We’ve got weekend screening tickets to give away for some great TIFF movies – Tweet to us to win

Cadillac Festival Insider has got a few pairs of regular screening tickets up for grabs on Twitter. Just tweet to us at @FestivalInsider which screening tickets you would like and we’ll start randomly giving them away on Thursday, September 15th. It’s a great chance to catch a screening of Festival films that won’t necessarily be back in Toronto anytime soon.

[WON] HICK – Friday, September 16th – 2:30pm – VISA SCREENING ROOM AT ELGIN

[WON] THE AWAKENING – Saturday, September 17th – 9:00am – SCOTIABANK THEATRE 1

[WON] WINNIE – Saturday, September 17th – 12:00pm – TIFF BELL LIGHTBOX 1

[WON] FIRST POSITION – Saturday, September 17th – 12:30pm – TIFF BELL LIGHTBOX 2

RANDOM – Saturday, September 17th – 1:00pm – AGO JACKMAN HALL

[WON] DEATH FOR SALE – Sunday, September 18th – 9:30am – SCOTIABANK THEATRE 3

[WON] PINA – Sunday, September 18th – 12:00pm – TIFF BELL LIGHTBOX 1

[WON] CENTURY OF BIRTHING – Sunday, September 18th – 12:30pm AMC YONGE DUNDAS

[WON] DARK GIRLS – Sunday, September 18th – 4:00pm – AMC YONGE DUNDAS 24

Pick-up your TIFF screening tickets at the Cadillac display, on the south side of King st. just outside Roy Thomson Hall.

[VIDEO] Inside the Sales and Industry centre at the Toronto International Film Festival

Cadillac Festival Insider takes you inside another important part of TIFF – The Sales & Industry Office which is committed to facilitating relationships between accredited buyers, sales agents and filmmakers with films in the Festival. This is the place where the deals go down.

Fade to Black – The Cadillacs have wrapped their starring role in the 2009 Toronto International Film Festival

We have wrapped! And what an amazing TIFF’09 it has been. We put our best shine on and traveled to 21 Gala film premieres at Roy Thomson Hall and hundreds more at other Toronto theatres. We have met wonderful people from the United States, Europe, India, Asia, The Middle East, and Australia. We got numerous movie stars, TIFF helpers, worried publicists, (and one particular tiffinsider) to their screenings and press engagements on time. We even occasionally got that curious “what stars are you riding with?” look from Toronto bystanders. We have been left with the enchanting scents of beautiful actresses and actors – and even the occasional mess of an entourage. Our GPS was kept busy – often racing from red carpet premieres to trendy Toronto hot-spots. And yes, we even found time for an exotic drink or two (non-alcoholic of course, we were driving after all.) And we’ll be back to do it all over again. Perhaps in a slightly different shape, size, or colour next year. See you on roads in 2010!

Why PRECIOUS: Based on the Novel Push by SAPPHIRE is an important film to see – press conference for Cadillac People’s Choice Award winner in Toronto

Movie Critic Richard Crouse talks TIFF at Varsity Cinemas between press screenings – Part 1/3 – Favorite TIFF interview: Rolling Stones Bill Wyman

Movie reviewer and author Richard Crouse is a busy guy these days gearing up for tiff and his numerous media commitments. Richard sat down with the insider this week at Varsity Cinemas in Toronto where early press screenings are taking place for many of the 2009 festival premiering titles.

We’ll be running a few clips where Crouse shares his feelings on TIFF premiering films; Precious, Young Victoria, Whip It, Defendor, Dorian Gray, and more.