LIFT News

Spring 2018 Motion Picture Sale – May 30 and 31        The Liaison of Independent Filmmakers of Toronto (LIFT)’sSPRING 2018 MOTION PICTURE FILM SALEDates: Wednesday, May 30, 2018 and Thursday, May 31, 2018Sale Times: 12pm – 5pm (No pre-sales will be available)1137 Dupont Street(Main intersection is Dufferin Street and Dupont Street)  The Liaison of Independent”… more

LIFT Office and Store Closed for Victoria Day – May 21  The LIFT office and store will be closed for Victoria Day on Monday, May 21, 2018. LIFT will reopen on Tuesday, May 22 at 10:00AM.   The LIFT office and store will be closed for Victoria Day on Monday, May 21, 2018. LIFT will reopen on Tuesday, May 22 at 10:00AM.

LIFT co-presents “Take Light” at Hot Docs Friday 27 April 2018, 18:45 LIFT co-presents Take Light at the 2018 Hot Docs Canadian International Documentary Festival Take Light Dir. Shasha Nakhai Friday April 27 @ 6:45 PM, Hart House Theatre Tuesday May 1 @ 3:15 PM, Scotiabank Theatre 3 Thursday May 3 @ 6:30 PM, Scotiabank Theatre 3 Over 50 per cent of Nigeria’s nearly 200 million citizens don’t have access to electrici”… more

LIFT co-presents “Redacting Bodies: Local Shorts Program” at Images Festival Thursday 19 April 2018, 21:00 Stroke by Wang Weibin LIFT co-presents Redacting Bodies: Local Shorts Program at the 2018 Images Festival Co-presented in partnership with Liaison of Independent Filmmakers of Toronto (LIFT), MANO-RAMO and the8fest Curated by Alexandra Gelis If redaction is a process of editing documents, in which the removal of sensitive information is typically r”… more

LIFT co-presents “FROM A TO Z ” – Screening and Exhibition in Vienna Friday 20 April 2018, 00:00 Poster by Madi Piller and Daniel Browne The Liaison of Independent Filmmakers of Toronto (LIFT) co-presents FROM A TO Z Film screening and Exhibition in Vienna April 20, 2018 Screening at Blickle Kino at Belvedere21 7pm – 9pm Arsenalstraße 1, 1030 Wien April 21, 2018 Exhibit at Setzkasten and Zwischendecke 7pm Hernalser Hauptstraße 29/4 and 31, 117″… more

LIFT Office and Store Closed for Good Friday – Mar 30  The LIFT office and store will be closed for Good Friday on Friday, March 30, 2018. LIFT will reopen on Monday, April 2 (Easter Monday) at 10:00AM.   The LIFT office and store will be closed for Good Friday on Friday, March 30, 2018. LIFT will reopen on Monday, April 2 (Easter Monday) at 10:00AM.

LIFT co-presents “Toronto: Back and Forth” at Society for Cinema and Media Studies Thursday 15 March 2018, 19:30 The Big Adventure by Colin Strayer Society for Cinema and Media Studies’ (SCMS) 2018 Conference York University’s School of the Arts, Media, Performance & Design, SCMS’ CinemArts Scholarly Interest Group and Experimental Film and Media Scholarly Interest Group, York University’s Graduate Film Student Association, The City Institute at York Univ”… more

LIFT and imagineNATIVE 2018 Mentorship Announcement Friday 16 February 2018, 00:00 2018 LIFT and imagineNATIVE Mentorship Winner Natasha Naveau TORONTO, February 16, 2018—The imagineNATIVE Film + Media Arts Festival and the Liaison of Independent Filmmakers of Toronto (LIFT) are pleased to announce that Toronto-based artist Natasha Naveau is the recipient of the 14th annual LIFT/imagineNATIVE Mentorship. Natasha was raised in Mat”… more

LIFT announces the inaugural BAICC Resident – Tono Mejuto Tuesday 13 February 2018, 00:00 LIFT ANNOUNCES THE INAUGURAL BAICC RESIDENT TONO MEJUTO TORONTO, February 13, 2018—The Liaison of Independent Filmmakers of Toronto (LIFT) is pleased to welcome Spanish filmmaker Tono Mejuto as the inaugural resident of the BAICC Residencias Artísticas Internacionales de Creacion Cinematográfica, a collaboration between the (S8) Mostra Internaciona”… more

Call for Submissions: LIFT and PIX FILM Studio Immersion Program 2018 Friday 9 February 2018, 00:00 CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS LIFT and PIX FILM STUDIO IMMERSION PROGRAM 2018 Thematic: Hybrid Models of Filmmaking TORONTO, February 9, 2018—The Liaison of Independent Filmmakers of Toronto (LIFT) and PIX FILM are seeking applications for a new Studio Immersion Program in 2018. We are looking for applications from International and Canadian artists to re-t”… more