Actress Jennifer Garner arrives for the screening of The Invention of Lying at last year's Toronto International Film Festival. (Mark Blinch/Reuters)

To cover this year's Toronto International Film Festival from Sept. 9 to 19, CBC News Your Voice assembled a team of citizen bloggers and CBC staff to bring you a street level of the city during the event.

You'll be connected to all the action and kept informed of the latest developments through blog posts, photos, interviews, film reviews, and updates via social media.

Read through to see photos, video and observations from the ground.
 

Citizen bloggers

Chris Berube is a freelance writer, fact-checker, radio producer, and all around bon vivant. He's been a programmer at CIUT, the community radio station in Toronto, for four years, where he hosts a weekly arts and culture program, and has also contributed work to Eye Weekly. He sees far too many films each year at TIFF, and has broad taste in movies.

Jonathan Doyle is a Toronto-based writer. Doyle has programmed films for Montreal's Fantasia Film Festival and Toronto's Trash Palace. He is also an interactive content co-ordinator for several Astral Television Networks websites, including The Movie Network and HBO Canada -- and a former programming associate for TIFF.

Christine Estima is a freelance film critic, blogger, novelist, playwright, backpacker, and hell-raiser based in Toronto. She cannot wear white without spilling something on it, but you'll still find her, most likely, in the fridge at 4am. She means well.

Sachin Hingoo is a freelance writer, film reviewer, and blogger based in Toronto. When he's not working a day job to pay the bills, he can be found sacrificing sleep to sit in darkened movie theatres during TIFF and volunteering in various capacities. As you might guess, such things leave him very tired.

Stephenson Price is the art director of t.o.night Newspaper, and co-host/producer of the music multimedia series The Indie Machine.  A journalism and film graduate from Carleton University, he spends most of his free time playing music, gaming, and watching cheesy genre flicks and thrillers.  He is a TIFF newbie, please don't hold that against him.

Roger Rousseau is a Toronto based screenwriter and copywriter who has been attending TIFF for over ten years. Originally from northern Ontario, he grew up on a diet of horror and science fiction films. Despite having refined his cinematic palate while earning a BFA in film from York University, his regimen still includes a hefty portion B grade films.

Sachin Seth is a fourth-year journalism student at Ryerson University. He's interned with CNN and CNN International and spends an unbelievable amount of time watching '80s action movies. He'll be interning with the CBC's London bureau this fall.
 

Anastasia "Nat" Tubanos is a cross-platform journalist, producer and host. She's launched six online shows since 2005, writes a column on Women's Post called "Bridging the Gap" where she explores how new media and old media interact and hosts an entertainment show called Your Geek News where she reviews geeky genre films.

CBC News team

Ilana Banks is a producer for CBC News: Entertainment. She cultivated her love for all things entertainment and pop culture related as the first high school intern at MuchMusic and has never looked back. Since then she has worked at CNN, directed a documentary in the Sudan, produced a youth focused news show at CTV and various CBC Arts News programs.

Greig Dymond is a feature writer for CBC Arts Online. His writing on arts and culture has appeared in The Globe and Mail, the National Post, Toronto Life and Saturday Night. He is the co-author of the national bestseller Mondo Canuck: A Canadian Pop Culture Odyssey.

Lee Ferguson is a features writer at CBC Arts Online. She has written about film and books for the Toronto Star, eye weekly and Cinema Scope magazine (where she also served as associate editor). Lee has a bachelor's degree in cinema studies and English from the University of Toronto.

Eli Glasner is a film reviewer and reporter with CBC News: Entertainment. He'll be trying to consume as many films as possible during TIFF while trading picks and pans with his compatriots on the red carpet. He's been attending TIFF for over a decade and still misses the Uptown Theatre.


Jennifer Hollett's first TIFF was in back 1997. She makes sure to hit the film fest every year, and is proud to have caught movies like Boogie Nights and Slumdog Millionaire at the festival. Jenn is best known as a MuchMusic VJ, where she interviewed hundreds of stars. At present, she is a cross-platform contributor with CBC News Network's Connect with Mark Kelley.

Andre Mayer is the senior producer for CBC Arts Online. His writing on arts and culture has appeared in The Globe and Mail, the National Post, Toronto Life and Chatelaine, as well as in a number of university texts. He won a National Magazine Award in 2007.

Martin Morrow is a feature writer and film critic for CBC Arts Online. Martin was chief theatre critic for 11 years at the Calgary Herald, where he also wrote about film and television. In 1995, he won the Nathan Cohen Award for Excellence in Theatre Criticism.

Timothy Neesam has worked as a producer and director on a wide range of news, current affairs and arts and entertainment projects for CBC Radio, Radio 3 and CBC.ca. Timothy's fine art and documentary photography is published in a variety of magazines and newspapers. He is currently the photo editor for CBCNews.ca.

Deana Sumanac is an arts reporter for CBC News. She appears regularly on CBC News Network, where she covered this year's Academy Awards from LA, and also contributes stories to The National. Before appearing in front of the camera, Deana worked as a producer on CBC News: Sunday. 

Laura Thompson is a producer with CBC News: Entertainment. At TIFF time, it's her job to coordinate coverage and book celebrity interviews. Laura has applied powder to dozens of famous t-zones, including those of Benicio del Toro and Michael Sheen.

Jessica Wong is an arts news writer with CBC Arts Online who has a few years of Toronto film festival coverage under her belt. She looks forward to the glitz, glamour and chaos TIFF brings to her hometown each September.

TIFF 2010 Street Level production team

Kim Fox is a CBC News senior producer of social media, aiding in the development and execution of social media, community management and user engagement strategies. Before joining CBC, Kim worked and consulted as a multi-platform producer for many media companies including Maclean's, Canadian Business, Second City, Sirius, MTV, Fox, Sony, and Clear Channel.

Adrian Ma is an associate producer with CBCNews.ca working in social media and user-generated content. He has also written news and feature articles for numerous publications, including the Toronto Star, Hamilton Magazine, the Echo Weekly and the Waterloo Chronicle. Adrian received his master's in journalism from Ryerson University in 2009.

Amil Niazi is an associate producer with CBCNews.ca working in social media and user-generated content. Before joining CBC she was the host of a global music show on CityTV and editor of Only Magazine, a weekly arts and culture publication in Vancouver. Her freelance work has appeared in Vancouver Magazine, Bad Day, the Westender and CBC Radio 3.

CBC intern

Emily Gagne is an intern with CBC Arts Online and a Ryerson University journalism student. A film geek since her infant obsession with E.T., Emily has been attending TIFF since 2004. Every September, she finds herself eating popcorn for dinner and asking herself the age-old question: Michael Cera or class? Before interning at the CBC, she contributed to TVGuide.ca and Ryerson's feminist magazine McClung's.