Friday's Last Screenings!

Thou Gild'st The Even, The Sacrament and People In Places all have their final Festival screenings tonight.

If you had the powers of the people in Thou Gild'st The Even, you could probably make all three!

THOU GILD’ST THE EVEN Screening Times:

Friday, Sept 13th, 7:00 PM SCOTIABANK 11

THE SACRAMENT Screening Times:

Friday, Sept 13th, 8:45 PM SCOTIABANK 3

PEOPLE IN PLACES Screening Times:

Friday, Sept 13th, 9:00 PM SCOTIABANK 4

PEOPLE IN PLACES: Profiles Of Actors Eduard Fernández, Rául Arévalo, and Santiago Segura

People In Places is an off-kilter comedy from writer, director, and cinematographer Juan Cavasteny that's screening as part of the Festival's Vanguard Programme.

We thought we'd take a closer look at three of the actors in the film: Eduard Fernández, Rául Arévalo, and Santiago Segura.

Eduard Fernández worked on TV for about 15 years before transitioning to film. It was a good move on his part because he soon snagged two Goya awards. One was for Fausto 5.0 in 2001, a retelling of Faust involving a doctor and someone who may or may not have been a former patient. The other was for the urban melodrama En la ciudad in 2003.

You may have seen Fernández in other films such as Alejandro González Iñárritu's film Biutiful (along with Javier Bardem) in 2010 as well as Pedro Almodóvar's The Skin I Live In from 2011. 

  

Rául Arévalo also started his career on TV, appearing as Carlos Medina in two seasons of the high school drama Compañeros. In 2006, he portrayed Israel in Azuloscurocasinegro (Dark Blue Almost Black), which was nominated for and won a lot of awards, including one from the Spanish Actors Union for Arévalo himself as "Best Newcomer." That same year he also appeared in the Antonio Banderas-directed Summer Rain. More recently he's appeared in Almodóvar's 2013 film I'm So Excited.

 Santiago Segura has been in every Alex de la Iglesia film (this director's Witching and Bitching is playing at Midnight Madness this year), which is pretty impressive.

It was de la Iglesia's 1995 film The Day of the Beast (El día de la Bestia) that made Segura famous. He plays a death metal salesman (!) who is involved in a plot--along with the Italian host of a TV show about the occult and a Catholic priest--to kill the Antichrist.

Hilariously, in order to finance his own directorial efforts, Segura has appeared on TV game and quiz shows. One of these was 1998's Torrente, el brazo tonto de la ley that Segura wrote, directed, and starred in. He plays a degenerate cop who busts a drug ring. This film spawned three sequels and a video game (the second sequel became the highest grossing Spanish film of all time). 

When you go see People In Places--and we know you will--keep your eyes peeled for these three very different, yet talented and interesting, Spanish actors.

PEOPLE IN PLACES Screening Times:

Friday, Sept 6th, 7:15 PM TIFF BELL LIGHTBOX 3

Saturday, Sept 7th, 4:30 PM SCOTIABANK 9

Friday, Sept 13th, 9:00 PM SCOTIABANK 4

PEOPLE IN PLACES Director Profile and Twitter Round-Up!

This past weekend was graced with two--yes two!--screenings of Juan Cavestany's People In Places (Gente en Sitos). To those of you who missed those two chances to see this delightful film (ahem, you better have a good excuse), we put together a little background on the director and some thoughts on the film from the Twitterverse to help entice you to catch the last screening.

Impressively, Cavestany wrote, directed, and shot People In Places. We can barely do two things at the same time, so colour us impressed. (Which is probably a lovely shade of aqua.) His other writing credits include Guerreros (which he co-wrote with director Daniel Calparsoro). The film centred on a group of Spanish army engineers during the Kosovo War. The tense war drama was screened at the 2002 Toronto International Film Festival. And then for something completely different, he wrote the screenplay for 2007's Blinkers, which focused on a soccer referee and some shady occurrences.

But he's not done yet: Cavestany also has three previous writer/director credits under his belt. 2004's El asombroso munro de Borjamari y Pocholo is a movie about two kids from the 80s who refuse to grow up and features a rocking' soundtrack of 80s Spanish pop hits. Four years later,  Cavestany was tackling the comedy genre with Gente de Mala Calidad, a film about veteran gigolo who comes home and attempts to win back his old sweetheart. And then Dispongo de barcos (2010) is described as a surreal drama/comedy as the four main characters wander a city in a daze trying to figure out who they are--to themselves and each other.

Whether it's a war drama or coming of age movie set to 80s songs, Cavestany has proven his talent with a unique voice and penchant for the bizarre and odd. His film at this year's Festival is no different. See what the word (pun totally intended) is on Twitter. (Note, some of these are in Spanish, but our trusty translator tells us they speak nothing but high praise.)

PEOPLE IN PLACES is a laugh out loud, delightful bit of off-beat cinema. 3.5 out of 5. http://t.co/Og6wPMAo2d #TIFF13
— Movie Monocle (@moviemonocle) September 7, 2013

#PeopleInPlaces is a hilariously absurd kind of ensemble/YouTube movie from Spain - worth seeking out for comic relief at #TIFF13
— John Fink (@FinkJohnJ) September 7, 2013

Parece que por fin se reconoce el talento de Juan Cavestany! GENTE EN SITIOS ha provocado estupor y carcajadas en Toronto. Culto inmediato.
— JA Bayona (@FilmBayona) September 8, 2013

Que Toronto se prepare para Juan Cavestany, el surrealismo, el bajo presupuesto y un gran resultado. ¡Viene "Gente en sitios"!
— Claudia Gracia (@CLAUDIALGRACIA) September 7, 2013

Si existe una mente privilegiada en mi generación es la de Juan Cavestany http://t.co/MojgDsZN8r vía @eccultura
— elsafernándezsantos (@sunsetelsa) September 8, 2013

@faustianovich ...el mérito es de Juan Cavestany que ha escrito y dirigido una joya del surréalismo de andar por casa y por Toronto
— Enrique Lavigne (@enriquelavigne) September 7, 2013

And now that we know you're totally dying to catch the last screening of People In Places, here is all the information you need:

PEOPLE IN PLACES Final Screening Time:

• Friday, Sept 13th, 9:00 PM SCOTIABANK 4

PEOPLE IN PLACES Trailer

Spanish independent film director Juan Cavestany's People in Places explores Spain's social instability following its economic crisis through the lens of surrealism that has famously been represented by other Spaniards such as Luis Buñuel. As his first feature film, Cavestany served as a one-man crew on a microbudget in collaboration with a mix of some of Spain's greatest actors and new and unknown faces.

Below is the trailer for People In Places, which has its World Premiere at this year's Toronto International Film Festival within the Vanguard programme.

Further information about Juan Cavestany's People In Places can be found on the Festival website, as well as on the People In Places IMDB page.

PEOPLE IN PLACES screening times:

• Friday, Sept 6th, 7:15 PM TIFF BELL LIGHTBOX 3
• Saturday, Sept 7th, 4:30 PM SCOTIABANK 9
• Friday, Sept 13th, 9:00 PM SCOTIABANK 4