LIFT News

LIFT Office and Store Closed for Canada Day – June 30 and July 1 The LIFT office and store will be closed for Canada Day on Monday, June 30 as well as on Tuesday, July 1, 2025. We will reopen on Wednesday, July 2, 2025 at 10:00 am ET.

Screenwriters Circle – June 18 Wednesday 18 June 2025, 19:00 to 19:00 The LIFT Screenwriters Circle meets online on the third Wednesday at 7:00pm ET of each month to facilitate skill sharing, supportive critique and moving member scripts from the page to the screen. You must be a current LIFT member to attend this group. No experience is necessary, just a passion for words and images and a dream to one day see them o”… more

LIFT and imagineNATIVE 2024 Mentorship Announcement Thursday 29 August 2024, 00:00 to 00:00 2024 LIFT and imagineNATIVE Mentorship Winner Kira Doxtator Photo by Renata Mohamed . THE LIAISON OF INDEPENDENT FILMMAKERS OF TORONTO (LIFT) AND THE IMAGINENATIVE FILM + MEDIA ARTS FESTIVAL 2024 MENTORSHIP ANNOUNCEMENT Toronto, June 6, 2025—Last fall, the imagineNATIVE Film + Media Arts Festival and the Liaison of Independent Filmmakers of Toronto”… more

LIFT co-presents “Shorts: Local Heroes” at Inside Out Thursday 29 May 2025, 19:00 to 22:00 LIFT co-presents “Shorts: Local Heroes” at the 2025 Inside Out Toronto 2SLGBTQ+ Film Festival “Shorts: Local Heroes” Various Directors Thursday, May 29, 2025 at 7:00pm TIFF Lightbox 1 350 King Street West Toronto takes over the screen! From healing journeys and tender friendships to zombie apocalypses and cat-sitting gone wrong, this program repres”… more

LIFT Digital Cinema Residency – 2025 Announcement               . THE LIAISON OF INDEPENDENT FILMMAKERS OF TORONTO (LIFT) ANNOUNCES THE 2025 LIFT DIGITAL CINEMA RESIDENCY RECIPIENTS NOOR KHAN AND KURTIS WATSON Toronto, May 20, 2025—The Liaison of Independent Filmmakers of Toronto (LIFT) is pleased to announce that Noor Khan and Kurtis Watson were the 2025 Digital”… more

Notice of May 2025 Closure During the Canadian Media Skills Exchange May 13, 2025 Dear Members and Community at Large, Due to the heavy technical needs of our Canadian Media Skills Exchange (CMSE), the LIFT facility will be closed to the LIFT membership and community at large from Thursday, May 22, 2025 5:00pm ET and will reopen on Thursday, May 29, 2025 at 10:00am ET. Please note the Canadian Media Skills Exchange”… more

LIFT Office and Store Closed for Victoria Day – May 19 May 5, 2025 The LIFT office and store will be closed for Victoria on Monday, May 19, 2025. We will reopen on Tuesday, May 20, 2025 at 10:00 am ET.

LIFT co-presents “They’re Here” at Hot Docs LIFT co-presents They’re Here at the 2025 Hot Docs Canadian International Documentary Festival “They’re Here” Dir. Daniel Claridge and Pacho Velez Friday, May 2, 2025 at 8:45pm TIFF Lightbox 1 350 King Street West Sunday, May 4, 2025 at 1:00pm Hot Docs Ted Rogers Cinema 506 Bloor Street West With life on Earth feeling increasingly uncertain, They’r”… more

Canadian Media Skills Exchange (CMSE) – May 2025   May 2025: Registration is closed.  ============================== CANADIAN MEDIA SKILLS EXCHANGE CONFERENCE May 22 – 26, 2025 in Toronto, Canada Toronto, April 16, 2025—The Liaison of Independent Filmmakers of Toronto (LIFT) is excited to announce that we will be hosting a gathering of national analogue-based artist-run centres and media tec”… more

Employment Opportunities Thank you for your interest. There are currently no employment opportunities available with LIFT. Please note: Any employment with LIFT would not be on-set as we don’t produce films. All positions would be arts administration staff positions for the organization.