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Piers Handling Featured at Rotman School Integrative Thinking Series
TORONTO, January 30, 2002 -- Piers Handling, director of the Toronto International Film Festival Group, will be the featured speaker in the fifth session of the Rotman Integrative Thinking Series offered at the University of Toronto's Joseph L. Rotman School of Management. What? Rotman Integrative Thinking Seminar Series with Piers Handling, Director of the Toronto International Film Festival Group When? Thursday March 7, 2002 5:00 - 7:00 pm Where? Fleck Atrium, Joseph L. Rotman School of Management,105 St. George Street, Toronto, Ontario Media? To attend please contact Ken McGuffin, 416.946.3818 or mcguffin@rotman.utoronto.ca The Rotman School offers the Rotman Integrative Thinking Seminar Series to educate its graduate and doctoral students, faculty, alumni and the rest of the business community and to showcase leading integrative thinkers. Solving complex problems and making robust decisions in a turbulent business environment requires integrative thinking skills. In addition to having knowledge of specific functional disciplines, we believe that business leaders need to develop the ability to create mental linkages to understand the disciplines together. Through innovative research and with leading faculty, the Rotman School is developing and implementing the world's first curriculum for teaching integrative thinking. Piers Handling is the Director of the Toronto International Film Festival Group. He was born in Calgary and educated in Canada and Germany. Handling graduated from Queen's University, Kingston with a degree in History and Philosophy. He worked at the Canadian Film Institute (CFI) for a decade and reached the position of Deputy Director. After leaving the CFI, he taught Canadian Cinema at Carleton University in Ottawa and Queen's University. Handling joined the Festival as a programmer in 1982, becoming Programming Director five years later, Deputy Director in 1990, Artistic Director in 1993, and Festival Director in 1994. In fact, Handling has attended or worked at 22 of the past 24 Festivals. In his nineteen years at the Festival, Handling has organized numerous programmes and retrospectives including major retrospectives of Canadian, Latin American, Italian, Polish, Portuguese, and Hungarian cinema, and was one of the co-founders of Perspective Canada. He organized the first major retrospective of the films of David Cronenberg in 1983 and edited a book to accompany the programme. Additionally, Handling has organized programmes featuring the works of Krzysztof Kielowski, Aki and Mika Kaurismäki, Pedro Almodóvar, Ken Loach, Nanni Moretti, and Manoel de Oliveira. He has also organized retrospectives of Canadian cinema for the Sundance Film Festival and festivals in Havana, London, and Washington, D.C. Handling has written extensively on Canadian cinema and has been published in numerous film journals. His publications include "The Films of Don Shebib" and "The Shape of Rage: The Films of David Cronenberg"; he has also commissioned books on Jean Pierre Lefebvre, Norman McLaren, Richard Leiterman, and the National Film Board of Canada. In 1998, Handling was awarded the "Chevalier des Arts et Lettres", France's highest cultural insignia. In late 2001 he was named to Entertainment Weekly magazine's "Power List 2001", a listing of the entertainment industry's 100 most powerful people. In addition to his responsibilities at the Toronto Film Festival, Handling also sits on the Board of Directors of the Canadian Film Centre, The AV Preservation Trust.ca, and Tafelmusik. For more information on this and other upcoming events at the Rotman School, please visit the Rotman School's event page at www.rotman.utoronto.ca/news/events.htm. -30- -30-
For further information, please contact:
Ken McGuffin
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