Echo Chamber - TIFF 2024 - Vol 1 (Paying For It)

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For the first time ever @EchoChamberFP https://www.instagram.com/echochamberfp/ goes to TIFF!!!

Well, this is essentially a quick drive through of the 49th Toronto International Film Festival, BUT, it's all thanks to Cynthia Amsden!!!

For our opening salvo, we take a look at a new film that exudes Toronto, while looking at the intricacies of relationships and sex work. THEN, we sit down with the director/writer and two of the stars for an incredible confab that will have you clambering to get a ticket for the film!!! Watch the conversation: HERE! https://youtu.be/ATWcPVNBj6Y

'Paying For It' is directed by Sook-Yin Lee, who co-wrote with Joanne Sarazen. Based on the graphic novel of the same name by Chester Brown. When an introverted cartoonist’s girlfriend (Emily Lê) wants to redefine their relationship, he (Dan Beirne) begins sleeping with sex workers (Andrea Werhun, Hannia Cheng, Jamie Whitecrow, Lisa Smolkin, Lea Rose Sebastianis, Dusty Lee, Becky Johnson, Kitoko Mai, Tanya Cheex, Dainty Smith, Becca Willow Moss, Kaitlyn Chalmers-Rizzato) and discovers a new kind of intimacy in the process.

Today we have:

Paying For It

Watch Review: Here. https://youtu.be/4GxvSXZjtIE

2024 Toronto International Film Festival

Friday 6th September 2024 at 21:30, World Premiere

TIFF Lightbox Cinema 2

Buy Tickets: Here. https://www.ticketmaster.ca/event/1000610D29B85284

Saturday 7th September 2024 at 11:45

TIFF Lightbox Cinema 3

Buy Tickets: Here. https://www.ticketmaster.ca/event/1000610F081C5C86

Director: Sook-Yin Lee

Cast: Dan Beirne, Emily Lê, Andrea Werhun, Noah Lamanna, Chris Sandiford, Rebecca Applebaum, Ely Henry, Ehren Kassam, Stephen Thomas Kalyn, Ishan Davé, Sabrina Saudin, Hannia Cheng, Jamie Whitecrow, Lisa Smolkin, Lea Rose Sebastianis, Dusty Lee, Becky Johnson, Kitoko Mai, Tanya Cheex, Dainty Smith, Becca Willow Moss, Kaitlyn Chalmers-Rizzato, Dot Starkey, Lisa Smolkin, Kris Siddiqi, Rubie Magnitude, Rodrigo Fernandez-Stoll, Willow Astbury, VYPERS

Credit: Wilding Pictures, Hawkeye Pictures, Telefilm Canada, Ontario Creates, Bell Media's Crave, CBC Films

Genre: Comedy, Drama

Running Time: 85 min

Cert: 15

Website: Here. https://www.payingforitfilm.com/

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*(Music)

'Give The People' (Instrumental) by EPMD - 2020