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TORONTO INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL

TIFF People’s Choice Award goes to

Steven Spielberg’s The Fabelmans

RENU MEHTA AND THE WINNERS ARE: ry’s The Blackening leur’s Viking
Toronto Platform Prize • Amplify Voices Award: Martika
TIFF 2022 People’s Choice Award: Ramirez Escobar’s Leonor Will
he Toronto International Film • Steven Spielberg’s The Fabelmans The winner of the 2022 Platfom Prize is: Never Die
festival (TIFF) presented over • Anthony Shim’s Riceboy Sleeps • Shawn Mendes Foundation
T250 films from September 8 • First Runner-up: Sarah Pol- Changemaker Award
to 18, 2022 from across the world. ley’s Women Talking IMDbPro Short Cuts Awards
Some of the biggest names in film • Second Runner-up: Rian John- IMDbPro Short Cuts Award for Best The 2022 Changemaker Award
walked the red carpet in Toronto son’s Glass Onion: A Knives Out Film:
including Oprah Winfrey, Steven Mystery • Winner is Luis De Filippis’s Some-
Spielberg, Nandita Das, Shekhar Ka- TIFF 2022 People’s Choice • Lkhagvadulam (Dulmaa) Purev- thing You Said Last Night.
pur, Shabana Azmi and Viola Davis Documentary Award: Ochir’s Snow In September Special Mention for Best Feature from
amongst others. The span of films IMDbPro Short Cuts Award for Best an Emerging BIPOC Filmmaker:
entertained film lovers who arrived • Hubert Davis’s Black Ice Canadian Film:
from across the globe. • First Runner-up: Stephanie • Madison Thomas’s Buffy
Johnes’s Maya and the Wave • Aziz Zoromba’s Simo Sainte-Marie: Carry It On
Of the 252 films screening at • Second Runner-up: Babak Paya- IMDbPro Short Cuts Award for Share FIPRESCI and NETPAC International
this year’s Festival, 63 were first mi’s 752 Is Not A Number Her Journey Award: Federation of Film Critics (FIPRESCI)
Prize:
features; 37% were directed by TIFF 2022 People’s Choice Midnight • Carol Nguyen’s Nanitic • Basil Khalil’s A Gaza Weekend
Amplify Voices Awards
women; 38% were directed by Madness Award: presented by Canada Goose Network for the Promotion
BIPOC directors; and 15% were • Eric Appel’s Weird: The Al Yankov- - Best Canadian Feature Film: of Asia Pacific Cinema
ic Story
directed by 2SLGBTQ+ directors. • First Runner-up: Ti West’s Pearl • Nisha Pahuja’s To Kill A Tiger (NETPAC) Award:
• Second Runner-up: Tim Sto- • Special Mention: Stéphanie Laf- • Jub Clerc’s Sweet As

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