Guillermo Del Toro Introduces ‘The Boy and the Heron’ to Open Toronto Film Festival

With Hollywood stars skipping TIFF's red carpet due to dual strikes complications, it was left to the 'Pinocchio' director to praise Hayao Miyazaki and his epic feature as it premiered outside of Japan.

“He may be the greatest director of animation ever,” the Pinocchio director said as he compared Miyazaki to Van Gogh and Mozart as an artistic genius. “You are lucky to be able to see for the first time,” outside Japan, del Toro added.

And in a year where Toronto’s dependence on American celebrities for glitz and glamour was underlined by their absence from the first-night gala ceremony, Duncan Crabtree-Ireland, national executive director and chief negotiator for

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