LIFT News

LIFT Office and Store Closed for Family Day – Feb 17 The LIFT office and store will be closed for Family Day on Monday, February 17th, 2020. LIFT will reopen on Tuesday, February 18th at 10:00AM.

LIFT co-presents “Bageroo Thirteen! Volume 3” program at the 8 Fest Sunday 26 January 2020, 19:00 Study of Color and Gesture by Tetsuya Maruyama LIFT co-presents Bageroo Thirteen! Volume 3 at the 8 Fest 2020 This is a fun one! Our programming team had a really great time assembling this spooky program filled with the most curious works! Programme: “The Big Country [Nothing But] Flowers” by Tess Eliott “Clouds” by Jeffrey Mann “A Really Bad Film”… more

LIFT Store: Kodak Film Price Increase for January 2020 January 9, 2020 (Revised January 22, 2020) Hello and Happy New Year! We hope you all had a wonderful holiday season. Now it is time to set our goals for the year to come, and for many of us that includes the use of analogue materials, and our favourite medium, film. Eastman Kodak Company has announced another price increase effective as of January”… more

EXTENDED // Call for Applicants: LIFT and imagineNATIVE 16th annual Mentorship Program LIFT and imagineNATIVE 16th ANNUAL MENTORSHIP PROGRAM: CALL FOR APPLICANTS Extended Deadline: Monday, January 20, 2020 Toronto, December 17, 2019—Are you an Indigenous filmmaker with a great idea for a 5-minute 16mm short? Celebrating 16 years of supporting independent Indigenous film, the LIFT/imagineNATIVE Mentorship program welcomes you to explo”… more

Fall 2019 Studio Immersion Program – Artist Talk: Andrew Lennox Friday 20 December 2019, 19:00 to 21:00 FALL 2019 STUDIO IMMERSION PROGRAM ARTIST TALK: ANDREW LENNOX As an artist in the PIX FILM/LIFT Studio Immersion Program, Andrew Lennox has worked in a new project using archival images (government/public domain sources) of the development of West Toronto, over the last 100+ years, as its source material. In addition, he is photographing and using”… more

LIFT Holiday Sale 2019           Hey all you analogue fans out there, we are having a sale! LIFT has been around for awhile and we’ve collected a few things along the way. Come by on December 13 and 14, 2019 and stock up on film, vintage kit and kitsch. Find a one of a kind gift for the film lover in your life. Or just treat y”… more

2019 Holiday Closure: LIFT Store       November 21, 2019  2019 Holiday Closure: LIFT Store   The LIFT Store will be closing on Thursday, December 19, 2019 at 6:00pm and will reopen on Monday, January 6, 2020 at 10:00am.        November 21, 2019  2019 Holiday Closure: LIFT Store “… more

2019 Holiday Closure: Discounted Rental Rates for Production Members  High Park toboggan runs, 1914   November 21, 2019  2019 Holiday Closure: Special Savings on Rental Rates  LIFT will be closing on Thursday, December 19, 2019 at 6:00pm and will reopen on Monday, January 6, 2020 at 10:00am.THURSDAY DECEMBER 19 IS THE LAST DAY THE OFFICE WILL BE OPEN IN 2019.    High”… more

Artist Talk with Visiting Artist Milja Viita Wednesday 11 December 2019, 19:00 to 21:00 35mm still from “Department of Film Pathology” (work in progress) by Milja Viita  The Liaison of Independent Filmmakers of Toronto (LIFT)is pleased to present an Artist Talk with Visiting Artist Milja Viita Milja Viita in person On Wednesday December 11 at 7:00pm at LIFT (1137 Dupont Street), Milja Viita will present an artist talk of her work and”… more

LIFT co-presents “Our Dance of Revolution” at Regent Park Film Festival Friday 22 November 2019, 21:00   Our Dance of Revolution by Phillip Pike LIFT co-presents “Our Dance of Revolution” at the 2019 Regent Park Film Festival Our Dance of Revolution tells the story of how Black queer folks in Toronto faced every adversity, from invisibility to police brutality, and over a four-decade span rose up to become a vibrant, triple-snap-fierce community.