Toronto slates environmental docus

July 29, 2008 The Toronto International Film Festival will go green in September with world premieres for Robert Kenner's "Food, Inc." and Dan Stone's "At the Edge of the World," a profile of Canadian eco-warrior Paul Watson's fight with Japanese whaling vessels in the Antarctica Sea. Toronto also has booked a North American premiere for German filmmaker Ben Kempas' "Upstream Battle," a look at a Northern California water battle by American Indians of the Hoopa tribe. Of the 26 documentaries unveiled by Toronto programmers Tuesday, 14 hail from the U.S., underlining increasing equity financing and other private investment in American documentaries, according to Thom Powers, the festival's documentary programmer.

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