#artist: Melanie La Barrie

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INFP Music Collaboration Project: Complete!

The INFP Collaboration Playlist Project is now complete! 

In total we had about 200 songs submitted and that completely blew me away! Thank you all so much for participating, I had no idea that it would get this many responses! 

Thank you especially to @rokokokokolores,  @stillnotknowing, @anypassingthought, @2nerd4this, @sonsoftie, @aseratreasures, @infp-relatable, @lunagirl0013, @idunno-justpicksomething, and @namhamjoon (please let me know if I accidentally forgot to tag you)

These are just the participants who were okay with being named but also thank you to all of the anonymous participants!

Here’s the final playlist from everyone’s suggestions, including some of mine that I threw in even though some of you beat me to the punch for a few songs.

Here is the INFP Music Collaboration Project!

Spotify Link: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/2F8xgXYEKiJSBOo7g8IvON

I was thinking of doing another one of these in the future but just make up my own prompts and put them all in one form and leave it open for a while or forever and just update the playlist twice a month or something like that. If you have ideas, just drop a comment or an ask if you want it to be anonymous. 

For those who want to know what the playlist turned out to be, here’s the list of songs with their categories below this break:

PROMPT #01: A SONG YOU LIKE WITH A COLOR IN THE TITLE

Silver Dagger - Live at Cecil Sharp House - The Staves

Today I Sing the Blues - Aretha Franklin

Pink Moon - Nick Drake

White Flag - Joseph

Black Swan - BTS

Indigo - Origa

Everything Black - Unlike Pluto

Red Sun - DREAMCATCHER

Yellow Lights - Harry Hudson

Red Hill Mining Town - U2

PROMPT #02: A SONG YOU LIKE WITH A NUMBER IN THE TITLE

.stage 4 fear of trying. - Frank Iero

Symphony No.5 In B-Flat, Op.100: 2. Allegro marcato - Sergei Prokofiev

One More Time with Feeling - Regina Spektor

100 Bad Days - AJR

R.I.P. 2 My Youth - The Neighbourhood

+THNX190519+ - CL

100 Ways - Jackson Wang

Day 1 â—‘ - HONNE

18 - Anarbor

Two - Sleeping At Last

Three Tree Town - Ben Howard

PROMPT #03: A SONG THAT REMINDS YOU OF SUMMERTIME

Fumes - EDEN

Summertime Sadness - Lana Del Rey

T-Shirt Weather - Circa Waves

ME! (feat. Brendon Urie of Panic! At The Disco) - Taylor Swift

Dream - Priscilla Ahn

Carnival Hearts - Kayla Diamond

Yam Yam - No Vacation

Motivation - Normani

Wake Me Up - Avicii

PROMPT #04: A SONG THAT REMINDS YOU OF SOMEONE YOU'D RATHER FORGET

Alligator Alley - Michael Daugherty

Because of You - Kelly Clarkson

Sincerely, Me - Mike Faist

Cheerleader - OMI

Viva La Vida - Coldplay

Supermassive Black Hole - Muse

Over You - Ingrid Michaelson

PROMPT #05: A SONG THAT NEEDS TO BE PLAYED LOUD

Shine A Little Light - The Black Keys

Dynamite - BTS

Prelude in E-flat minor - Dmitri Shostakovich

Sick of Myself - Matthew Sweet

Salute - Little Mix

Smother - Daughter

Ship To Wreck - Florence + The Machine

I Am The Best - 2NE1

Baba O'Riley - The Who

Mr. Brightside - The Killers

King - Years & Years

I Wanna Dance with Somebody (Who Loves Me) - Whitney Houston

