Monday was a good day for celebrities. After seeing a pair of good movies, (SORRY, HATERS and Michael Haneke’s CACHE) I joined Chris for the splashy screening of Bart Freundlich’s TRUST THE MAN. This star-studded film was rather disappointing considering how much I enjoyed Freundlich’s first feature, THE MYTH OF FINGERPRINTS, but we did enjoy a good bit of celebrity sighting. In addition to Freudlich, the cast was in attendance and I was thrilled to finally see Julianne Moore in the flesh! She was, of course, incredibly beautiful. Also there were David Duchovny, Maggie Gyllenhaal (and her date, brother Jake), Billy Crudup and Ellen Barkin. Pretty exciting. Too bad the film didn’t match.
From there we caught the much-anticipated new film from Daniel MacIvor, A WHOLE NEW THING, which he stars in and co-wrote. Director Amnon Buchbinder introduced the film and brought the cast on stage, including Daniel, Aaron Webber, Hugh Thompson and Kathryn McLellan. Also present were producers Camelia Frieberg and Kelly Bray. The film was beautifully written (natch) with terrific performances from young lead Webber, 
Daniel, Rebecca Jenkins, Robert Jay and Callum Keith Rennie). It was also exciting to spy Don McKellar and Tracy Wright in the audience during the Q&A.
After the screening, Daniel greeted us and invited us to the film’s special party at The Super Market in Kensington. We jumped on that idea… a party of Canadian film people? But first, we met Mary and Diane at Flow, one of the very trendy late night Festival haunts for a drink and a nibble. Immediately upon entering the restaurant, Beth spied Freddy Rodriguez, who plays Federico on “Six Feet Under.” Of course we were right next to the Four Seasons, so no surprise there. Later Scot and I were out for a cigarette break when we met the enthusiastic Jess who informed us that “Requiem” Phoenix was also here. I deduced that she must mean Joaquim, and she confirmed that. Still, Requiem Phoenix has a nice ring to it.
Anyway, we hopped into a cab and headed down to the Kensington Market area of Toronto, which is where “Twitch City” was filmed. There we found the party starting to wind down, but we still got a chance to chat with Daniel. Don McKellar was also there, as were the director and a couple of cast members from WHOLE NEW THING. I was also able to say hello and thank Camelia Frieber for the all the help she has provided with our screening of WILBY WONDERFUL earlier this year. We dragged ourselves back to the B&B to wrap up a fun and tiring evening.