LIFT News

This is the chronological compendium of LIFT news posts from all of our departments; most recent first.

 
Ambassadors of Coincidence (Berlin)

Ambassadors of Coincidence II: A city walk game with Dagie Brundert

Saturday 19 May 2012, 10:00

 Co-presented by LIFT and the Goethe Institut Toronto Saturday, May 19, 201210am – 5pm  Enrolment limited to 5 Free, Advanced registration required   Co-presented by LIFT and the Goethe Institut Toronto Saturday, May 19, 201210am – 5pm  Enrolment limited to 5 Free, Advanced registration required Presented as”… more

Ambassadors of Coincidence (Berlin)

Ambassadors of Coincidence I: A city walk game with Dagie Brundert

Saturday 12 May 2012, 11:00

 Co-presented by LIFT and the Goethe Institut Toronto   Co-presented by LIFT and the Goethe Institut Toronto Saturday May 12 and Sunday May 13, 2012Both days from 11am – 5pm Enrolment limited to 8 Free, Advanced registration required  Ambassadors of Coincidence is a collaborative film production game conceived by Dagie Brun”… more

LIFT’s Cameraless Filmmaking Workshop with Media City Film Festival at the Art Gallery of Windsor

Sunday 29 April 2012, 11:00

CAMERALESS FILMMAKINGSaltmarche-McLaughlin-Haworth Studio CAMERALESS FILMMAKINGSaltmarche-McLaughlin-Haworth StudioArt Gallery of Windsor In partnership with the 18th edition of Media City Film Festival and the Art Gallery of Windsor, the Liaison of Independent Filmmakers of Toronto (LIFT) will present a free afternoon class in cameraless 16mm”… more

Dagie Brundert – Goethe-Institut / LIFT Residency Spring 2012

Wednesday 25 April 2012, 00:00

   Toronto, April 25, 2012—The Liaison of Independent Filmmakers of Toronto (LIFT) and the Goethe-Institut Toronto are pleased to announce Dagie Brundert (Berlin) as the inaugural Goethe-LIFT Artist-in-Residence this May. One of Germany’s most prolific filmmakers working with small format Super 8 film Dagie has produced a wide range of fi”… more

LIFT OUT LOUD: Call for TV Pilots / Webisodes for June Reading

Tuesday 17 April 2012, 00:00

LIFT’s popular screenplay reading series LIFT OUT LOUD is currently looking for great TV Pilots and webisodes scripts for our LIFT OUT LOUD reading in June. Please submit them as either a PDF or Word document by Tuesday April 17th, 2012 to: E-mail: liftoutloud(at)gmail.com Subject Heading: LIFT OUT LOUD June 2012 Submission Please note:To”… more

LIFT co-presents “She Said Boom: The Story of Fifth Column” at Hot Docs

Friday 27 April 2012, 19:15

 LIFT co-presents at the 2012 Hot Docs  Feature film, She Said Boom: The Story of Fifth Column Dir. Kevin Hegge  LIFT co-presents at the 2012 Hot Docs  Feature film, She Said Boom: The Story of Fifth Column Dir. Kevin Hegge   Screening with The Man that Got Away Dir. Trevor Anderson  For more information see hotdocs.ca”… more

LIFT co-presents “On Screen: Right Ascension” at the Images Festival

Saturday 14 April 2012, 21:30

Towards a Vanishing Point by Chris Kennnedy Calling attention to systems through which we construct our sense of geospatial and spectatorial positioning, works in this program navigate considerations of the experience and representation of space.  Towards a Vanishing Point by Chris Kennnedy Calling attention to systems through which”… more

Elizabeth Alexander’s “Can you be BLACK and Look at This?” – NRATI

Tuesday 3 April 2012, 19:00

LIFT, the Images Festival and Gallery 44 present No Reading After the Internet: Elizabeth Alexander’s “Can you be BLACK and Look at This?”: Reading the Rodney King Video(s) LIFT, the Images Festival and Gallery 44 present No Reading After the Internet: Elizabeth Alexander’s “Can you be BLACK and Look at This?”: Reading the Rodney King Video(s) as s”… more

LIFT OUT LOUD April 4 – Guest Moderator Jeremy Boxen

Wednesday 4 April 2012, 19:30

 The Liaison of Independent Filmmakers of Toronto (LIFT) presents:LIFT OUT LOUDA Bi-Monthly Screenplay Reading Series With Guest ModeratorJEREMY BOXEN (Cra$h & Burn)
 Feature Screenplay for discussionScript by Adam Revesz   The Liaison of Independent Filmmakers of Toronto (LIFT) presents:LIFT OUT LOUDA Bi-Monthly Screenplay”… more

Women Game Players, Characters and Creators – NRATI

Wednesday 14 March 2012, 19:00

 LIFT and Bento Miso present  LIFT and Bento Miso present No Reading After the Internet: Women Game Players, Characters and Creators with texts selected by Jennie Faber Facilitated by Jennie Faber and cheyanne turions   The creation and consumption of video games has long been seen as the domain of men and boys. Women and girl gamers”… more