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TIFF Unveils First Wave of Speakers for TIFF: The Market Summit

The lineup brings auteurs, actors, studio chiefs together to probe creative process, outline producer roles, and map festival-to-release trajectories.

Overview

  • TIFF announced the rebooted industry market, TIFF: The Market, will run Sept. 10–16 and on Friday revealed an initial slate of Visionaries and Dialogues speakers.
  • The newly named participants include Gary Oldman, Curry Barker, Robbie Brenner, Lee Chang-dong, Christine Vachon, Pamela Koffler, and Obsession star Inde Navarrette.
  • Oldman and Brenner are set for Visionaries talks focused on career and craft while Barker and Navarrette will appear in Dialogues to dissect Obsession’s making and its box-office journey.
  • Killer Films founders Vachon and Koffler will speak about the practical, multi-faceted role of producers and how they work with filmmakers.
  • TIFF positions the Sept. 10–16 Summit as a developing program with additional speakers and session details to be announced and aims to expand the market’s scope beyond film into television and other screen industries.