DEAR EVAN HANSEN Cinema Intro + Q&A | TIFF 2021

The team behind DEAR EVAN HANSEN in conversation with TIFF following its premiere at the 2021 Toronto International Film Festival. Julianne Moore and Ben Platt star in this adaptation of Steven Levenson’s Tony Award–winning musical about adolescence, grief, and transcendence. The 46th Toronto International Film Festival runs September 9 to 18, 2021. For more, visit . Winner of six Tony Awards including Best Musical, Best Score, and Best Lead Actor in a Musical for star Ben Platt, DEAR EVAN HANSEN comes to the big screen with all the heart and soaring inspiration of its Broadway origins. Director Stephen Chbosky made one of the best contemporary high school dramas in The Perks of Being a Wallflower, which premiered at the Festival in 2012. He brings that same insight to bear here, illuminating how secret wounds can be expressed and maybe even healed in glorious song. High school student Evan Hansen (Platt) suffers from social anxiety disorder. Under the advice of his therap