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Talents Alumni at Toronto 2022

Sep 20, 2022

More September successes for the Berlinale Talents alumni! This time we're directing our congratulations and applause to the longgggg list of at least 68 alumni who were selected for TIFF across 47 films and the five of those who walked away with awards! Congratulations to all!

"A Gaza Weekend" – writer & director Basil Khalil (BT 2010) Winner of the FIPRESCI Jury Award. Courtesy of TIFF

Contemporary World Cinema

"Alam" – director & writer Firas Khoury (BT 2008), producer Ossama Bawardi (BT 2008)

"Autobiography" – director & writer Makbul Mubarak (BT 2012), editor Carlo Francisco Manatad (BT 2012), producer Yulia Evina Bhara (BT 2018 & TPM 2019), production designer Sigit D. Pratama (BT 2022), Armi Rae Cacanindin (BT 2014)

"Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman"– editor Kara Blake (BT 2004) "Bones of Crows" – producer Trish Dolman (BT 2003)

"Domingo y la Niebla" – director Ariel Escalante Meza (BT 2017), producer & cinematographer Nicolás Wong Díaz (BT 2018), editor Lorenzo Mora Salazar (BT 2016), composer Alberto Torres Malalengua (BT 2021)

"Vanskabte Land" – producers Katrin Pors (BT 2008), Anton Máni Svansson (BT 2012)

"La Jauría" – writer, director & producer Andrés Ramírez Pulido (BT 2017), producer Lou Chicoteau (BT 2016)

"Life" – director, co-writer, cinematographer, co-editor & producer Emir Baigazin (BT 2008)

"Living" – cinematographer Jamie D. Ramsay (BT 2013)

"Amor y matemáticas" – cinematographer Carlos Correa (BT 2016)

"Plan 75" – producer Eiko Mizuno-Gray (BT 2019), co-producer Alemberg Ang (BT 2013/21)

"Ananghoonska" – actor Elle-Máijá Tailfeathers (BT 2013)

"Stonewalling" – co-director, co-writer, cinematographer, co-editor, co-production designer & producer Ryuji Otsuka (BT 2015)

"Najsreќniot Čovek na Svetot / Najsretniji Čovjek na Svijetu" – director & co-writer Teona Strugar Mitevska (BT 2004)

"The Hotel" – editor Lee Chatametikool (BT 2006)

"Vicenta B." – editor Joanna Montero (BT 2017), co-writer Fabián Suárez (BT 2012) "Obeť"(Victim) – director Michal Blaško (BT 2022)

"We Are Still Here" – production designer Natalie Beak (BT 2008)

"Until Branches Bend" – writer, director & exec. producer Sophie Jarvis (BT 2013), producer Michela Pini (BT 2016) 2022 Shawn Mendes Foundation Changemaker Award Winner. Courtesy of TIFF.

Discovery

"A Gaza Weekend" – writer & director Basil Khalil (BT 2010) Winner of the FIPRESCI Jury Award

"A Long Break" – production designer Guram Navrozashvili (BT 2006)

"Daughter of Rage" – editor Raúl Barreras (BT 2012)

"I Like Movies" – editor Simone Smith (BT 2019)

"Snow and the Bear" – writer, director & producer Selcen Ergun (BT 2018), producer Nefes Polat (BT 2017) 

"Something You Said Last Night " – producers Michela Pini (BT 2016), sound Gina Keller (BT 2018)

"The Young Arsonists" – writer & director Sheila Pye (BT 2006)

"This Place" – editor Maureen Grant (BT 2019)

"Until Branches Bend" – writer, director & exec. producer Sophie Jarvis (BT 2013), producer Michela Pini (BT 2016) 2022 Shawn Mendes Foundation Changemaker Award Winner


Gala Presentations

"Alice, Darling" – editor Gareth C. Scales (BT 2007)


TIFF Docs

"Ciné-Guerrillas: Scenes from the Labudovic Reels" – writer, director, cinematography, editor & producer  Mila Turajlic (BT 2009/16)

"Ever Deadly" – co-director & co-writer Chelsea McMullan (BT 2007), editor Avril Jacobson (BT 2009)

"Free Money" – cinematography Nyasha Kadandara (BT 2021)

"Louis Armstrong's Black & Blues" – editor Jason Pollard (BT 2013)  

"While We Watched" – producer Khushboo Ranka (BT 2015) 2022 Amplify Voices Award for Best BIPOC Feature Film


Platform

"Charcoal" – writer & director Carolina Markowicz (BT 2018), editor Lautaro Colace (BT 2017)

"Riceboy Sleeps" – sound Matt Drake (BT 2018) 2022 Platform Prize Recipient


"Riceboy Sleeps" – sound Matt Drake (BT 2018) 2022 Platform Prize Recipient

Platform

"Charcoal" – writer & director Carolina Markowicz (BT 2018), editor Lautaro Colace (BT 2017)

"Riceboy Sleeps" – sound Matt Drake (BT 2018) 2022 Platform Prize Recipient


Special Presentations

"Corsage" – producer Bernard Michaux (BT 2007), actor Jeanne Werner (BT 2018), editor Ulrike Kolfer (BT 2014)

"Holy Spider" – actor Sara Fazilat (BT 2017), producer Sol Bondy (BT 2016), producer Jacob Jarek (BT 2007)

"The Eternal Daughter" – art director Byron Broadbent (BT 2006)

"Stories Not to be Told" – production designer Anna Pujol Tauler (BT 2011)

"The Blue Caftan" – producer Katrin Pors (BT 2008)

"The Wonder" – cinematography Ari Wegner (BT 2009)

"Concrete Valley" – writer & director Antoine Bourges (BT 2022) 


Wavelengths 

"Queens of the Qing Dynasty" – writer, director, editor & producer Ashley McKenzie (BT 2018)

"Unrueh" (Unrest) – writer, director & editor Cyril Schäublin (BT 2010), producer Michela Pini (BT 2016)

"Puerta a puerta" – director Jessica Sarah Rinland (BT 2012)

"Bigger on the Inside" – director Angelo Madsen Minax (BT 2016)

"Will-o'-the-Wisp" – director Mariana Gaivão (BT 2013)