TIFF trivia

[mathew5000]

Two questions I’ve been wondering about. First, does every single film being shown this year have a “guest” in attendance? It sure seems that way; if not the director then either the producer or a cast member, often all three. The last time I attended the Toronto film festival (about a decade ago), a minority of films had a director present. My

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[anonymous]

They have one print, and a special projection system that runs it through two projectors. There's a gap in between where some minutes of film can build up if they don't want the two screenings to start at the same time.
--ThirteenDamnDollars

[anonymous]

It's called showing them in Tandem, and is quite cool to see functioning (at a megaplex I saw the first Pokemon film threaded through 6 projectors, and it was cool to see if run from the platter of the first projector, through the projector, then along the wall to the second project, etc. The hardest part of tandeming is preventing too much slack and too little. If there's too much, the film touches the floor, gets scratched, etc... and there's not enough... SNAP! and the film breaks. A computer system usually syncs up the films so this isn't a problem.
-PG