The Toronto International Film Festival might look quite different this year.
Set to begin Thursday, TIFF is typically a star-studded affair full of Hollywood A-listers. The festival brings more than 700,000 visitors to Toronto and accounts for more than $114 million in economic activity in the region, according to a 2022 report from FedDev Ontario.
“In many ways for North America, TIFF is the most important festival,” said filmmaker and writer Brian D. Johnson, whose film The Colour of Ink premiered at TIFF last year. It’s a significant gateway for international films to reach audiences in North America, he says.
But with the ongoing Hollywood actors’ and writers’ strikes, this
