Toronto True Crime Film Festival 2018
608 College St, Toronto, ON M6G 1B4, Canada
43.65520770000001
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Description
Toronto True Crime Film Festival is a 2-day film festival dedicated to true crime on the big screen, including both documentary films and fictionalized films based on true crimes. Join us for our first annual festival June 8th-9th, 2018 in Toronto, Canada!
Get Your All-Access Pass for $65 (SAVE $30 OFF REGULAR TICKET PRICES!) and get priority access to all TTCFF activities, including five theatrical film screenings at THE ROYAL CINEMA and three intimate symposium events at THE MONARCH TAVERN.
*15% of all ticket sales will be donated to charity*
To View The TTCFF 2018 Complete Schedule, Visit: https://www.torontotruecrimefilmfestival.com/sched...
FRIDAY, JUNE 8TH:
@ THE ROYAL CINEMA (608 College St.)
7:00 PM - ABDUCTED IN PLAIN SIGHT Dir. Skye Borgman / 91 min / 2017 / USA / English / International Premiere
A stranger-than-fiction documentary about the Brobergs; a naïve, church-going Idaho family that fell under the spell of a sociopathic neighbor who would stop at nothing to be with their twelve-year-old daughter.
9:30 PM - MY NAME IS MYEISHA
Dir. Gus Krieger / USA / 2018 / 82 min / Canadian Premiere
The award-winning Slamdance hit MY NAME IS MYEISHA is a hip-hop musical inspired by the 1998 police shooting of California teen Tyisha Miller and adapted from the internationally acclaimed play, Dreamscape.
SATURDAY, JUNE 9TH:
@ THE MONARCH TAVERN (12 Clinton St.)
11:00 AM - SYMPOSIUM: "Why Do Women Love True Crime?" - presented by Investigation DiscoveryThis panel will look at womens’ historical engagement with true crime fandom, from the Victorian era to today.
12:45 PM - SYMPOSIUM: "L.A. Despair: Chasing Death With John Gilmore" - presented by Miskatonic Institute Of Horror Studies
This multimedia presentation explores the life and work of the late Noir and true crime writer John Gilmore and is a meditation on the relationship between pop cultural crime landmarks of the past century and celebrity iconography viewed amidst the landscape of the tragedies he chronicled.
2:30 PM - SYMPOSIUM: "The Rise Of The Armchair Detective" - presented by Hunt A Killer
This panel looks at non-law enforcement professionals who have taken it upon themselves to investigate – and sometimes solve! – ongoing and cold cases.
@ THE ROYAL CINEMA (608 College St.)
4:00 PM - MONSTER Dir. Patty Jenkins / USA / 2003 / 109 min / 15th Anniversary Screening
A 15th anniversary screening of Patty Jenkin’s Academy Award winning biopic, which tells the tale of one of the world’s most infamous female serial killers, Aileen Wuornos.
7:00 PM - THE STRANGER
Dir. Nicole Nielsen Horanyi / Denmark / 2017 / 100 min / Canadian Premiere
This documentary-narrative hybrid stars the real life people who discovered that Casper, the wealthy heir to a family fortune who entered their lives, was actually an imposter.
9:30 PM - HOSTAGES Dir. Rezo Gigineishvili / Georgia | Russia | Poland / 2017 / 103 min / Canadian Premiere
A tension-filled drama based on the true story of seven Georgian youth who attempted to escape the Soviet Union by hijacking an airplane in 1983.
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Start:
2018-06-08T19:00:00-04:00
End:
2018-06-09T23:00:00-04:00
Category
Film
Tickets
SYMPOSIUM: "Why Do Women Love True Crime?"
11.09
CAD
50
SYMPOSIUM: "The Rise Of The Armchair Detective"
11.09
CAD
50
SYMPOSIUM: "L.A. Despair: Chasing Death With John Gilmore"
11.09
CAD
50
FILM: Abducted In Plain Sight
14.24
CAD
260
FILM: My Name Is Myeisha
14.24
CAD
260
FILM: The Stranger
14.24
CAD
260
FILM: Monster
14.24
CAD
260
FILM: Hostages
14.24
CAD
260
All-Access Pass
68.84
CAD
50
