Cameron Bailey
Artistic Director at Toronto International Film Festival
Jackie Chan set for TIFF Asian Film Summit
TIFF artistic director Cameron Bailey announced the inaugural edition of the industry-directed initiative, sponsored by the Shangri-La Hotel Toronto. "As both a key launch pad for films in North America and home to huge audiences for Asian cinema, we think Toronto can be a prime meeting ... Read more »
Marissa Bronfman: Cameron Bailey Brings Mumbai to the 2012 Toronto International Film Festival
The first thing I see as I walk into a boardroom in the TIFF Bell Lightbox to interview Cameron Bailey is a framed black and white photo of Aamir Khan and Kiran Rao, taken when they were in Toronto for the 2010 Toronto International Film Festival to premiere their film Dhobi Ghat. This ... Read more »
Bollywood's biggest fan
Indira Kannan talks to Cameron Bailey, the man behind it all Most people in India have never heard of him. But Cameron Bailey, the 48-year-old artistic director of the Toronto International Film Festival or TIFF, may be the strongest champion of Indian cinema on the global ... Read more »
TIFF People's Choice award goes to Silver Linings Playbook
TIFF CEO Piers Handling and artistic director Cameron Bailey presided over the festival's annual awards luncheon on Sunday, the finale of the 11-day movie marathon. Director David O. Russell, left, and actor Bradley Cooper spoke about their film Silver Linings Playbook during TIFF. (Evan ... Read more »
Film fans should seek out surprises, TIFF organizer says
Cameron Bailey is hoping that film buffs will find something to watch that amazes them, among the hundreds of works screening at this year’s Toronto International Film Festival. "I think I want Toronto to experience surprise," said Bailey, the artistic director for the annual ... Read more »
Film fans should seek out surprises, TIFF organizer says ...
Cameron Bailey is hoping that film buffs will find something to watch that amazes them, among the hundreds of works screening at this year’s Toronto International Film Festival. "I think I want Toronto to experience surprise," said Bailey, the artistic director for the annual ... Read more »
CivicAction Celebrates Ten Years, Calls for Stronger Cross-Sectoral, Cross-Regional Collaboration to...
Panelists included Cameron Bailey, Artistic Director, Toronto International Film Festival, Gabrielle Scrimshaw, Co-Founder/President, Aboriginal Professional Association of Canada and 2011 DiverseCity Fellow, and Mike Pedersen, Group Head, Wealth Management, Insurance, and Corporate ... Read more »
Take 5: The 'Looper' edition
In introducing the film as the opening-night selection of the Toronto International Film Festival earlier this month, festival artistic director Cameron Bailey said moviegoers should get used to it. "Tonight, we invite you to step into the future," Bailey said. "It's the first ... Read more »
The difficult path to a foreign-language film Oscar
Cameron Bailey, artistic director of the Toronto International Film Festival, took to Twitter to note "Odd that 7 of 9 on Oscars foreign shortlist are European. Not one good film from Asia or Africa this year? " Besides "Amour" and "Intouchables," the remaining films make for a heady mix ... Read more »
The Five Documentaries You Can't Miss At The Toronto International Film Festival
Director and Chief Executive Officer of the Toronto International Film Festival Piers Handling, left, and Co-Director of the Toronto International Film Festival Cameron Bailey host the opening news conference for the Toronto International Film Festival in Toronto on Tuesday, July 24... Read more »
How Tom Perlmutter turned the NFB into a global new-media player
“I like what Tom is doing,” said Cameron Bailey, artistic director at the Toronto International Film Festival. “He is one of the last visionaries in Canadian film, but a visionary who doesn’t just dream big, but is able to do.” A surprising mix of fervent old-school documentarian and ... Read more »
Canadian co-pro Inch'Allah wins jury prize in Beijing
Toronto International Film Festival artistic director Cameron Bailey was a member of the seven-person jury that judged the films. It is the first year the Beijing festival has presented prizes. Chinese film Back to 1942, Feng Xiaogang’s historical epic about a devastating famine in ... Read more »
'The Paperboy' serves up a heaping helping of Southern-fried pulp
Toronto International Film Festival programmer Cameron Bailey put it best in his program description. "Unabashedly raunchy and playfully tongue-in-cheek, 'The Paperboy' is wholly committed to crassness," he wrote, adding: "It's remarkable to see what Lee Daniels can convince his A-list ... Read more »
Lee Daniels serves up a heap of Southern-fried scandal in 'Paperboy'
Toronto International Film Festival programmer Cameron Bailey put it best in his program description. "Unabashedly raunchy and playfully tongue-in-cheek, 'The Paperboy' is wholly committed to crassness," he wrote, adding: "It's remarkable to see what Lee Daniels can convince his A-list ... Read more »
Rob Ford: ‘I’m not going anywhere, folks’
The radio show covered a variety of topics, playing host to guests such as hockey legend Paul Henderson and Toronto International Film Festival artistic director Cameron Bailey. But Councillor Ford spent substantial parts of the two-hour program trying to refocus the public debate on his ... Read more »
Toronto Film Festival 2012 Film Sales Strong For U.S ...
“With the Festival’s inaugural Asian Film Summit and Mumbai as the focus of the City to City programme, our goal was to attract more interest from delegates in Asia this year and we’re very happy with the results,” said Cameron Bailey, Artistic Director of the Toronto International Film ... Read more »
Toronto Film Festival 2012
Fest Artistic Director Cameron Bailey leaked the news via Twitter as the ceremony was taking place. The critically acclaimed comedy which stars Bradley Cooper, Jennifer Lawrence and Robert De Niro won unanimous praise across the board and is not a surprising choice. It’s a real ... Read more »
Futuristic thriller Looper to open TIFF 2012
The Toronto International Film Festival kicks off its 37th annual instalment the evening of Sept. 6 with what TIFF artistic director Cameron Bailey is calling “a thinking-person’s action film,” a futuristic thriller titled Looper from U.S. director Rian Johnson. The feature, Johnson’s ... Read more »
Cameron Bailey named artistic director of Toronto ...
Meet the new boss, same as the old boss: The Toronto International Film Festival announced Wednesday that Cameron Bailey, formerly known as the co-director of the filmfest, will receive a new title, artistic director of TIFF. “Today’s announcement is part of our ongoing efforts to become ... Read more »
Feng’s ‘Back to 1942′ Wins In Beijing
Also on the jury was Toronto’s artistic director Cameron Bailey, artistic director of the Toronto International Film Festival, British helmer Ivor Benjamin, Australian producer Geoff Brown, Korea’s Kang Je-gyu and the Chinese helmers Gu Changwei and Zhang Yibai. Cate Shortland won Best ... Read more »