I'm Coming Out - Diana Ross

PROMPT #06: A SONG THAT MAKES YOU WANT TO DANCE

Rain - MIKA

My Songs Know What You Did In The Dark (Light Em Up) - Fall Out Boy

Jump in the Line - Harry Belafonte

We Are the Tide - Blind Pilot

I'm A Believer - Radio Edit - Smash Mouth

PROMPT #07: A SONG TO DRIVE TO

So Much More Than This - Grace VanderWaal

Open Road - Lost & Found Music Studios

Vasoline - Stone Temple Pilots

Walk in the Night - Kaori Kobayashi*

Fáinleog - Live - The Gloaming

I'm Gonna Be (500 Miles) - The Proclaimers

Kiss - Prince

Olalla - Blanco White

Sweater Weather - The Neighbourhood

PROMPT #08: A SONG ABOUT DRUGS OR ALCOHOL

Whiskey and Morphine - Alexander Jean

Meds - Placebo

High - Sir Sly

June - Florence + The Machine

Here's to Never Growing Up - Avril Lavigne

Void - The Neighbourhood

Clouds - BøRNS

PROMPT #09: A SONG THAT MAKES YOU HAPPY

Love Wins - Carrie Underwood

Shukumei - Official HIGE DANdism

Boy With Luv (feat. Halsey) - BTS

The Man Who Can't Be Moved - The Script

Love Come Down - Kalafina

Here Comes The Sun - Remastered 2009 - The Beatles

You Are the Best Thing - Ray LaMontagne

Pokemon Theme Song - The Breaking Winds Bassoon Quartet

PROMPT #10: A SONG THAT MAKES YOU SAD

Someday - From "The Hunchback of Notre Dame"/Soundtrack Version - All-4-One

How We Love - Ingrid Michaelson

Everything You Ever - Neil Patrick Harris

Bluebird - Sara Bareilles

The Christmas Shoes - Newsong

Amen - Amber Run

Empty - Ray LaMontagne

In Dreams - Roy Orbison

The Beach - The Neighbourhood

PROMPT #11: A SONG YOU NEVER GET TIRED OF

Kimi Ga Hikari Ni Kaeteiku - Kalafina

Memories - Maroon 5

No Choir - Florence + The Machine

Should I Stay or Should I Go - Remastered - The Clash

Love On Top - Beyonce

Keep Your Head Up - Ben Howard

PROMPT #12: A SONG FROM YOUR PRETEEN YEARS

Fight Song - Rachel Platten

Samson - Regina Spektor

One More Sad Song - The All-American Rejects

No One - Alicia Keys

Poison Prince - Amy Macdonald

Love Story - Taylor Swift

7 Things - Single Version - Miley Cyrus

Rude - MAGIC!

Bohemian Rhapsody - Queen

PROMPT #13: A SONG YOU LIKE FROM 70s

Lean on Me - Bill Withers

Cat's in the Cradle - Harry Chapin

More Than a Feeling - Boston

Killing Me Softly - Frank Sinatra* 

PROMPT #14: A SONG YOU'D LOVE TO BE PLAYED AT YOUR WEDDING

How Sweet It Is - Michael Buble

This Will Be (An Everlasting Love) - Natalie Cole

I'm A Believer - Radio Edit - Smash Mouth

Hold You in My Arms - Ray LaMontagne

Never Stop (Wedding Version) - SafetySuit

PROMPT #15: A SONG YOU LIKE THAT'S A COVER BY ANOTHER ARTIST

Skinny Love - Birdy

That's the Way It Is - Cassidy Janson

Angel - Darren Hayes

Titanium - Madilyn Bailey

There Must Be An Angel - ORIGA*

Mr. Tambourine Man - The Helio Sequence

Rude - Scott Bradlee's Postmodern Jukebox

Bad Guy - The Interrupters

PROMPT #16: A SONG THAT'S A CLASSIC FAVORITE 

Africa - TOTO

Beautifully - Jay Brannan

Creep - Radiohead

Cupid - Sam Cooke

Your Favorite Thing - Sugar

Livin' On A Prayer - Bon Jovi

I Will Always Love You - Whitney Houston

PROMPT #17: A SONG YOU'D SING A DUET WITH SOMEONE ON KARAOKE

For Good - From "Wicked" Original Broadway Cast Recording/2003 - Kristin Chenoweth

