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Chaz Ebert
September 22, 2023
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RogerEbert.com writer Chaz Ebert’s video dispatch from the 2023 Toronto International Film Festival options footage of TIFF Tribute Awards Gala, together with the presentation of the TIFF Ebert Director Award to “Do the Right Thing” filmmaker Spike Lee by Ebert, “Moonlight” director Barry Jenkins and TIFF CEO Cameron Bailey. The video additionally consists of speak in regards to the WGA and SAG-AFTRA strikes, a couple of of the pageant’s engaging choices and photographs of Ebert’s interview with “American Fiction” star Jeffery Wright at Cannes 2023. The written transcript of the video follows…
[embedded content] The Toronto International Film Festival 2023 had a really robust lineup. We are all conscious of the continued actor and author strikes. Still, there was lots to see and discuss. However, as you possibly can see, I’m nonetheless in my Barbenheimer mode. Congratulations to Greta Gerwig for being the primary girl director to herald over a billion {dollars} on the field workplace. This yr, I used to be extraordinarily happy to be joined by Barry Jenkins to current the TIFF/Ebert Director Award to Spike Lee. As I used to be preparing that night, nevertheless, I spotted that in over 30 years of attending movie festivals everywhere in the world, I had by no means seen a Black male director obtain an award from a Black girl at a movie pageant headed by a Black male with one other Black male director on stage on the identical time. It was an historic night time. And Spike typically reminds folks of the time that my late husband Roger backed him up on the Cannes movie pageant in opposition to those that thought “Do the Right Thing” shouldn’t be screened in America. Other awardees on the TIFF Tribute Awards included director Pedro Almodóvar, actor/director Patricia Arquette, cinematographer Łukasz Żal, actress Vicky Krieps, Brazilian filmmaker Carolina Markowicz, Canadian producer/director Shawn Levy and actor Colman Domingo. Domingo starred in two movies at TIFF, together with “Rustin,” certainly one of my favorites of the pageant. Directed by George C. Wolfe, the movie chronicles mental civil rights chief Bayard Rustin, whose opponents didn’t need him to take part within the 1963 March on Washington as a result of he was homosexual, regardless that he organized it. Domingo’s efficiency is getting some early Oscar buzz. TheNetflix movie was produced by former President Barack Obama and his spouse Michelle’s manufacturing firm, Higher Ground Productions. It will begin streaming on Friday, November seventeenth. Another movie I related with was “Lee”, directed by cinematographer-turned-director, Ellen Kuras. Kate Winslet stars as Lee Miller, the previous Vogue mannequin who turned one of many few ladies correspondents protecting World War II. Making the movie much more private for me, just some weeks earlier, I had visited Lee Miller’s precise dwelling in Sussex, England, and had a tour from her son Antony Penrose, who wrote the e book upon which the movie is predicated. Lee Miller led an enchanting life and her work in documenting Nazi atrocities has been invaluable to historical past.
A couple of different movies receiving wonderful buzz out of Toronto embody Andrew Payne’s “The Holdovers”, Azazel Jacobs “His Three Daughters”, starring Natasha Lyonne, Elizabeth Olsen, and Carrie Coon, and Cord Jefferson’s “American Fiction” starring Jeffrey Wright, whom I interviewed at Cannes. The closing night time movie this yr was the documentary “Sly”, profiling the life and legacy of Sylvester Stallone. Accompanying the movie was an artwork exhibit that includes quite a few works by Stallone in addition to his authentic script for “Rocky”. TIFF is at all times a heat, inviting pageant and this yr was no exception. For that, we are able to thank our Canadian neighbors to the north and pageant CEO Cameron Bailey. Thank you a lot. We look ahead to returning subsequent yr.
Chaz Ebert
Chaz is the CEO of a number of Ebert enterprises, together with the President of The Ebert Company Ltd, and of Ebert Digital LLC, Publisher of RogerEbert.com, President of Ebert Productions and Chairman of the Board of The Roger and Chaz Ebert Foundation, and Co-Founder and Producer of Ebertfest, the movie pageant now in its twenty fourth yr.
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First seem at TIFF 2023 Video: Festival Highlights Including Spike Lee Receiving the TIFF Ebert Director Award
