Tiff 2013: Festival to Screen World Premiere of Steve McQueen’s 12 YEARS A SLAVE

Later today, the Toronto International Film Festival will be holding a press conference where the galas and special presentations will be announced for this year’s fest.  As a quick teaser, Artistic Director Cameron Bailey announced via Twitter that Steve McQueen‘s upcoming 12 Years a Slave will be making its world premiere at the festival.  Stay tuned for the rest of the announcements later today after the press conference ends. To check out the event for yourself, head over to live.tiff.net at 9:00am EST.

12 Years a Slave stars Chiwetel Ejiofor,  Michael Fassbender, Brad Pitt, Paul Giamatti, Benedict Cumberbatch, Paul Dano, Sarah Paulson, Alfre Woodard, Dwight Henry, Quvenzhane Wallis, Lupita Nyongo, Scoot McNairy, Michael Kenneth Williams and Garret Dillahunt.

Honoured that #TIFF13 will world premiere Steve McQueen's TWELVE YEARS A SLAVE: http://t.co/GaSkRhJfUs. See This Film.

— Cameron Bailey (@cameron_tiff) July 23, 2013