Press conferences
SATURDAY, JUNE 4 – CITY PLAZA HOTEL/ BALLROOM HALL
10.30 – Press conference with Fernando Léon de Aranoa, Spanish film director present in the 3X3 section
SUNDAY, JUNE 5 – CITY PLAZA HOTEL/ BEIJING HALL
10.30 – Press conference dedicated to EcoTIFF
Guest: Michael Madsen (director of Into Eternity)
11.30 – Press conference dedicated to Diversity Day
Guests: Mona Nicoară and Miruna Coca-Cozma (directors of Our School), Luminiţa Cioabă (director of Romany Tears), Ionuţ Piţurescu (director of Balkan's Digest)
TIFF LOUNGE – UNIRII SQUARE
12.30 – Meeting the press and audience, autograph signing session
Guest: Michele Placido (director of Vallanzasca) – recipient of the TIFF Lifetime Achievement Award offered to an Outstanding Personality of the European Cinema
MONDAY, JUNE 6 – CITY PLAZA HOTEL/ BEIJING HALL
10.30 – Press conference Theatre at TIFF
Guests: Mihaela Sîrbu (director, Autobahn), Vera Ion (director, Ich Clown), Gianina Cărbunariu (director, Roşia Montană – On the physical and political line), Saviana Stănescu (playwright, Polanski, Polanski), Tamilla Woodard (director, Polanski, Polanski), Miki Branişte and Cora Sevianu (Theatre at TIFF project coordinators)
TUESDAY, JUNE 7 – CITY PLAZA HOTEL/ BALLROOM HALL
10.30 – Press conference TIFF 2011 Official Competition Jury
Guests: Laurence Herszberg (General Director Forum des Images), Cedomir Kolar (producer), Uberto Pasolini (producer), Radu Muntean (director), Vesela Kazakova (actress and producer)
WEDNESDAY, JUNE 8 – CITY PLAZA HOTEL/ BEIJING HALL
10.30 – Press conference dedicated to Hungarian Day
Guests: András Vágvölgyi (director, Kolorado Kid), Jakab-Benke Nándor (director, Antigona), Attila Árpa (actor, Czukor Show), Gábor Erdélyi (sound designer, Turin Horse), Attila Till (director, Beast), Szabolcs Thuróczy (actor, Beast), Toma Peiu (programmer Hungarian Day).
THURSDAY, JUNE 9 – CITY PLAZA HOTEL/ BEIJING HALL
11.30 – Press conference dedicated to Focus Belgium
Guests: Eric Franssen (Manager, Wallonie Bruxelles Images), Fabienne Reuter (General Delegate, Delegation Wallonie-Bruxelles), Sophie Schoukens (director, Marieke, Marieke), Maarten Mertens (actor, Oxygen), José De Pierpont (Embassy Secretary, Embassy of Belgium)
FRIDAY, JUNE 10 – CITY PLAZA HOTEL/ BEIJING HALL
12.00 – Press conference dedicated to Focus Norway
Guests: Jan Erik Holst (Executive Director of International Relations, Norwegian Film Institute), Hilde Berit Eide (Consultant and Head of Mission – Royal Embassy of Norway in Bucharest)
12.30 – Press conference with Jacqueline Bisset, recipient of TIFF Special Award for the Contribution to the World Cinema
SATURDAY, JUNE 11 – CITY PLAZA HOTEL/ BEIJING HALL
10.30 – Press conference with Marin Karmitz – French producer, recipient of the Special Award of the 10th Transilvania IFF
11.30 – The Phantom Father press conference
Guests: director, script writer and producer Lucian Georgescu, actor Marcel Iureş, writer Barry Gifford, author of the volume The Phantom Father, and producer Joachim Von Vietinghoff
12.30 – Loverboy press conference
Guests: director Cătălin Mitulescu, actors Ada Condeescu and George Piştereanu, producer Daniel Mitulescu