The marquee titles at this year’s Toronto International Film Festival will use the platform to launch their fall theatrical releases and generate buzz for their Oscar campaigns, but there are a number of high-profile films that are also looking for distribution. While the market aspect of TIFF isn’t often the biggest news coming out of Toronto, there is a history of impactful acquisitions with films like “The Hurt Locker,” “Jackie,” “I, Tonya,” and “The Wrestler” having sold at previous TIFFs.
This year’s lineup of films up-for-sale certainly has the potential to make similar noise with Xavier Dolan’s “The Death and Life of John F. Donovan,” Mia Hansen-Love’s “Maya,” Brady Corbet’s “Vox Lux,” Errol Morris’s “American Dharma,” and the Telluride hit “Biggest Little Farm” being among the most enticing offerings.
The Toronto International Film Festival runs September 6 – 16 in Toronto, Canada. Stay up to date on all of this year’s TIFF acquisitions below.
– Netflix Purchases “Lionheart”: Netflix has acquired worldwide right to Genevieve Nnaji’s directorial debut “Lionheart.” Nnaji in a producer and actress who is a recognizable star in Nigeria, where she has appeared in close to 100 different TV shows and movies. Starring in her first film as a director, she plays a proven executive at her father’s bus company, but along with her rival (Kalu Egbui Ikeagwu) is passed over when her father hands the company over to her uncle. Kiva Reardon, writing for TIFF, described the film as “sharply and comically observed, Nnaji’s film deals with the everyday sexism that saturates workplaces everywhere, and captures the delicate balance between honouring one’s family while finding the courage to strike out on one’s own.” The film will have its world premiere Saturday, September 8, and marks the first Netflix original film from Nigeria.
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