The 'Ammonite' star, Anthony Hopkins, Mira Nair and other TIFF Tribute Award winners gathered from their homes for a virtual press conference as the pandemic forces festivals mostly online.
Heavenly Creatures"I remember this remarkable moment of sitting and watching the film with an audience and it was almost as if in that moment the penny dropped and I thought, oh my God, I'm really in a film. It wasn't just something that I made in New Zealand," Winslet said of her first big screen film festival appearance.
Then two days later, on Sept. 11, 2001, as a deadly terror attack hit the U.S., an early morning press and industry screening forwas just wrapping up in Toronto, Nair added."People came dancing out of the theater and the world had changed in the space of two hours. It was actually cataclysmic. We all came together and stayed together, however great and small, so it was bewildering and comforting and confusing," she recounted.
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