CBC/RADIO-CANADA ANNOUNCED today nine titles the public broadcaster has supported have been selected to participate in this year’s Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF 2021).
The lineup features CBC original series Sort Of, which will have its North American premier at TIFF. Viewers will be able to watch it on CBC Gem on Oct. 5 and on CBC TV on Nov. 9 when back-to-back episodes air at 9 p.m. ET. The series is a “comedy about a young gender-fluid caregiver, whose life plans are disrupted when tragedy strikes the family they help to maintain,” according to a CBC press release. Sort Of was created by Bilal Baig and Fab Filippo who also directed it with Renuka Jeyapalan.
Other TIFF titles CBC highlighted include Carmen, Night Raiders and Wildhood, which were developed and produced in association with CBC Films.
There is also All My Puny Sorrows, Charlotte and Learn to Swim, which were produced in association with CBC Films, and Drunken Birds/Les Oiseaux Ivres, which was produced in association with Radio-Canada. Finally, Maria Chapdelaine, was produced with the financial assistance of Radio-Canada.
“CBC/Radio-Canada is committed to sharing a remarkable range of voices and perspectives with audiences in Canada and around the world through our ongoing, significant investment in Canadian film and television,” said Catherine Tait, president and CEO of CBC/Radio-Canada.
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