To mark the release of the American master’s highly anticipated new film The Irishman, TIFF presents the first-ever TIFF Cinematheque retrospective of a filmmaker whose entire oeuvre constitutes “one of the source points of modern movies” (Roger Ebert).
I was tasked with creating the trailer, supporting ads for social media, and supporting content for our YouTube channel and other social platforms.
November 2019
For the in-cinema trailer promoting the retrospective I dug into some of the most iconic moments and images from Scorsese’s incredible back catalogue. I also prepared a special surround sound remix of The Rolling Stones “Gimme Shelter”, a track that has become synonymous with Scorsese’s work.
Client: Toronto International Film Festival
Producer/Editor: Adam Schoales
To promote the series online I created a series of three social ads: the first tailored to the retrospective as a whole, the other two tailored to two of Scorsese’s frequent collaborators (and Hollywood legends in their own right); Leonardo DiCaprio and Robert DeNiro.
While visiting TIFF 2019 to screen his new documentary, Citizen K, I had the chance to interview Alex Gibney and discuss what makes Martin Scorsese such a brilliant filmmaker, as well as his favourite of the Scorsese films, GoodFellas.
Also during TIFF 2019, filmmaker Bong Joon-ho stopped by Studio 9 to discuss his new film, Parasite, and we took this opportunity to ask the master filmmaker about his favourite Scorsese films.
In support of our limited theatrical run of Taxi Driver, I dug into the TIFF archives and created this short piece with screenwriter Paul Schrader discussing the origins of Taxi Driver.