QUOTED: TIFF programmer Thom Powers explains how the Boss led to Bono

Everybody was excited and happy about what we did with Bruce [Springsteen]. Certainly, it was in our minds afterwards that it’d be great to do something like that again—but it also showed people in the music business that the festival is a way to make an impression not just in the music world, but in the film world and the world of pop culture.

— TIFF documentary programmer Thom Powers on this year’s music-heavy lineup [The Wrap]