Many indie filmmakers have come to the Sundance Film Festival, eager to find a distributor for their films — and maybe gettting to meet Robert Redford.

This week, as the Toronto International Film Festival gears up, it's Redford who's trying to find a distributor.

Redford's latest effort as a director, the post-Civil War drama "The Conspirator," will premiere at Toronto on Saturday. And Redford and his financiers are hoping some studio will want to pick it up.

"I'm just like any independent filmmaker," Redford told The New York Times' Michael Cieply, as he contrasted today's industry to the old days — when Redford could get an indie-sized movie, like "The Candidate" or "Jeremiah Johnson," made at a studio in exchange for taking a role in a big-budget movie.

"The Conspirator" stars Robin Wright Penn as Mary Seuratt, the boarding-house operator whose main crime may have been giving lodging to John Wilkes Booth and his co-conspirators in the assassination of Abraham Lincoln.