Music biopics and documentaries at forefront of latest Toronto film fest

Toronto

COUNTRY music star Hank Williams and jazz trumpeter Chet Baker biopics, as well as a new Keith Richards documentary headlined at the Toronto International Film Festival on Sunday.

Hoping to follow in the footsteps of Joaquin Phoenix as Johnny Cash in Walk the Line, a whopping eight music biopics and docs were scheduled for release in Toronto this week. A ninth with footage of Aretha Franklin's 1972 concert in a Los Angeles church was also planned, but it was yanked at the last minute, due to an ongoing legal fight between producers and the singer.