“I believe all desperate actions come from the loneliness inside you.” by indieWIRE (September 12, 2007)

Throughout the 2007 Toronto International Film Festival, indieWIRE will be publishing interviews with filmmakers in the Discovery section of the festival, which TIFF describes as a showcase for new and emerging filmmakers from contemporary international cinema.

Fourteen filmmakers were given the opportunity to participate in an e-mail interview, and each was sent the same questions. Director Paprika Steen is at Toronto with her feature film, “With Your Permission,” which is about a is about a opera-obsessed hero who works as a cafeteria manager on a Copenhagen ferry. TIFF describes the film as pushing “every button it gets near” and “propelled by its characters’ complete inability to face obvious truths and by our extreme discomfort.”

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Sean Penn is attached to play gay ’70s San Franciso politician Harvey Milk, and Matt Damon his assassin in a long-gestating project from director Gus Van Sant. Once a distribution deal is finalized, Van Sant hopes to begin production on the as-yet-untitled feature in San Francisco as early as December. Gregg Goldstein reports….

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Dong Dings Out “Hollywood” Expose by Brian Brooks and Peter Knegt (September 10, 2007)

Amidst the frivolity of parties, red carpets, dinners and flashing cameras, the Toronto International Film Festival displayed its serious side today (Monday), ahead of the sixth anniversary of 9/11, with a visit from the 39th President of the United States, Jimmy Carter and former First Lady Rosalynn Carter. The Carters were on hand to talk about Jonathan Demme’s new doc, “Jimmy Carter Man from Plains” — a triple award-winner at the recent Venice Film Festival this weekend — that follows Carter during the period after last year’s publishing of one of his most controversial books, “Palestine: Peace Not Apartheid.”

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