TIFF has a splendid party right off Lake Ontario for opening night, but some non-Toronto fest programmers (and such) decided to sit this one out and go French at Pastis in Toronto's Midtown. One of iW's favorite cuties in the middle (you guess which one) organized the dinner, and the restaurant kept the wine flowing (non-gratis mind you!) Left to right: A&E Indie's Molly Thompson, Submarine's Harry Geller and the company's head, Josh Braun, iW co-founder Mark Rabinowitz (at TIFF for AOL U.K.), A&E Indie's Ryan Harrington, Silverdoc's Skye Sitney, director Amir Bar-Lev (at TIFF with "My Kid Could Paint That"), the Sarasota Film Festival's Holly Herrick and Jen Weiss and programming guru Tom Hall, True/False Film Festival co-founder David Wilson, NewFest's head bitch Basil Tsiokos, Variety's newbee Mike Jones (and oh he's missed here at iW), and Toronto producer Kathleen Maitland-Carter... whew! what an I.D. job! Anyway, we hope this is a new pre-festival tradition, but for those of us without expense accounts maybe we can just bring it down a notch? Whatever, good times!