Patricia Arquette, Lulu Wang, Finn Wolfhard and More Attend Variety and Chanel’s Female Filmmakers Dinner at Toronto Film Festival
variety.comRebecca Rubin Film and Media Reporter Patricia Arquette, Lulu Wang, Finn Wolfhard, Barry Jenkins, Camila Morrone, Willem Dafoe and Colman Domingo mixed and mingled at Variety and Chanel’s annual female filmmaker dinner during the Toronto Film Festival.
At the glamorous event, held on Saturday night at Soho House and hosted by Variety co-editor-in-chief Ramin Setoodeh, VIP attendees nibbled on tuna tartare, striploin steak and heirloom tomato salad as they toasted the recipients of Chanel’s Women Writers’ Network.
The year-round program is designed to advance the careers of women and non-binary alumni of the TIFF Writers’ Studio. “Welcome to the most exclusive event of the Toronto Film Festival,” Setoodeh said. “This is one of our favorite events to host.” He added that Chanel and Variety had partnered since 2018 in celebrating female filmmakers at TIFF.
Inside the room, Arquette and Dafoe posed for pictures as “Dumb Money” screenwriters Lauren Schuker Blum and Rebecca Angelo sipped on espresso martinis. “We haven’t slept!” they said in unison, coyly adding their cocktails were off the menu.
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