If you see a man with long dark hair and black-framed glasses – a little like Johnny Depp, if you will – you should stop him and thank him. Chances are, it’s Steve Gravestock, TIFF’s director of Canadian programming, and he’s the kind of guy you can’t miss.
Gravestock, along with Marguerite Piggott and Jesse Wente, make up the Canadian Feature Film Selection Committee, and they’re the ones who brought crowd-pleasers such as My Winnipeg, The Tracey Fragments, and Young People Fucking to this year’s festival.
Gravestock’s job begins early in the year,...
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