Take Me or Leave Me - Idina Menzel

Something To Believe In - Jeremy Jordan

Dancing with the Devil - Wolf Gang

Holding Out for a Hero - From "Footloose" Soundtrack - Bonnie Tyler

PROMPT #18: A SONG FROM THE YEAR YOU WERE BORN

A Thousand Miles - Vanessa Carlton

Drops of Jupiter (Tell Me) - Train

Waterfalls - TLC

Good Riddance (Time of Your Life) - Green Day

Wannabe - Spice Girls

PROMPT #19: A SONG THAT MAKES YOU THINK ABOUT LIFE

Memories - Maroon 5

Men Of Snow - Ingrid Michaelson

The River - Kyla La Grange

Saturn - Sleeping At Last

Landslide - Fleetwood Mac

The Fear - Ben Howard

Dog Days Are Over - Florence + The Machine

The Good Part - AJR

Build It Up - Ingrid Michaelson

PROMPT #20: A SONG THAT HAS MANY MEANINGS TO YOU 

Freckles - Natasha Bedingfield

Happy Home - Lukas Graham

Barely Breathing - Duncan Sheik

The Road - Hurts

Lost in My Mind - The Head and the Heart

Love Like You (feat. Rebecca Sugar) - End Credits - Steven Universe

PROMPT #21: A SONG YOU LIKE WITH A PERSON'S NAME IN THE TITLE

Esmeralda - The Hunchback of Notre Dame Company

West Side Story: Act I: Maria - Leonard Bernstein

Nina Cried Power (feat. Mavis Staples) - Hozier

Sweet Caroline - Neil Diamond

Roxie - Renae Zellweger

Grace - Florence + The Machine

PROMPT #22: A SONG THAT MOVES YOU FORWARD

Sukiyaki - Kyu Sakamoto

Fuckin' Perfect - Melanie La Barrie

Who's Got a Match? - Biffy Clyro

Into The Fire - Thirteen Senses

Bang The Doldrums - Fall Out Boy

I Was Here - Beyonce

PROMPT #23: A SONG YOU THINK EVERYBODY SHOULD LISTEN TO

Neon Gravestones - Twenty One Pilots

Danzon No.2 - Arturo Márquez

Most Girls - Hailee Steinfeld

(Finally) A Convenient Truth - Get Well Soon

Stand by Me - Otis Redding

PROMPT #24: A SONG BY A BAND YOU WISH WERE STILL TOGETHER

Such Great Heights - Remastered - The Postal Service

To the Beginning - Kalafina

Here Comes a Regular - 2008 Remaster - The Replacements

Night Rather Than Day - EXID

Wonderwall - Remastered - Oasis

PROMPT #25: A SONG YOU LIKE BY AN ARTIST NO LONGER LIVING

Waiting for the End - Linkin Park

All Along the Watchtower - Jimi Hendrix

Human Nature - Michael Jackson

The Longest Time - Billy Joel

Love, You Didn't Do Right by Me - Rosemary Clooney

Before Our Spring - JONGHYUN

PROMPT #26: A SONG THAT MAKES YOU WANT TO FALL IN LOVE

girls - girl in red

Conversations in the Dark - John Legend

Just like Heaven - The Cure

On The Street Where You Live - Frederick Loewe

Still into You - Paramore

PROMPT #27: A SONG THAT BREAKS YOUR HEART

Five Variants of "Dives and Lazarus" - Ralph Vaughan Williams

Black Woman - Danielle Brooks

Eyes Nose Lips (feat. Taeyang) - Epik High

Empty - Ray LaMontagne

Just a Dream - Carrie Underwood

Landslide - Fleetwood Mac

Requiem - Laura Dreyfuss

PROMPT #28: A SONG BY AN ARTIST WHOSE VOICE YOU LOVE

Hurt - Christina Aguilera

I'M OKAY - SAAY

So Much More Than This - Grace VanderWaal

Pretty Hurts - Beyonce

Just like Heaven - The Cure

i'm lonely - Luz

Skylark - Aretha Franklin

Never Let Me Go - Florence + The Machine

Ship To Wreck - Florence + The Machine

PROMPT #29: A SONG YOU REMEMBER FROM YOUR CHILDHOOD

Going Under - Evanescence

Muddy Hymnal - Iron & Wine

Rush - Aly & AJ

Smooth (feat. Rob Thomas) - Santana

Who Let The Dogs Out - Baha Men

She Looks So Perfect - 5 Seconds of Summer

PROMPT #30: A SONG THAT REMINDS YOU OF YOURSELF

Never Let Me Go - Florence + The Machine

Vienna - Billy Joel

The Pros and Cons of Breathing - Fall Out Boy

