Aug 21, 2026 · 1 hr 12 min · 12 segments
On this episode, Dillon and Jake preview this year's TIFF lineup. Special thanks to Courtney for our lovely show graphics and to Whitney for running our social media. TIFF titles on Dillon's agenda…
as far as like film festivals go, like out of the, the major, you know, the, like the Mount Rushmore of film festivals that we cover Tiff really does feel like they are a tastemaker and they really do kind of set up the rest of the year extremely well.
Um, So this runs from September 10th through the 20th.
And I think once it's over, we're going to have a really good idea about the rest of the year.
And then there's going to be some other stuff that gets released as time goes on.
Yeah, yeah.
I think that they are in that launching pad to see whether or not the films that were on the Golden Derby for your awards season, if they're actually going to have the legs to do that race or whatnot.
But also it is a tastemaker.
This is obviously where the gold darlin'.
of obsession began last year was at tip shout her out i mean like and i generally think about that theater experience all the time especially with the way that that movie progressed um and all that stuff uh and like obviously it's massive royalties that came because i remember being in the theater and being like well we hope you like your movie you know you know we weren't isn't that the fun part of
the film festival circuit where you've got people who are just like they're again they're a little i don't want to say scared but they're just kind of like okay This is it.
We made YouTube movies before this.
So we hope you like our movie.
We had a little bit more money.
But he even said, like, we were hoping this would be a Shudder film and we wouldn't have to put this on YouTube and just make even, you know? Like, we were hoping that at the...
Like, we were open to being a streaming movie.
And then maybe after that...
I mean, that's just the business of independent films at this point.
So that's not a knock on them.
And now look at it now.
Look at it now.
I
know.
as far as like film festivals go, like out of the, the major, you know, the, like the Mount Rushmore of film festivals that we cover Tiff really does feel like they are a tastemaker and they really do kind of set up the rest of the year extremely well.
Um, So this runs from September 10th through the 20th.
And I think once it's over, we're going to have a really good idea about the rest of the year.
And then there's going to be some other stuff that gets released as time goes on.
Yeah, yeah.
I think that they are in that launching pad to see whether or not the films that were on the Golden Derby for your awards season, if they're actually going to have the legs to do that race or whatnot.
But also it is a tastemaker.
This is obviously where the gold darlin'.
of obsession began last year was at tip shout her out i mean like and i generally think about that theater experience all the time especially with the way that that movie progressed um and all that stuff uh and like obviously it's massive royalties that came because i remember being in the theater and being like well we hope you like your movie you know you know we weren't isn't that the fun part of
the film festival circuit where you've got people who are just like they're again they're a little i don't want to say scared but they're just kind of like okay This is it.
We made YouTube movies before this.
So we hope you like our movie.
We had a little bit more money.
But he even said, like, we were hoping this would be a Shudder film and we wouldn't have to put this on YouTube and just make even, you know? Like, we were hoping that at the...
Like, we were open to being a streaming movie.
And then maybe after that...
I mean, that's just the business of independent films at this point.
So that's not a knock on them.
And now look at it now.
Look at it now.
I
know.
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