LIFT News

LIFT co-presents “Blue II” at Images Festival Sunday 17 July 2022, 14:00 to 20:00 Petal to the Metal by Emily Pelstring LIFT co-presents “Blue II” Shorts Programme at 2022 Images Festival: Slow Edition This program is part of the “suite ok to rest” curated by Jaclyn Quaresma. Sunday, July 17, 2022 Innis Town Hall 2 Sussex Avenue Presented with Closed Captions at 2PM Presented with Creative Audio Description at 4PM Presented with”… more

LIFT co-presents Vector Festival: Glitch Thursday 14 July 2022, 00:00 to 00:00 LIFT is community sponsor of the Vector Festival 2022: Glitch Vector Festival 2022: Glitch July 14 – 24, 2022 A glitch is a mistake, an error, a failure, a malfunction—it’s the machine telling us that something inside it has gone wrong. Machines are designed to, and expected to, work perfectly. However, even the most powerful technologies can be qu”… more

LIFT Welcomes New Additional Staff – June 2022 Incoming Special Projects Coordinator Helen Lee (L) and Commissioning and Mentorship Coordinator Robert Lee (R) June 27, 2022 Welcome to Special Projects Coordinator Helen Lee and Commissioning and Mentorship Coordinator Robert Lee Thanks to the Digital Now initiative of the Canada Council for the Arts and additional project funding, we are happy t”… more

Recipients of the LIFT 2022 Production and Post-Production Support Grant Monday 13 June 2022, 00:00 to 00:00 Top Row (L-R):  Bonnie Whitehall, Camil Ghajary, Ella Morton and Emily Ryder Bottom Row (L-R): Japinder Sandhu, Joanna Decc, Oyin Olalekan and Rolla Tahir Monday, June 13, 2022 After a five year hiatus the Liaison of Independent Filmmakers of Toronto’s (LIFT) Production and Post-Production Support Grant is back. Between 2005 – 2015, LIFT’s Support”… more

Updates on LIFT Operations – June 2022 Saturday, June 11, 2022 Dear Members and Community, Thank you for supporting us over the course of the pandemic as we have all done our best to keep each other safe. LIFT is now fully open for business, with access through the side door under the awning on Gladstone (our front door will continue to be closed for further notice). This summer, LIFT a”… more

LIFT Welcomes New Staff – June 2022 Incoming Technical Coordinator Noah Henderson June 10, 2022 Welcome to New Technical Coordinator Noah Henderson The staff of the Liaison of Independent Filmmakers of Toronto (LIFT) would like to welcome our new Technical Coordinator, Noah Henderson, who joined us last Monday. Noah joins Robin and Karl in the Technical Department, providing support”… more

Accessibility at LIFT LIFT is working hard to make our facilities more accessible to our community as best as possible. The organization welcomes any suggestions from the community about how we can improve access. Currently, LIFT facility, which is located at 1137 Dupont Street, is accessible in the following ways: – The facility is on one level, with access from the Gl”… more

LIFT Staff Farewell – June 2022 Outgoing Technical Administrator Yixun Zhang June 8, 2022 Best Wishes to Technical Administrator Yixun Zhang LIFT would like to announce the departure of Yixun Zhang, who has chosen to take on another opportunity. They worked diligently with the Technical Coordinators to help ensure the safe and efficient opening up of LIFT’s facilities after our c”… more

LIFT co-presents “Visions of Home” at Toronto Arab Film Thursday 26 May 2022, 18:00 to 23:00 Brown Bread and Apricots by Serene Husni LIFT co-presents “Visions of Home” Shorts Programme at 2022 Toronto Arab Film Programme: “Visions of Basra” by Noor Gatih “Brown Bread and Apricots” by Serene Husni “Memory is a Dying Horse” by Samer Najari “Something from there” by Rana Nazzal Hamadeh After this content becomes available May 26th at 6:00 pm”… more

LIFT co-presents “Local Heroes” at Inside Out Thursday 2 June 2022, 18:45 to 20:45 Don’t Text Your Ex by Jo Güstin LIFT co-presents Local Heroes at 2022 Inside Out Toronto 2SLGBTQ+ Film Festival Annual collection of the best of the best in local queer cinema. Programme: “Thot or Not” by Dylan Glynn “Between Realities Along the Edge of Time” by Jessica Huras “Fresh Meat” by Lu Asfaha “Romario” by James Cooper” “Don’t Text Your Ex'”… more