Crave and Pride Toronto Bring the Cast of CANADA’S DRAG RACE Together for Drag Ball Presented by Crave, June 27
TIFF CONTINUES IMAGES MATTER CONVERSATION ON POLICING BLACK LIVES AND POLICE PORTRAYALS IN FILM AND TV
TIFF + Bell Media’s Crave announce The Normal Heart and Clemency as next Stay-at-Home Cinema experiences
TORONTO — On Monday, June 22, TIFF continues to examine representations of police on film and the policing of Black lives with a special conversation hosted by Cameron Bailey, accompanied by a screening of the documentary Home Feeling: Struggle for a Community. To commemorate Pride Month, Stay-at-Home Cinema presents The Normal Heart with Golden Globe winner Matt Bomer on Friday, June 26. The following week, on Tuesday, June 30, Stay-at-Home Cinema features the TIFF 2019 selection Clemency.
Home Feeling: Struggle for a Community (available to watch for free through the National Film Board of Canada) is part of TIFF’s Images Matter series, which brings the Black experience with police to the forefront through film. This feature documentary takes audiences to the heart of Toronto’s Jane and Finch area in the early 1980s, and focuses on the relationship between law enforcement and people of colour living within the community. A conversation between the film’s co-director, Roger McTair, and Bailey will stream on tiff.net at 7pm EDT on Monday, June 22.
The TIFF + Crave Stay-at-Home Cinema experience on Friday, June 26 is in partnership with Pride Toronto and features actor and LGBTQ rights activist Matt Bomer who is set to discuss his work in the HBO Original Film The Normal Heart and the enduring legacy of its screenwriter, playwright and activist Larry Kramer with TIFF’s Director, Audience & Community, Keith Bennie. The film is a revival of Kramer’s Tony Award–winning Broadway play that explores the beginnings of the HIV/AIDS crisis in New York City in the early 1980s. Viewers are invited to watch the Q&A at 7pm EDT on tiff.net and stream the film on Crave at 7:30pm EDT.
On Tuesday, June 30, TIFF + Crave Stay-at-Home Cinema experience features Chinonye Chukwu’s Clemency, in which a death row prison warden grapples with the psychological fallout of her job. Cameron Bailey’s guest for the Q&A is yet to be determined. Viewers are invited to watch the Q&A at 7pm EDT on tiff.net and stream the film on Crave at 7:30 pm EDT. Clemency is part of Crave’s Black Excellence Collection which shines a light on Black stories, voices, and experiences.
Stay-at-Home Cinema continues to bring impactful films to moviegoers and provide industry perspective with special guests. Additional movie titles — all available on Crave — are announced weekly on TIFF and Crave’s social media channels.
For more information, please visit tiff.net and crave.ca.
About TIFF
TIFF is a not-for-profit cultural organization whose mission is to transform the way people see the world through film. An international leader in film culture, TIFF projects include the annual Toronto International Film Festival in September; TIFF Bell Lightbox, which features five cinemas, major exhibitions, and learning and entertainment facilities; and innovative national distribution program Film Circuit. The organization generates an annual economic impact of $189 million CAD. TIFF Bell Lightbox is generously supported by contributors including Founding Sponsor Bell, the Province of Ontario, the Government of Canada, the City of Toronto, the Reitman family (Ivan Reitman, Agi Mandel and Susan Michaels), The Daniels Corporation and RBC. For more information, visit tiff.net.
About Crave
Delivering more Oscar®-nominated and Emmy® Award–winning programming than any other service, Crave is Canada’s prestige entertainment offering, with HBO, SHOWTIME®, Starz, Hollywood-hit movies, a superior collection of kid’s movies and programs, and thousands of hours of acclaimed television series, specials, factual programming, and originals that can’t be found anywhere else.
Crave is the exclusive home of HBO in Canada, delivering HBO’s current slate of signature dramatic and comedic programs, documentaries, films, and live specials, as well as titles from HBO’s extensive off-air library. Crave is also home to current SHOWTIME series and specials, and past SHOWTIME hits. Crave Original hit series include comedies LETTERKENNY and NEW EDEN; CRAVINGS: THE AFTERSHOW with Lainey Lui; HEALTHY IS HOT with Chloe Wilde; candid interview series MUCH STUDIOS PRESENTS: MIKE ON MUCH IN CONVERSATION WITH…; a series of original stand-up specials; the upcoming competition series CANADA’S DRAG RACE; and the upcoming apocalyptic original comedic documentary series WE’RE ALL GONNA DIE.
Crave is a major supporter of Canada’s production industry, helping to fund and develop numerous film and documentary projects including feature films THE SONG OF NAMES, WHITE LIE, and THE GRIZZLIES among others, as well as Crave Original Documentaries ONCE WERE BROTHERS: ROBBIE ROBERTSON AND THE BAND, SHARKWATER: EXTINCTION, YOU ARE HERE: A COME FROM AWAY STORY, and ANTHROPOCENE: THE HUMAN EPOCH. Crave also includes acclaimed selections from the Toronto International Film Festival which are featured in two exclusive collections: Best of TIFF and TIFF Selects.
Crave is a bilingual TV and streaming service with more than 6,000 hours of exclusive French-language content included with the Super Écran add-on. Crave is available directly to all Canadians with access to the Internet at Crave.ca, via iOS and Android, and other platforms. It’s also available in English through participating television providers across six 24-hour High Definition linear and on demand channels. Crave is from Bell Media, Canada’s leading content company, providing Canada’s most-watched and most-acclaimed television programming on network, specialty, pay and digital platforms. For more information, visit crave.ca.
TIFF is generously supported by Lead Sponsor Bell, Major Sponsors RBC, L’Oréal Paris, and Visa, and Major Supporters the Government of Canada, the Government of Ontario, and the City of Toronto.
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