Programming

Displayed here is a partial list of LIFT programming and co-presentations going back to 2004. Entries are sorted by date, with the most recent entries first. The programming links on the left provide a a quick view of each program offered by LIFT and calls for submissions.

 

 

Wednesday, February 22, 2012 - 7:00pm
Image credit: Barbara Sternberg, in the nature of things, 16mm, 2011.  LIFT and Pleasure Dome present No Reading After the Internet: Thomas Bernhard’s The Voice Imitator: 104 Stories as selected by Barbara SternbergBarbara Sternberg in attendance In conjunction with...
Thursday, February 16, 2012 - 7:30pm
 LIFT OUT LOUD February presents:A Bi-Monthly Screenplay Reading Series With Guest Moderator GINA DINEEN (Bravo!FACT)   Two Short Screenplays for discussion Scripts by Jayvibha Vaidya and Cody Campanale ** NOTE WEEKDAY CHANGE ** GUEST MODERATOR: Gina Dineen (Bravo!FACT) A...
Wednesday, February 15, 2012 - 7:00pm
The LIFT Screenwriter's Circle meets on the third Wednesday of each month to facilitate skill-sharing, supportive critique and moving member scripts from the page to the screen. The group is open to all LIFT members. No experience is necessary, just a passion for words and images and a dream...
Thursday, February 9, 2012 (All day)
 2012 LIFT and imagineNATIVE Mentorship Winner Tyler Hagan Toronto, February 9, 2012— imagineNATIVE Film + Media Arts Festival and the Liaison of Independent Filmmakers of Toronto (LIFT) are pleased to announce that Vancouver raised, Toronto based Métis artist Tyler Hagan is...
Tuesday, January 31, 2012 - 7:00pm
 Readings inspired by Annie MacDonell’s “Originality and the Avant Garde (On Art and Repetition)” Annie MacDonell in attendance  In conjunction with Mercer Union’s exhibition of Annie MacDonell’s “Originality and the Avant Garde (On Art and Repetition),” a selection of texts will be...
Wednesday, January 25, 2012 - 5:00pm
         Do you have a great idea for a 5 minute short film? Explore 16mm filmmaking through LIFT’s workshops, equipment and facilities (other mediums may be employed). Shoot and edit your ideas to film, and see them on screen at the 13th annual...
Thursday, January 19, 2012 - 8:00pm
Stills from Larissa Fan's “The tide goes in, the tide goes out” and Jean-Paul Kelly's “A Minimal Difference”  In celebration of three decades of filmmaking the Liaison of Independent Filmmakers of Toronto (LIFT)has commissioned thirty Canadian film veterans and emerging voices to make...
Tuesday, January 3, 2012 (All day)
LIFT's popular screenplay reading series LIFT OUT LOUD is currently looking for short scripts for our LIFT OUT LOUD reading in February.   Please submit them as either a PDF or Word document by Tuesday, January 3rd, 2012 to: E-mail: liftoutloud(at)gmail.com Subject Heading: LIFT OUT LOUD...
Wednesday, December 14, 2011 - 7:30am
LIFT OUT LOUD DecemberA Bi-Monthly Screenplay Reading Series With Guest ModeratorJANA SINYOR (Being Erica) A One Hour Television pilot for discussionGrey Ops written by Nathalie Younglai Agent Vilheim Busse is a bad-ass spy whose recent botched mission lands him in disciplinary hell. As...
Wednesday, November 9, 2011 - 5:00pm
 (Cindy Mochizuki's YOKAI & OTHER SPIRITS - photo by Dalia Vukmirovic)  Project stills at the end of this entry. LOST SECRETS OF THE ROYAL Four newly commissioned works presented by Liaison of Independent Filmmakers Toronto (LIFT), Reel Asian, the Blackwood Gallery...