Party photos of the week: Reel Artists Film Festival
The arts were alive in Toronto on Wednesday night as collectors, enthusiasts and artists celebrated the opening night of the eighth annual Canadian Art Reel Artists Film Festival. The festival, which runs until Sunday, showcases 17 films on contemporary visual artists - including the queen of text as art, Jenny Holzer - with screenings at the TIFF Bell Lightbox. The bespectacled Katherine Knight and Canadian painter Wanda Koop garnered the most flash-worthy embrace of the evening as the director and subject of the opening night film, KOOP. Other members of the arts community who showed their support included contemporary art mistress Sue Kidd, Canadian Art Foundation board member Kim Bozak and Toronto Art Council's William Huffman.
Amy Burstyn (left) and Tatiana Read
Festival co-chair Jennen Phelan
Laura Kwashka (left) and Victoria Radford
Wanda Koop (left) and director Katherine Knight
Lindsay Perry (left) and Laura Kwashka
Alex Clarke and Greg Hourigan
Reel Artists Film Festival founder Ann Webb
Carly Hourigan and Mateo Roden
Matthew Coorsh and Elisa Salvatore
Andrea Carson
Elena Potter (left) and Emma Cottreau
Wayne Baguley (left) and Peter Hicks
Don Schmitt and Kim Bozak
Marshall Webb and Sue Kidd
Larry and Marla Wasser