In Dreams - Roy Orbison

Car Radio - Twenty One Pilots

Sweet Nothing (feat. Florence Welch) - Calvin Harris

Lonely Dance - Set It Off

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Another Hundred People: Wicked (Black History Month Edition)

In honor of it being Black History Month, I wanted to try something new. I’m going to try, keyword try, to post at least once a day and celebrate different black artists in the theatre community whether it’s being cast in typically white roles or just all around sharing the amazingness of them. If I miss anyone please let me know and I will try and get that straightened out ASAP. And I’m just going to start out simple with Wicked.

1. Elphaba: Alexia Khadime (West End)/Brandi Chavonne Massey (Broadway u/s)/Dan'yelle Williamson (Chicago u/s)/Emmy Raver-Lampman (1st US Tour s/b)/Lilli Cooper (Broadway s/b, 2nd US Tour s/b, Australasian Tour s/b)/Saycon Sengbloh (Broadway s/b) 2: Fiyero: Clifton Oliver (Broadway u/s)/Derrick Williams (Broadway, 1st US Tour, Chicago, Los Angeles)/Taye Diggs (Broadway) 3. The Wizard: Ben Vereen (Broadway, Chicago)/Jay Laga’aia (Australasian Tour) 4. Madame Morrible: Celisse Henderson (1st US Tour u/s, San Francisco u/s)/Dioni Michelle Collins (Broadway u/s, Chicago u/s, Los Angeles u/s)/Melanie La Barrie (West End)/Myra Lucretia Taylor (1st US Tour)/Sheryl Lee Ralph (Broadway) 5. Boq: Idriss Kargbo (West End) 6. Dr. Dillamond: K. Todd Freeman (Broadway, 1st US Tour, Chicago)

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“The truth is that actors don’t really have any control earlier mentioned the end product. To think that you have control is a delusion and it’s also surprisingly frustrating to be investing that much hope into something that essentially boils down to marketing. So you try to do movies that you come to feel connected with and you work with directors and actors you admire.” Gabriel Byrne.

Originally desiring to be a priest but later was expelled from an English seminary, Gabriel Byrne then relocated to Ireland and did a string of odd jobs like a cook, a bullfighter, a teddy-bear-eye installer, an archaeologist and a Spanish and Gaelic teacher at a Catholic girls school. Meanwhile, he began participating in amateur theater and then joined with local theaters in Dublin, the Focus Theatre, an experimental repertory company run by future filmmaker Jim Sheridan, and the Abbey Theatre (for two years).

In 1965, Byrne won the regular role of Pat Barry in the long-running Irish soap opera “The Riordans” and reprised his role in its spin-off series “Bracken” (1978), which nabbed him a Jacob’s Awards for Best Actor in a TV Series – Drama. He also debuted in the British feature On a Paving Stone Mounted and was cast in the US-Netherlands drama co-production “The Outsider” (starring an aged Sterling Hayden).

Byrne headed to London in 1979 and signed up with the Royal Court and the National Theatre. He subsequently scored his very first significant role as Arthurâ€s father, Uther Pendragon, in John Boormanâ€s classic King Arthur epic based on Thomas Maloryâ€s book, Excalibur (1981, starring Nicol Williamson and Nigel Terry). Besides acting in the miniseries “The Search for Alexander the Great” (1981) and “Wagner” (1983), as well as the TV movie Joyce in June (1982), Byrne appeared in the 1983 films like Robert Biermanâ€s The Rocking Horse Winner, Constantin Costa-Gavras’ Hanna K. and Michael Mann’s The Keep.

