LIFT News

2017 Holiday Closure: Discounted Rental Rates for Production Members   December 8, 2017 2017 Holiday Closure: Special Savings on Rental Rates  LIFT will be closing on Wednesday, December 20, 2017 at 6:00pm and will reopen on Thursday, January 4, 2018 at 10:00am.WEDNESDAY DECEMBER 20th IS THE LAST DAY THE OFFICE WILL BE OPEN IN 2017.    December 8, 2017 2017 Holiday Closure: Sp”… more

Executive Director’s 2017 Year End Message  December 8, 2017  Image Credit: Winter walk in High Park, 1920. City of Toronto Archives, Fonds 1244, Item 451A   December 8, 2017  Image Credit: Winter walk in High Park, 1920. City of Toronto Archives, Fonds 1244, Item 451A  EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR’S 2017 YEAR END MESSAGE Dear Members, We are jus”… more

LIFT co-presents “German Competition/Deutscher Wettbewerb From the International Short Film Festival Oberhausen” Friday 15 December 2017, 19:00 German Competition / Deutscher Wettbewerb from the International Short Film Festival Oberhausen Presented by the PIX FILM Gallery, in co-presentation with the Liaison of Independent Filmmakers of Toronto (LIFT) History, Migration, architecture, the National Socialist Underground: The works from the 2017 German Competition presented in this program,”… more

Fall 2017 Studio Immersion Program – 80 seconds in Toronto Wednesday 29 November 2017, 18:00 FALL 2017 STUDIO IMMERSION PROGRAM EXHIBITION – “80 SECONDS IN TORONTO” Opening reception: Wednesday, November 29, 2017 from 6:00pm – 9:00pm Open daily: November 30 – December 4, 2017 from 12noon to 7:00pm 80 seconds in Toronto is a studio exhibition by Andreas Wutz, which includes a mixed media installation of 16mm film, 35mm slides, text footage,”… more

LIFT Welcomes New Staff – November 2017  November 23, 2017   New Technical Administrator Justine McCloskey  Welcome to New Technical Administrator Justine McCloskey    November 23, 2017   New Technical Administrator Justine McCloskey  Welcome to New Technical Administrator Justine McCloskey  The staff and board at LIFT”… more

Fall 2017 Studio Immersion Program – Namuhla yisikhathi esadlulayo / Today is a long time ago Wednesday 22 November 2017, 19:00 FALL 2017 STUDIO IMMERSION PROGRAM NAMUHLA YISIKHATHI ESADLULAYO / TODAY IS A LONG TIME AGO A talk by Andreas Wutz Join us as Andreas Wutz talks about his recent solo exhibition at the National Gallery of Zimbabwe. The project is based on a long-term research in national and private archives in Zimbabwe, field researches on original locations, and”… more

Call for Applicants: LIFT and imagineNATIVE 14th annual Mentorship Program Wednesday 15 November 2017, 00:00 LIFT and imagineNATIVE 14th ANNUAL MENTORSHIP PROGRAM: CALL FOR APPLICANTS Application Deadline: Friday, December 15, 2017 by 12:00pm Toronto, November 15, 2017— Are you an Indigenous artist or emerging filmmaker living in or near the GTA? Do you have a great idea for a 5-minute short film? Celebrating 14 years of supporting independent Indigenous”… more

LIFT co-presents “Been Here So Long” at Reel Asian Friday 10 November 2017, 18:00 Our Origin Is Interconnection by Althea Balmes LIFT co-presents the “Been Here So Long” program at the 2017 Toronto Reel Asian International Film Festival 2017 marks the 150th year of the Confederation of Canada. With funding from the Ontario150 program and in partnership with Vtape, Reel Asian asked various young artists to rework and reimagine ar”… more

Fall 2017 Studio Immersion Program – Nightwalk: The Films of Andreas Wutz Wednesday 8 November 2017, 19:00 Nightwalk by Andreas Wutz FALL 2017 STUDIO IMMERSION PROGRAM NIGHTWALK: THE FILMS OF ANDREAS WUTZ   Join us for a free screening with filmmaker in the Studio Immersion Program artist Andreas Wutz. Andreas Wutz is a conceptual media artist living in Munich and Bilbao. His short films are cinepoems which use experimental and documentary strategies, a”… more

Andreas Wutz – Fall 2017 Studio Immersion Program Thursday 2 November 2017, 00:00 LIFT AND PIX FILM ANNOUNCES THE SECOND STUDIO IMMERSION PROGRAM RESIDENT—ANDREAS WUTZ Toronto, November 2, 2017—The Liaison of Independent Filmmakers of Toronto (LIFT) and PIX FILM is pleased to announce that German filmmaker Andreas Wutz is now in residence as our second filmmaker in the new Studio Immersion Program, supported by the Petman Founda”… more