Thursday, September 06, 2007

Filmfest diary 1.01: Sponsored by VISA

The reason that I had planned two stints in the Greater Toronto Area was because the Roger Waters, which was on my birthday, and the Toronto International Film Festival, which starts tomorrow, were not close enough to each other to warrant a single stay. This worked out well in terms of the extra travel I got to do in the eastern provinces, but had the unfortunate side-effect of not being able to get advanced ticket packages for the film festival. This was completely my mistake, and it stemmed from a significant lack of research.

You see, one of the major sponsors of TIFF is VISA, the credit card company. This meant that all credit card sales (and therefore all sales through the Internet and by phone) had to be done using a VISA card, and not any other type of credit card. Since I only have a MasterCard, I had to make all my purchases in person. I only arrived back in Toronto a few days ago, so I missed out on the ticket packages, and had to line up in the wee hours of this morning to get advanced tickets for each individual screening (as opposed to having the option to fill out an advanced order form). In fact, I will suffer a similar fate for the Vancouver International Film Festival, as I will be getting into Vancouver about a week or two after the ticket packages go on sale.

Anyway, after getting up at 5, walking in light rain, and eventually making it to the box office at 7 (right when tickets went on sales), and lining up for about two hours, I did manage to score a ticket to the following 10 films throughout the next 10 days (in screening order):

:: Adrian Pua :: 03:00

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