TORONTO INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL ANNOUNCES FIPRESCI AND NETPAC JURIES

TORONTO — The Toronto International Film Festival® is pleased to announce the return of two distinguished international juries to recognize outstanding works from select programmes in this year’s lineup. The two juries, featuring renowned film critics, are comprised of six members from FIPRESCI, the International Federation of Film Critics, and three jurors for NETPAC, the Network for the Promotion of Asian Cinema.

The FIPRESCI Jury will award the Prize of International Critics for the 27th year to one film from the Discovery programme and another from the Special Presentations programme. Last year, the winners were Sadaf Foroughi’s Ava in the Discovery programme and Manuel Martin Cuenca’s The Motive in the Special Presentations programme. The NETPAC Jury will present the NETPAC Award for Best Asian Film, which went to Huang Hsin-Yao’s The Great Buddha+ last year.

FIPRESCI JURY
Lesley Chow — Bright Lights Film Journal | Australia, Jury President
Andrés Nazarala — La Segunda Newspaper, La Panera, Haciendo Cine, El Agente Cine, Perro Blanco, La Agenda Buenos Aires | Chile
Astrid Jansen — Les Editions de L’Avenir, Les Fiches du Cinema, RTBF | Belgium
Pierre Pageau — Séquences – La Revue des cinémas pluriels, Derrière l’image (Radio Centre-Ville) | Canada
James Slotek — original-cin.ca, Zoomer Magazine, Cineplex Magazine, The Movie Network | Canada
Viswanath Subrahmanyan — e-Cineindia, filmfocusindia.com, Silhouette, Filmbuzz, Appreciation, Newsforum,Deccan Herald, Desimartini | India

NETPAC JURY
Vilsoni Hereniko | Fiji, Jury Chairperson
Meng Xie | China
Gülin Üstün | Turkey

The FIPRESCI Awards and NETPAC Award will be announced at the Festival Awards Ceremony at TIFF Bell Lightbox on Sunday, September 16, at 12:30pm.

The 43rd Toronto International Film Festival runs from September 6 to 16, 2018.