Montreal flexes muscles, kicks off with 'Bluff'

August 24, 2007 WFF founder and president Serge Losique, having seen his festival endure a near-death experience two years ago when key government subsidies were pulled, was triumphant on opening night in the wake of the recent restoration of public funding for the event. "Who says I'm back from the dead? I never went away," Losique said just before walking the red carpet outside the Theatre Maisonneuve with French actress Sophie Marceau at his side. Two U.S. titles, Mark Brokaw's "Spinning Into Butter," a New England college-set drama starring Sarah Jessica Parker and Miranda Richardson, and Christopher Cain's historical epic "Dawn," are among those competing for the Grand Prize of the Americas.

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