The Toronto International Film Festival was first launched as the Toronto Festival of Festivals, collecting the best films from other film festivals around the world and showing them to … See more

The festival's major prize, the TIFF People's Choice Award, is given to a feature-length film. It is not a juried prize, but is given to the … See more

According to the BBC, TIFF is one of the largest and most prestigious events of its kind in the world. In 1998, Variety acknowledged that … See more

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The festival was founded in 1976 at the Windsor Arms Hotel by Bill Marshall, Henk Van der Kolk and Dusty Cohl. Beginning as a collection of the best-regarded films from film festivals … See more

The hundreds of films screened at the annual festival are divided into sections (referred to by TIFF as "Programmes") based on genre (e.g. documentary, children's films), format (e.g. short films, television episodes), the status of filmmaker (e.g. … See more