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<title>blogTO Recent Comments: Bella wins audience choice award... a bit early</title>
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<title>merly freixenet</title>
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 bella is a definitely oscar worthy the people choice award was very deserving!!!!!!!!!!!!!!]]>
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<pubDate>Tue, 26 Sep 2006 21:44:10 PDT</pubDate>
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<title>Matt</title>
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Adam: that's how I feel about Midnight Madness at TIFF! The closing film never has a chance!

Tony: thanks for the info. I think TIFF needs to be a lot more up front about this sort of thing. If it looks bad, it's bad for the festival, and this looked freakin' terrible.]]>
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<pubDate>Wed, 20 Sep 2006 19:52:16 PDT</pubDate>
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<title>Adam Lopez</title>
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Very strange.  Why can't they delay announcing the people's choice award until all the people have seen all the films? I have the same beef about the Short Film Fest.  They leave us geeks in the cold by playing the sci-fi collection of shorts AFTER the award ceremony.  YUP a sci-fi short can therefore NEVER win the audience choice award at the Short Film Fest!]]>
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<pubDate>Mon, 18 Sep 2006 02:19:17 PDT</pubDate>
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<title>Tony Hayden</title>
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I checked into this. According to TIFF and their 3rd party accounting firm who administers the vote, the official cut off for voting is Saturday morning and they made the official announcement at their Awards reception at around 12pm, which was before the final screenings, including the final screening of Bella. ]]>
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<pubDate>Sun, 17 Sep 2006 11:39:16 PDT</pubDate>
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What a fantastic piece of filmmaking.  One of my absolute favorites.  The character interactions and development is just so authentic.]]>
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<pubDate>Sun, 17 Sep 2006 01:56:18 PDT</pubDate>
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<title>Adam Lopez</title>
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Maybe it's just me Matt, but I thought the voting system for the people's choice award this year was a complete disaster. They made it SO hard to vote: many screenings I never got a voting slip going in or out, they changed it so you needed a pencil and had to write the film title each time, AND it was hard to find a kiosk to put your vote in - at least last year it was just a simple tear on a colour-coded slip and given to a waiting volunteer, many of whom had plastic baggies to collect votes.  Now the final insult that they announce the winner before all the films have been seen?!  Is TIFF trying to discredit and devalue its own people choice award?  They're doing a great job of it.  

We are going to try and make the voting at the Toronto After Dark Film Festival next month as simple and easy as possible for the audience. And COUNT every one of them too. It might be a lot of work, but at least then it truly is the AUDIENCE CHOICE and not this almost pointless system in place at TIFF. ]]>
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<pubDate>Sun, 17 Sep 2006 01:44:05 PDT</pubDate>
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<title>Rafa</title>
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Frater, muchas felicidades. Que Dios te bendiga y que continuen los exitos!

Pax Domini]]>
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<pubDate>Sat, 16 Sep 2006 16:53:03 PDT</pubDate>
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<title>Sameer Vasta</title>
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It might not have been on the website, but I got an email from the press office about the win for Bella almost two hours ago.]]>
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<pubDate>Sat, 16 Sep 2006 15:35:06 PDT</pubDate>
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