TIFF 2022: The Experience

This is a two month’s late recap, I know. But it’s still something that I wanted to get out there.

In the nine years that I have attended the Toronto International Film Festival, this year’s edition also happened to be my third year on the press, which also went and made it my first year back following the first lockdowns as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic. For myself, it was huge. I’m a film student, within my final year of college, planning to make my thesis film, and something that I’ve already got ahead of myself to where I feel like I’d want to go within the industry.

But I talk about this only in here because I know this was the busiest year I’ve ever had at TIFF. I wanted to celebrate the festival like I had no tomorrow, like my life had depended on it, and trying to mix all of that with the fact that my time at school was going to be where I had to cram so much just so that I could maintain a nice work-life balance. Even then, I have all the confidence to say that in the many …