LIFT News

Summer 2019 Workshop Registration is now available on-line!  On-line registration for our Summer 2019 workshops is now available.   For more information and to register, follow the link here.  If you have any questions get in touch with the Education Department at workshops(at)lift.on.ca   On-line registration for our Summer 2019 workshops is now available.   For more”… more

LIFT Office and Store Closed for Victoria Day – May 20    The LIFT office and store will be closed for Victoria Day on Monday, May 20, 2019. LIFT will reopen on Tuesday, May 21 at 10:00AM.     The LIFT office and store will be closed for Victoria Day on Monday, May 20, 2019. LIFT will reopen on Tuesday, May 21 at 10:00AM.

LIFT co-presents “Shorts: Local Heroes” at Inside Out Thursday 30 May 2019, 18:45 My Fuzzy Valentine by Ben Edelberg LIFT co-presents Shorts: Local Heroes at the 2019 Inside Out Toronto LGBT Film Festival Co-presented in partnership with Liaison of Independent Filmmakers of Toronto (LIFT), Out LGBTQ+ and Yohomo. Our annual collection of what this great city has to offer, this year’s Local Heroes brings us a wide assortment of qu”… more

Call for Submissions: LIFT Seasonal Screening Series – Experimental Thursday 9 May 2019, 00:00 CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS: SEASONAL SCREENING SERIES – EXPERIMENTAL Toronto, May 9, 2019—The Liaison of Independent Filmmakers of Toronto (LIFT) is pleased to announce submissions are now open for the second screening of current members work. For this summer’s event, we will be shining a light on experimental works. Current members are encouraged to sub”… more

LIFT and imagineNATIVE 2019 Mentorship Announcement Thursday 18 April 2019, 00:00 2019 LIFT and imagineNATIVE Mentorship Winner Cole Forrest Toronto, April 18, 2019—The imagineNATIVE Film + Media Arts Festival and the Liaison of Independent Filmmakers of Toronto (LIFT) are pleased to announce that Toronto-based artist Cole Forrest is the recipient of the 15th annual LIFT/imagineNATIVE Mentorship. Cole is an Ojibwe artist origina”… more

LIFT Office and Store Closed for Good Friday and Easter Monday – Apr 19 and 22  Etienne-Jules Marey, Lapin—Évolution de la chute (Rabbit—Evolution of the fall), 1894    The LIFT office and store will be closed for Good Friday and Easter Monday on Friday, April 19 and Monday, April 22, 2019. LIFT will reopen on Tuesday, April 23 at 10:00AM.   Etienne-Jules Marey, Lapin—Évolution de la ch”… more

LIFT Seasonal Screening Series: Documentary Wednesday 24 April 2019, 19:00 The Liaison of Independent Filmmakers of Toronto (LIFT) is pleased to present the 2019 Seasonal Screening Series: Documentary Toronto, April 4, 2019—Member screenings have been an essential part of the Liaison of Independent Filmmakers of Toronto’s nearly forty-year history. From screenings at the defunct experimental cinema The Funnel in the 1980s”… more

LIFT co-presents “A Kandahar Away” at Hot Docs Wednesday 1 May 2019, 18:30 LIFT co-presents A Kandahar Away at the 2019 Hot Docs Canadian International Documentary Festival A Kandahar Away Dir. Aisha Jamal Wednesday May 1 at 6:30pm TIFF Bell Lightbox 2 Thursday May 2 at 1:00pm, Isabel Bader Theatre Saturday May 4 at 10:15am, TIFF Bell Lightbox 2 In 1991, a refugee arrived in Canada with his wife and five children, having”… more

LIFT co-presents “Domestic Cinema Shorts Program” at Images Festival Thursday 18 April 2019, 15:00 Five Movements by Lily Jue Sheng LIFT co-presents Domestic Cinema Shorts Program at the 2019 Images Festival Co-presented in partnership with Liaison of Independent Filmmakers of Toronto (LIFT), Breakthroughs Film Festivals, Call Again and the South Asian Visual Arts Centre (SAVAC) The ongoing discourse of Domestic Cinema springs from Gabi Dao’s fi”… more

Call for Submissions: LIFT Seasonal Screening Series – Documentary Friday 1 March 2019, 10:00 CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS LIFT SEASONAL SCREENING SERIES Toronto, March 1, 2019—The Liaison of Independent Filmmakers of Toronto (LIFT) will be launching a seasonal screening series that will highlight recently completed films made by our current members. Each screening will focus on a specific form—documentary, narrative, experimental, music videos—and”… more