Today is the official opening of TIFF's new home at King & John. The Bell Lightbox features five new theatres and will greatly expand the capacity of the Cinematheque and provide a focal point for film in the city.
They shut down the street for a block party this afternoon. I arrived in time to see the red carpet for the first film at the Lightbox -- Bruce McDonald's "Trigger". I'll be seeing Trigger next weekend and will have more on that later. I'll post a couple of snaps from the red carpet next.
If the proverbial bomb had gone off here this evening, it would have wiped out an entire generation of Canadian filmmakers -- besides Bruce, some of the folks at Trigger were Atom Egoyan, Patricia Roszema, Peter Mettler, Don McKellar and several others.
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