LIFT News

LIFT Office and Store Holiday Closure – December 2024 Monday, November 18, 2024 Dear Members and Community, Thank you for supporting us through another eventful year. We’re looking forward to a December rest and an exciting and productive 2025. There’s plenty of fresh energy going into the new year so, despite all the difficult hardships that the last few years have brought, we will be there to welcom”… more

Consider Donating to LIFT for GivingTuesday 2024 November 15, 2024 GivingTuesday is a global movement for giving and volunteering, taking place each year after Black Friday. The “Opening day of the giving season,” it’s a time when charities, companies and individuals join together and rally for favourite causes. In the same way that retailers take part in Black Friday, the giving community comes”… more

LIFT co-presents “Boxcutter” at the Regent Park Film Festival Thursday 28 November 2024, 19:30 to 22:30 LIFT co-presents “Boxcutter” at the 2024 Regent Park Film Festival “Boxcutter” Directed by Reza Dahya Opening Night Film Thursday, November 28, 2024 Starts at 7:30pm Ada Slaight Hall, 585 Dundas Street East After his laptop is stolen, an aspiring rapper goes on a quest across the gentrifying streets of Toronto to recover his music in time for a pot”… more

LIFT co-presents “Fathers and Sons” at the European Union Film Festival Saturday 23 November 2024, 00:00 to 00:00 LIFT co-presents “Fathers and Sons” at the 2024 European Union Film Festival “Fathers and Sons” (Vaders en zonen) Directed by Jörgen Scholtens In-Person: Friday, November 22, 2024 Starts at 6:00pm Alliance Française Spadina Theatre, 24 Spadina Road Online: Streaming December 1 to 17, 2024 In this absurdist tale of arrested development, you’ll meet”… more

LIFT announces Finnish Visiting Artist Paola Fernanda Guzmán Figueroa Tuesday 15 October 2024, 00:00 to 00:00 Photo by Renata Mohamed LIFT ANNOUNCES FINNISH VISITING ARTIST PAOLA FERNANDA GUZMÁN FIGUEROA Toronto, November 7, 2024—The Liaison of Independent Filmmakers of Toronto (LIFT) is pleased to announce that Colombian-Finnish artist Paola Fernanda Guzmán Figueroa has joined us from Helsinki, Finland as a visiting artist from October 15, 2024 to Februar”… more

Screenwriters Circle – November 20 Wednesday 20 November 2024, 19:00 to 19:00 The LIFT Screenwriters Circle meets online on the third Wednesday 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 on screen. Thr”… more

LIFT co-presents “If You Ask Me” at RendezVous with Madness Friday 1 November 2024, 00:00 to 00:00 LIFT co-presents “If You Ask Me” at the 2024 Rendezvous with Madness Festival In-Person: Friday, November 1, 2024 5:30pm Tranzac Club, 292 Brunswick Avenue Various Tickets Rates Streaming online: November 4 – 11 (available in Canada) For the eighth consecutive year, “If You Ask Me (IYAM)” has supported emerging filmmakers with lived mental health a”… more

LIFT co-presents “A Man Imagined” at RendezVous with Madness Sunday 27 October 2024, 00:00 to 00:00 LIFT co-presents “A Man Imagined” at the 2024 Rendezvous with Madness Festival In-Person: Sunday, October 27, 2024 5:00pm CAMH Auditorium, 1025 Queen Street West Various Tickets Rates Streaming online: November 4 – 11 (available in Canada) Pushing at the limits of non-fiction cinema, “A Man Imagined” is a bracingly intimate and hallucinatory portra”… more

Call for Proposals: Digital Cinema Residency 2025 Friday 18 October 2024, 10:00 to 10:00 THE LIAISON OF INDEPENDENT FILMMAKERS OF TORONTO (LIFT) ANNOUNCES CALL FOR PROPOSALS: DIGITAL CINEMA RESIDENCY 2025 Toronto, October 18, 2024—The Liaison of Independent Filmmakers of Toronto (LIFT) is seeking applications from emerging filmmakers and artists between the age of 18 and 30 for a Digital Cinema Residency. The residency will run full-ti”… more

LIFT co-presents “Latin Canadian Shorts” at aluCine Friday 18 October 2024, 20:00 to 22:00 “Short Stories” by Gustavo Cerquera Benjumea LIFT co-presents “Off The Meun” Latin Canadian Shorts at 2024 aluCine Latin Film + Media Arts Festival aluCine continues its cherished tradition of showcasing the finest in new Latin Canadian cinema! Locally Sourced Short Films, this vibrant program highlights the creativity of Latin filmmakers in Canada”… more