After starring in Kevin Billingtonâ€s adaptation of John Banvilleâ€s novel, the romantic drama Reflections (1984), Byrne played the lead role of a young reporter for a British daily cleanspaper, Nicholas ‘Nick’ Mullen, in David Druryâ€s political thriller, Defense of the Realm (1985, costarring Greta Scacchi and Denholm Elliott). He then portrayed the title role of Christopher Columbus in the CBS-TV widely received miniseries with the same name and became Mussolini’s son Vittorio in the NBC miniseries “Mussolini: The Untold Story” (both in 1985).

Before moving to New York City, Byrne starred as Lord Byron in Ken Russell’s biopic drama Gothic (1986) and took home an International Fantasy Film Award for Best Actor. In the subsequent year, he landed roles as merciless slaver Black Prince in Franklin J. Schaffnerâ€s Lionheart: The Children’s Crusade (alongside Eric Stoltz) and as Kathleen Turnerâ€s husband in Peter Del Monteâ€s Italian drama Julia and Julia. He was also cast in films like Shelley Long supernatural comedy vehicle Hello Again (1987), Mary Lambertâ€s screen version of Patrice Chaplinâ€s novel, the ambitious thriller Siesta (also in 1987, opposite future wife Ellen Barkin) and Frank Deasyâ€s action The Courier (1988).

Larry Parr then handed him the leading role of a British soldier who is fighting in the trenches of France during World War II in his drama movie based on the novel by M.K. Joseph, A Soldier’s Tale (1988, costarring Marianne Basler) and Nick Broomfield gave him the starring role of Hugo, a heir to a fortune who is married to Amanda Donohoe, in his psychodrama film Diamond Skulls (1989).

In the early 1990s, Byrne became a cool-headed enigmatic organized crime lieutenant in the Coen brothers’ stylized feature Miller’s Crossing and was featured as a fierce pirate in Nils Gaupâ€s adaptation of O.V. Falck-Ytterâ€s book, Hakon Hakonsen (a.k.a. Shipwrecked). He then both assisted as associate producer and starred in Mike Newellâ€s Into the West (1992) and worked as executive producer in Jim Sheridanâ€s acclaimed movie In the Name of the Father (1993, starring Daniel Day-Lewis).

Byrne next portrayed a comic book artist who designed and then is seduced by Kim Basinger in Ralph Bakshi’s fusion of animation and live-action Cool World (1992) and played a government agent who trains Bridget Fonda’s convicted murderer to be a hired assassin in John Badham’s remake of French director Luc Besson’s La Femme Nikita, Point of No Return (1993). He also co-starred as an itinerant handyman in Stephen Gyllenhaal’s A Dangerous Woman (1993, with Debra Winger and Barbara Hershey) and landed featured roles in such films as All Things Bright and Beautiful, Royal Deceit, A Simple Twist of Fate, Trial by Jury, Little Women and Jim Jarmusch’s Dead Man.

Along with Kevin Spacey, Benicio Del Toro, Kevin Pollak and Stephen Baldwin, Byrne portrayed five career criminals in director Bryan Singer’s labyrinthine crime drama The Usual Suspects (1995). The sleep of the 1990s watched him acting in the heartwarming drama Frankie Starlight (1995, as a kindly Irish customs officer), Dr Hagard’s Disease (1996, also served as executive producer), Mad Dog Time (1996, with ex-wife Ellen Barkin) and Summer Fling (1996, also worked as co-executive producer and screenwriter). He also could be seen in Somebody Is Waiting (1996), Smilla’s Sense of Snow (1997, opposite Julia Ormond) and the drama The End of Violence (1997, as a surveillance expert). Behind the screen, Byrne made his directing debut with The Lark in The Clean Air (1996), which he also wrote and produced.

