Teasing More Toronto Reveals: How the Festival Landed Opener 'Demolition' and that Secret Michael Moore Doc

It's been a frenetic couple of weeks as the fall festivals jockey for attention for their slates, from New York and Venice to Toronto. TIFF's top programmer Cameron Bailey still has all sort of announcements and surprises to come, from Midnight Madness to Documentaries and Contemporary World Cinema, to the new prime-time TV and Platform series. He called me from a last-minute screening to fill me in. They did announce Michael Moore's top-secret documentary "Where to Invade Next," which they will showcase at the beginning of the festival. Like everyone else, Bailey was unaware of the doc, which Moore was making secretly. But fest doc programmer Thom Powers knows Moore well and...

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