The Toronto International Film Festival established Canadas Top Ten Film List in 2001. Pacific Cinémathèque will screen this years Top 10 films and Top 10 shorts Jan. 18-20, 25-26 and Feb. 1-4, 2013. For more information go to thecinematheque.ca/canadas-top-ten-2012.
Canadas Top 10 Films 2012
in alphabetical order
Cosmopolis (Director David Cronenberg)
The End of Time (Director Peter Mettler)
Goon (Director Michael Dowse)
Laurence Always (Director Xavier Dolan)
Midnights Children (Director Deepa Mehta)
My Awkward Sexual Adventure (Director Sean Garrity)
Rebelle (Director Kim Nguyen)
Still (Director Michael McGowan)
Stories We Tell (Director Sarah Polley)
The World Before Her (Director Nisha Pahuja)
Canadas Top 10 Shorts 2012
in alphabetical order
Bydlo (Director Patrick Bouchard)
Chef de meute / Herd Leader (Director Chloe Robichaud)
Crackin Down Hard (Director Mike Clattenburg)
Kaspar (Director Diane Obomsawin)
Lingo (Director Bahar Noorizadeh)
Malody (Director Phillip Barker)
Old Growth (Director Tess Girard)
Reflexions (Director Martin Thibaudeau)
Paparmane / Wintergreen
(Director Jolle Desjardins Paquette)
Members of this years feature panel were: Toronto documentary filmmaker Barri Cohen; Kerri Craddock, senior manager of festival programming at TIFF; Now magazine film critic and Toronto programmer Paul Ennis; Matt Galloway, host of CBC Radio Ones Metro Morning in Toronto; Judy Gladstone, for 15 years the director of the Bravo!FACT production grant program for Canadian short films and videos; Montreal actor-writer-director Jacob Tierney (The Trotsky); and Elizabeth Yake, president of B.C.-based True West Films.
Panellists for this years selection of short films were: Eileen Arandiga, former director of the Worldwide Short Film Festival in Toronto; Laura Good, programming coordinator and short film programmer for TIFFs Film Circuit; Matthew Hays, Montreal-based journalist, author, and Concordia University instructor; Jennifer Jonas, president of Toronto-based New Real Films; and Greg Klymkiw, film producer and Senior Creative Consultant and Producer-in Residence at the Canadian Film Centre.