In the HBO comedy Weapons of Mass Distraction (1997) Byrne played a rival executives opposite Ben Kingsley. He followed it up with This Is the Sea (1997, alongside Richard Harris), Polish Wedding (1998, with Claire Danes and Lena Olin), The Man in the Iron Mask (1998) and the World War II romance The Brylcreem Boys (1998, also co-produced). Afterward, watch him acting in Tony Scott’s thriller Enemy of the State (1998, as a mysterious surveillance professional), Stigmata (1999, as a Vatican-sanctioned investigator) and the apocalyptical End of Days (1999, as the human incarnation of Satan, starring Arnold Schwarzenegger). Meanwhile, he hosted the “Saturday Night Live” in October 1995, co-wrote screenplay, co-executive produced and acted for the 1977-set teen romance Last of the High Kings, as well as lent his voice in the animated feature Quest for Camelot (1998). He also founded production company Plurabelle Films, named after Anna Livia Plurabelle, a character in James Joyce’s Finnegan’s Wake.

The new millennium saw Byrne received a Tony nomination as Actor in a Play after starring as James Tyrone, Jr. opposite Cherry Jones and Roy Dotrice in the phase revival of Eugene O’Neill’s “A Moon for the Misbegotten.” On the silver screen, he astonished moviegoers with his films like the 2000â€s Canone inverso – making love, When Brendan Met Trudy, Virginia’s Run and the 2002â€s independent feature Spider (as Ralph Finnes’ father), the crime drama Emmett’s Mark (helmed by Keith Snyder) and the spooky thriller Ghost Ship (as a salvaged vessel captain). He also worked as co-executive producer and co-starred with Dotrice in the ABC fall sitcom “Madigan Men”, which tells about three generations of Irish men living under one roof in New York and their romantic life. As for his production company, Plurabelle Films produced the Belfast-set coming of age comedy Mad About Mambo in 2000).

More recent, Byrne added to his acting resume such films as the poker hustlers film Shade (2003, opposite Sylvester Stallone and Melanie Griffith), Vanity Fair (2004), P.S. (2004), an adaptation of Thornton Wilder’s 1927 Pulitzer-prize winning novel The Bridge of San Luis Rey (2004, with Robert De Niro, Kathy Bates and Harvey Keitel) and Assault on Precinct 13 (2005). In the following years, he will still grace the screen in a lot of upcoming films, including Wah-Wah, Jindabyne, The Namesake, Leningrad and Played. In 1995, he published his autobiography, Pictures in My Head. He also has released another books, Myths & Tales Of Ancient Ireland and The Woman Who Danced With JFK.

As for Byrneâ€s most recent news, he reportedly co-Produces New York premiere of “The Blowin’ of Baile Gall” by Ronan Noone. It will be starred by Ato Essandoh (has appeared in the films Garden State and Hitch) and will bow at Irish Arts Center from early September to late October 2005.

“People who believe that being incredibly famous or wealthy or powerful is going to make them happier are on a fool’s mission. I’m famous enough, that suits me fine. The relentless emphasis on celebrity in this country drives me around the fucking bend. Everywhere you go. The new religion is celebrity, but nobody stops to question what it means when you achieve it. Honestly, I’m scared of the whole notion of fame. You take it on at your own peril.” Gabriel Byrne.

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Everything to Get Excited About at TIFF This Year

The Toronto International Film Festival unofficially marks the beginning of awards season mayhem. Held every year in early September, sandwiched between the end of ‘summer blockbuster season’ and the start of ‘prestige movie season,’ it’s viewed as one of the most reliable harbingers of Oscars buzz. As Vox explains: “The festival’s timing—just after Labour Day—positions it as the de facto opening of awards season, a marathon of mostly serious dramas that lasts about six months, until the Oscars finally wrap it all up in early March.” Given its weighty importance on the film circuit, the announcement of each year’s TIFF lineup is a Pretty Big Deal. Below, some of the things to look forward to this year.

