Carole Freeman’s exhibition, If the Paparazzi Could Paint, referencing films and celebrities featured at the 2010 Toronto International Film Festival, was installed simultaneously at Rebecca Gallery and official Festival headquarters, the Hyatt Regency Hotel, across the street from the new but only partially open TIFF Bell Lightbox.

Fifty portraits included paintings and monotypes of Julian Schnabel, Deepa Mehta, Steven Spielberg, David Cronenberg, Matt Damon, Robert De Niro, Robert Redford, Sarah Polley, Johnny Depp, Tim Burton, Uma Thurman, Juliette Binoche, Dennis Hopper, Martin Scorcese, Helen Mirren, and more. The portrait of Isabella Rosellini was featured in a full-page National Post article, Celebrity Apprentice. Upon eyeing the Johnny Depp portrait, Morgan Spurlock, director and actor in the documentaries Supersize Me and Where in the World is Osama Bin Laden, commissioned Freeman to paint a sartorial portrait of his producing partner, Jeremy Chilnick.