The 51st edition of the Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF) runs from Sept. 10-20. Western University has experts available to comment on a variety of topics related to TIFF, from economic impacts to soft power to AI in film and more.
Constanza Burucúa
Professor, Arts & Humanities
- Mapping TIFF project
- Latin American cinema
- Cultural diplomacy
- Soft power
- The dynamics between culture and nation-building
Lisa Henderson
Professor, Faculty of Information & Media Studies
- Queer cinema
- Filmmaking
- Cultural policy and Canadian identity
Kyle Maclean
Associate professor, Ivey
- Star actors
- Economic uncertainty in the film business
- Film distribution strategy
Selma Purac
Assistant professor, FIMS
- Consumer society
- Promotional culture (advertising/marketing)
- Horror cinema
- Children’s media
- Music and sound studies
Michael Raine
Associate professor, Arts & Humanities
- Japanese cinema: the transition to sound, wartime propaganda, Japanese new wave
John Reed
Lecturer, FIMS
- Live broadcast and televised event production
- Film production
- Technology and culture
- Digital and networked media
- Surveillance and digital ethics
Christine Sprengler
Professor, Arts & Humanities
- Films that deal with cultural memory, nostalgia and representations of history
- AI in film (especially with respect to representing the past)
- Intersections between film and the visual arts
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