The Festival Announces Impressive List Of Sales Out Of 2009 Edition

Canada continues to thrive internationally with key acquisitions including Defendor and Suck

19/10/2009 | Toronto - Cameron Bailey, Co-Director of the Toronto International Film Festival announced an impressive list of film sales resulting from participation at the 34th Toronto International Film Festival. High-profile films such as Creation, Chloe, Get Low, Micmacs, Lebanon and A Single Man have found top distributors in all major territories, including the U.S. More than 3,000 industry professionals attended the Festival as delegates of the Sales & Industry Office, which facilitates film sales and fosters relationships between accredited buyers, sales agents and filmmakers.

"It is encouraging for all of us in the industry to see that sales continue in a tough marketplace," said Cameron Bailey, Co-Director of the Festival. "In particular, Canadian films are competing with some of the best and brightest in international cinema and as the distribution landscape continues to evolve, buyers have maintained an interest in reaching audiences with innovative, independent filmmaking. For film festivals everywhere, that's great news."

To date, U.S. sales are confirmed for: Accident, Air Doll, Art of the Steal, Bunny & the Bull, Chloe, Creation, Defendor, Dogtooth, Get Low, Hadewijch, I Am Love, Lebanon, Lourdes, Micmacs, My Toxic Baby, A Single Man and Valhalla Rising.

Significant international territories: A Single Man, Accident, Air Doll, Capitalism: A Love Story, Creation, Defendor, Hadewijch, I Am Love, Lebanon, Life During Wartime, Lourdes, Micmacs, Mother and Child, Nymph, Petropolis: Aerial Perspectives on the Alberta Tar Sands, Road, Movie, Soul Kitchen, Suck, The Disappearance of Alice Creed, The Good Heart, The Joneses, The Last Days of Emma Blank, The Secret in Their Eyes, Valhalla Rising and Women Without Men.

The complete list of films sold in territories due to participation in the Festival:
A Single Man, A Town Called Panic, Accident, Air Doll, Ajami, Art of the Steal, Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans, Bunny & the Bull, Cairo Time, Capitalism: A Love Story, Chloe, City of Life and Death, Collapse, Creation, Defendor, Deliver Us from Evil, Dogtooth, Fish Tank, George A. Romero's Survival of the Dead, Get Low, Gigante, Good Hair, Hadewijch, I Am Love, La Danse - The Paris Opera Ballet, Le Père De Mes Enfants, Lebanon, Life During Wartime, Lourdes, Max Manus, Micmacs, Mother, Mother and Child, My Toxic Baby, Nymph, Ondine, Petropolis: Aerial Perspectives on the Alberta Tar Sands, Police, Adjective, Road, Movie, Soul Kitchen, Spring Fever, Suck, The Disappearance of Alice Creed, The Good Heart, The Happiest Girl in the World, The Joneses, The Last Days of Emma Blank, The Secret in Their Eyes, The Warrior and the Wolf, The Young Victoria, Timetrip: The Curse of the Viking Witch, Triage, Valhalla Rising, Vincere, Wild Grass and Women Without Men.

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