We're glad to have John Foote covering the 2007 Toronto Film Festival this year. We've got a snazzy new look to this section of the site and we're looking forward to yet another voice in the mixture here at In Contention.

John will be logging reports on a nightly basis, rather than the film-by-film coverage you may have been used to out of Gerard Kennedy last year. So the pace will be a touch slower, but hopefully we'll get a lot of measured insight out of the approach. John's pre-coverage will begin in August as announcements start coming down the pike.

Please welcome John, and enjoy the coverage as we plunge headlong into the 2007 film awards season.

(For more reviews and commentary from John, check out his website: Foote on Film.)