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After a few years away, showrunner and co-creator Dean Devlin is playing in the magical sandbox again with 'The Librarians: The Next Chapter
Dean Devlin Brings Magic with âThe Librarians: The Next Chapterâ
 Danielle Solzman
 May 25, 2025

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TORONTO | Correction: Film-Toronto Film Festival-Critic Diversity
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TORONTO | Correction: Film-Toronto Film Festival-Critic Diversity
TORONTO â In a story Sept. 6 about Torontoâs program for increasing critic diversity, The Associated Press misspelled the name of writer Danielle Solzman. A corrected version of the story is below:
As curtain goes up in Toronto, new faces fill audiences As the curtain goes up on the Toronto International Film Festival, a new media diversity program is filling audiences with new faces By JAKE COYLE
AP Film Writer TORONTO (AP) â The Toronto International Film Festival prides itself on offering a diverse array of stories. This year, North Americaâs largest film festival is also making sure that the media that covers its films is diverse, too.
Some 180 journalists and critics from underrepresented groups were granted credentials to the film festival, and many had their travel and accommodations paid for. When the Toronto Film Festival got underway Thursday with the opening night premiere of David Mackenzieâs Robert the Bruce epic âOutlaw King,â some of its most excited attendees were the journalists making their first foray to one of the fall festival circuitâs premiere destinations.
âI think mostly what Iâm looking for is otherness,â said Joelle Monique, a Los Angeles-based freelance writer. âIâm a black queer woman. If you can check any of those marks in your film and youâre exploring those stories in detail, Iâm interested in hearing what you have to say.â
Monique, who has once before been to TIFF and got her start writing for the website Black Girl Nerds, raised more than $1,000 through crowd funding to get her to Toronto. The festival reached out to her with an invitation and an offer of help.
âIâm just thrilled to have a place,â she said.
Toronto, along with the Sundance Film Festival, launched a âmedia inclusion initiativeâ in response to a study released in June by the University of Southern Californiaâs Annenberg Inclusion Initiative. It found that of the 19,559 reviews on Rotten Tomatoes for the top 100 box-office performers in 2017, 78 percent of reviews were written by male critics and 82 percent were by white critics. While unsurprising to many in the industry, the study put renewed focus on the homogeneous industry of film criticism at a time when Hollywoodâs poor inclusivity record is being scrutinized.
To diversify its press corps, TIFF reached contacted freelance writers and videographers, and it began asking all journalists, if they chose to, to provide their sexuality and ethnicity.
âItâs been a success,â said festival co-head Cameron Bailey of the program. âWe had a target of about 20 percent in terms of increasing the overall size of our press corps. Those journalists are coming from underrepresented groups: women, people of color, LGBTQ journalists and journalists with disabilities. Weâve had support from a number of companies and organizations in the industry who wanted to help us bring those journalists to town.â
Those corporate partners in the initiative include Rotten Tomatoes which provided a grant of $25,000. In response to the USC study, the review aggregation website has revamped its critics criteria to open itself to wider pool of critics.
For Bailey, the makeup of Torontoâs press corps is important because media response at the festival has such a sizable effect for countless films, whether theyâre Oscar contenders or less heralded movies that get overlooked.
Yolanda Machado, also a Los Angeles-based film writer, believes that the response to âLa La Landâ â which saw its awards hype go into overdrive in Toronto â might have been less glowing had there been more in the audience like herself.
âIâm a native Angelo, born and raised here. For a city thatâs populated with over five million Latino, why did I not see one?â said Machado of the film. ââLa La Landâ I donât think it would have been the same had a diverse group of critics been there in the first place.â
Machado, who began writing about movies as a parenting blogger but has long loved movies (âI grew up in LA. Itâs kind of in the blood.â) is making her first trip to Toronto after the festival contacted her several months ago.
âIâm extremely honored that I even got invited,â she says. âItâs really going to open up a lot of doors for a lot of people.â
Chicago-based writer Danielle Solzman, who identifies as a transgender woman, has often turned to crowdfunding to get to festivals. For her, things might have also been different for awards favorites like âThe Danish Girlâ or âDallas Buyers Clubâ â which both won acclaim in Toronto but starred male actors in trans roles â had more trans critics been in attendance.
One movie Solzman wonât be seeing in Toronto is Lukas Dhontâs âGirl,â which stars a male actor (Victor Polster) as a 16-year-old ballerina awaiting her gender-confirmation surgery.
âI will not see that film. I am done watching cisgender actors in transgender roles,â says Solzman. âIt just makes me angry. It makes my blood boil.â
Solzman, though, applauds TIFFâs program for underrepresented journalists.
âA lot of people that I know are freelance, and if TIFF didnât offer them money, there would be no way to get them to Toronto,â she said. âThen youâd just be looking at the same straight white cisgender males providing the majority of the coverage.â
By Associated Press