TORONTO -- Hollywood producer Lionel Chetwynd (The Hanoi Hilton), Fox Reality Channel COO and general manager David Lyle, and Canadian filmmakers Patricia Rozema (Mansfield Park) and Peter Raymont (Shake Hands With the Devil) are to top-line the master class sessions at the upcoming Banff World Television Festival, organizers said Wednesday. Also leading classes in Banff are directors Jon Cassar (La Femme Nikita, 24) and Jeremy Podeswa (The L Word). The Banff World Television Festival, an annual meeting place of TV producers, buyers and financiers, will take place June 12-15 in the Canadian Rockies.
TORONTO -- The Banff World Television Festival on Tuesday named former Canadian Lt. Gen. Romeo Dallaire, the commander of an ill-fated 1994 U.N. peacekeeping mission in Rwanda, its keynote speaker. Dallaire, who was played by Nick Nolte in the film Hotel Rwanda, will address Banff delegates June 13. His speech will be followed a day later by a dialogue with Peter Raymont, director of the Sundance award-winning documentary Shake Hands With the Devil: The Journey of Romeo Dallaire. The Banff World Television Festival, an annual gathering of international TV executives and producers, runs June 12?15 in the Canadian Rockies.
- 3/16/2005
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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