THE HANDMAID’S TALE Q&A | TIFF 2022

The team behind THE HANDMAID’S TALE in conversation with TIFF in advance of its premiere at the 2022 Toronto International Film Festival. TIFF presents the first two episodes of season five of the acclaimed Margaret Atwood adaptation, which has become progressively more eerie as the battle for reproductive rights wages across North America. The 47th Toronto International Film Festival runs September 8 to 18, 2022. For more, visit . In 1985, Canadian literary icon— and possibe clairvoyant — Margaret Atwood wrote The Handmaid’s Tale. The novel introduced the world to the Republic of Gilead, a treacherous, patriarchal state ruled by theocratic law, where fertile women (handmaids) are assigned to a ruling class of men (commanders) to produce children, without choice or control over their own bodies. Thirty-two years later, show creator Bruce Miller (Everwood, Medium, Eureka) adapted Atwood’s “dystopian” novel into a series, the same year an accused sexual predator was sworn in a