Star power As usual, the TIFF red carpets are sure to be flooded with A-listers. We can expect to see Bradley Cooper and Lady Gaga, both starring in a remake of the iconic A Star Is Born films; Matthew McConaughey, who appears in White Boy Rick, a true story about a teenage drug kingpin in 1980s Detroit, along with Bel Powley and Jennifer Jason Leigh; and Robert Pattinson and Juliette Binoche, who star in High Life, a sci-fi film by French filmmaker Claire Denis about a group of criminals sent into outer space.

The chance for La La Land vs Moonlight Round 2 Both the directors at the heart of the infamous Oscars envelope snafu in 2017 are likely to be competing in the same awards categories next year too. Damien Chazelle is following up his smash hit La La Land with First Man, a biopic of Neil Armstrong starring Ryan Gosling, while Moonlight’s Barry Jenkins will be showcasing If Beale Street Could Talk, a film adaptation of James Baldwin’s 1974 novel about a young pregnant woman attempting to help exonerate her fiancé, in jail on a false rape charge, before the birth of their child.

Female-centric films There’s a slew of films with women at their core: Red Joan, a true story about one of the KGB’s longest-serving British spies, starring Judi Dench; Galveston, French actress/filmmaker Melanie Laurent’s English-language directorial debut starring Elle Fanning as a young prostitute and Ben Foster as a wounded hitman on the run; Widows, Steve McQueen’s follow-up to his 2013 Oscar-winning 12 Years A Slave, starring Viola Davis, Michelle Rodriguez, Elizabeth Debicki and Cynthia Erivo as four women left to finish a heist after their criminal husbands are all killed; and Girls Of The Sun, a war film that follows a battalion of women fighting to take back their homes from ISIS extremists in Iraqi Kurdistan.

Biopics In Can You Ever Forgive Me?, Melissa McCarthy takes a brief break from ruling the comedy game, starring in this true story about author Lee Israel, infamous for forging historical letters in the 1990s. Hugh Jackman takes on the role of US Senator Gary Hart in Jason Reitman’s The Front Runner.

Films addressing social issues The Hate U Give, starring Amandla Stenberg, Issa Rae, Common, and Riverdale’s KJ Apa, serves as a striking commentary on America’s culture of police brutality, following the story of a young woman whose friend is shot dead by police. Tackling the issues of substance abuse are two films starring two young breakout stars from awards seasons past: Timothee Chalamet and Lucas Hedges. The former stars in Beautiful Boy alongside Steve Carrell, while the latter appears in Ben Is Back as Julia Roberts’ son.

Canadian features Canadian wunderkind Xavier Dolan’s The Death and Life of John F. Donovan, starring Kit Harington, Jason Tremblay, Susan Sarandon and Natalie Portman, and The Hummingbird Project, a thriller directed by Kim Nguyen and starring Jesse Eisenberg, Salma Hayek and Alexander Skarsgård, are both slated to have their world premieres at the festival. Also of note is Gwaai Edenshaw and Helen Haig-Brown’s Edge of the Knife, the first feature-length film to be made in Haida, classified by UNESCO as an endangered language.

Documentaries In the nine-minute short Emptying the Tank, Caroline Monnet documents Chippewa female mixed martial artist Ashley Nichols’ dedication to both her health and her craft, while in Carmine Street Guitars, documentarian Ron Mann captures the allure of famed New York City guitar-maker Rick Kelly. Sharkwater Extinction, the final work by late filmmaker and conservationist Rob Stewart, is the follow-up to his 2006 documentary about shark conservation, Sharkwater, which resulted in shark finning being banned worldwide.

While other film festivals this year made headlines for the paucity of female-helmed films on their roster, TIFF’s artistic director Cameron Bailey told Variety that he expects roughly a third of the final selection of films this year to be by female directors. Films with strong social messages are a recurring theme this year too, and Bailey also stressed the importance of having programming and events that address and discuss the #MeToo and Time’s Up movements, particularly their impact on the global film industry.

“We want to keep the conversation going and to give people an opportunity to talk through what this all means,” said Bailey. “One of the most important things we can do is to really showcase films by women and to make sure that we have a lineup that really reflects who we are as people.”

You can find the rest of the lineup here.