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Toronto: TIFF08 Free Outdoor Entertainment Yonge-Dundas Square
Throughout the Toronto International Film Festival organizers are providing free outdoor entertainment at Toronto's Yonge-Dundas Square right next to the Eaton Centre. There's a detailed schedule breaking down the activities each day in the press release, here are just a few of the events:
FESTIVAL SHOWCASE Invitational Slam Dunk Competition with an appearance by LeBron James
In support of Kristopher Belman's More Than a Game, a documentary about the journey of a remarkable high-school basketball team in Akron, Ohio, that included future NBA superstar LeBron James.
Saturday, September 6 at 1 p.m.
FESTIVAL SHOWCASE Concert: Miracle at St. Anna with Terence Blanchard
Internationally renowned jazz trumpeter and composer Terence Blanchard created the score for Spike Lee's latest feature Miracle at St. Anna and will perform in support of the film. Terence's acclaimed album Flow was produced in 2005 by the artist and four-time Grammy winner Herbie Hancock and showcases Terence's prodigious instrumental and composing skills.
Monday, September 8 at 8:30 p.m.
MOVIES ON MOVIES Film screening: Easy Riders, Raging Bulls: How the Sex, Drugs and Rock 'N' Roll Generation Saved Hollywood
Many consider the late 1960s and 1970s to be a time of great daring and invention in Hollywood cinema. A new generation of directors - Martin Scorsese, Francis Ford Coppola, Robert Altman, and Roman Polanski, to name a few - reshaped the boundaries of American filmmaking. Narrated by William H. Macy, Kenneth Bowser's documentary uses clips from key films and interviews with essential figures to shed light on this incredibly fertile period of film history.
Thursday, September 11 at 8:30 p.m.
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