomas King, one of the world’s foremost intellectuals, and one of our greatest storytellers. Inspired by his stinging bestseller, this sumptuous film journeys across the continent to explore the ways Indigenous peoples continue to inconvenience colonial states with their existence and their resistance. (Director: Michelle Latimer / 90th Parallel Productions Ltd and the National Film Board of Canada) The New Corporation: The Unfortunately Necessary Sequel – Crave Original Documentary The Corporation (2003) examined the institution of the corporation and its role within society. The New Corporation: The Unfortunately Necessary Sequel reveals a society now engulfed by that institution, wholly captured and seduced into adopting corporate values, serving corporate interests, and slowly, unwittingly ceding our independence. The documentary looks at how we got here, and what can be done to regain, revitalize, and reimagine our democracy. (Directed by Joel Bakan and Jennifer Abbott / Grant Street Productions in association with Screen Siren Pictures Inc.)