LIFT News

LIFT Office and Store Closed for Simcoe Day – August 4 The LIFT office and store will be closed for Simcoe Day—also known as Civic Holiday—on Monday, August 4, 2025. We will reopen on Tuesday, August 5, 2025 at 10:00 am ET. Have a happy and safe holiday!

Open Screening – Summer 2025 Tuesday 22 July 2025, 19:00 to 21:00 THE LIAISON OF INDEPENDENT FILMMAKERS OF TORONTO (LIFT) ANNOUNCES OPEN SCREENING – SUMMER 2025 July 4, 2025—Join the Liaison of Independent Filmmakers of Toronto (LIFT) on Tuesday, July 22, 2025 in the Main Classroom at the LIFT facility (located at 1137 Dupont) for our Summer 2025 Open Screening. The event is an opportunity to show new films, audi”… more

Screenwriters Circle – July 16 Wednesday 16 July 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

Call for Applications: Guiding The Future – Collaborative Planning for Senior Filmmakers – Extended Friday 27 June 2025, 00:00 THE LIAISON OF INDEPENDENT FILMMAKERS OF TORONTO (LIFT) ANNOUNCES CALL FOR APPLICATIONS: GUIDING THE FUTURE: COLLABORATIVE PLANNING FOR SENIOR FILMMAKERS Toronto, June 27, 2025 (revised July 17, 2025)—The Liaison of Independent Filmmakers of Toronto (LIFT) is seeking statements of interest from filmmakers aged sixty-five (65) of age and above to pa”… more

Call for Applications: Newcomer Filmmentor 2025 – Extended Thursday 26 June 2025, 00:00 THE LIAISON OF INDEPENDENT FILMMAKERS OF TORONTO (LIFT) ANNOUNCES CALL FOR APPLICATIONS: LIFT NEWCOMER FILMMENTOR 2025 Toronto, June 26, 2025 (revised July 7, 2025)—Are you a newcomer or refugee filmmaker living in or near the Greater Toronto and Hamilton Area (GTHA)? Are you looking to develop specific film-related skills, better familiarize yours”… more

LIFT Welcomes Summer Staff – June 2025 (L-R) Ander Barillas and Ben Compton Photo by Renata Mohamed June 20, 2025 Welcome to Summer 2025 Staff Thanks to the Canada Summer Job program, supported by the Canadian Government, we are able to welcome two new summer staff to LIFT this summer, Ben Compton and Ander Barillas, who started last month. Ben is our Summer 2025 Conference and Meeting”… more

LIFT co-presents Shorts Programme: “Dysfunctional Destinies” at Toronto Arab Film Saturday 28 June 2025, 16:00 to 18:00 LIFT co-presents Shorts Programme: “Dysfunctional Destinies” at the 2025 Toronto Arab Film Festival Shorts Programme: “Dysfunctional Destinies” Various Directors Saturday, June 28, 2025 at 4:00pm Innis Town Hall 2 Sussex Avenue Programme includes: “Blood Ties,” Hakim Atoui “If the sun drowned into an ocean of clouds,” Wissam Charaf “Möbius Loop,” L”… more

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.

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