OK, let’s get real, it’s not a new Snoop Dogg film per se, but one Cordazar Calvin Broadus (Snoop’s birth name) is co–starring in a new film titled, “Down for Life,” with Danny Glover that will make its world premiere at the 2009 Toronto International Film Festival.
The film is a Latino gang drama by director Alan Jacobs (no discernible offhand credits) and is based off a New York Times article.
Eleven new films have been added. And surprising many of us by returning so quickly (and so secretively) is controversial American provacateur, Harmony Korine, who follows up his 2008 picture about a Michael Jackson impersonator, “Mister Lonely,” with a new down n’ dirty, lo-fi project, “Trash Humpers” which is evidently described as “handheld video of a loser-gang cult-freak collective who do antisocial things in a non-narrative way, except for the song-and-dance numbers.”
Uhh, color us stoked? Sounds wonderfully bizarre.
Other films added to the TIFF line-up include the Thai omnibus film “Sawasdee Bangkok” directed by four different filmmakers including Pen-ek Ratanaruang who already has “Nymph” (one of our most anticipated films from Cannes that we missed), playing at the festival. More films listed here: [Variety/IndieWire]