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LIFT Winter 2012 Workshop Season Now Online WINTER 2012 WORKSHOPS AND COURSES AT LIFT Comprehensive Production Training for Film, Video and Interactive Art  WINTER 2012 WORKSHOPS AND COURSES AT LIFT Comprehensive Production Training for Film, Video and Interactive Art Registration opens Tuesday January 24 at 10am for our Winter 2012 Workshop season. Book early, space is limited. Re”… more

LIFT Award for Best Local Filmmaker at 2011 aluCine Toronto Latin Film and Media Festival LIFT recently presented the Best Local Filmmaker Award at the 2011 aluCine Toronto Latin Film and Media Festival. This award is given to the jury’s selection for the best local film or video maker from the festival. This award includes a LIFT membership as well as a $500 credit for equipment and facility rentals, workshops and courses. LIFT recentl”… more

LIFT OUT LOUD Dec 14 – Guest Moderator Jana Sinyor Wednesday 14 December 2011, 07:30 LIFT OUT LOUD DecemberA Bi-Monthly Screenplay Reading Series With Guest ModeratorJANA SINYOR (Being Erica) A One Hour Television pilot for discussionGrey Ops written by Nathalie Younglai  LIFT OUT LOUD DecemberA Bi-Monthly Screenplay Reading Series With Guest ModeratorJANA SINYOR (Being Erica) A One Hour Television pilot for discussi”… more

December 2011 Closure December 2011 Closure LIFT will be closed for holidays from Friday, December 16th, 2011 to Tuesday, January 3rd, 2012.Friday December 16th is the last day the office and store will be open for 2011. The office and store will reopen to members and the public on Tuesday, January 3rd, 2012 at 10:00AM.  December 2011 Closure LIFT wi”… more

Roger Beebe Screens with Pleasure Dome and Teaches Filmmaking With Your Home Printer at LIFT Pleasure Dome presents Roger Beebe’s Films for One to Eight Projectors Performance  Saturday, October 29, 7pm Doors/ 7:30 Screening @ Trash Palace, 89-B Niagara St. $8/ 5 Members + Students www.pdome.org/ 416-656-5577  Pleasure Dome presents Roger Beebe’s Films for One to Eight Projectors Performance  Saturday, October 29,”… more

LIFT Members Daniel Young and Christian Giroux win the 2011 Sobey Art Award      October 13, 2011—HALIFAX, NS—The Curatorial Panel for the 2011 Sobey Art Award announced today that Young & Giroux representing Ontario are the recipients of the $50,000 top prize. The announcement was made during a Gala event held at the Art Gallery of Nova Scotia in Halifax. The Award was presented to the winning arti”… more

“Occupy” Movements in Relation to Colonial Dynamics in Canada – NRATI Wednesday 2 November 2011, 19:00 Image credit: 06 April Movement tent, Tahrir Square, Cairo, 29 June 2011. Photograph by Mona Seif. In collaboration with FUSE Magazine   Facilitated by Gina Badger and cheyanne turions  Image credit: 06 April Movement tent, Tahrir Square, Cairo, 29 June 2011. Photograph by Mona Seif. In collaboration with FUSE Magazine   Fa”… more

LIFT co-presents “The Uprooted” at imagineNATIVE Saturday 22 October 2011, 17:30  The Liaison of Independent Filmmakers of Toronto (LIFT), along with Worldwide Short Film Festival and ACTRA Toronto, co-presents at the 2011 imagineNATIVE Film + Media Arts Festival.    The Liaison of Independent Filmmakers of Toronto (LIFT), along with Worldwide Short Film Festival and ACTRA Toronto, co-presents at the 2011 im”… more

LIFT co-presents “Alternative Landscapes” at Planet in Focus Saturday 15 October 2011, 19:00  The Liaison of Independent Filmmakers of Toronto (LIFT),  The Liaison of Independent Filmmakers of Toronto (LIFT), along with Consulate General of the Federal Republic of Germany Toronto, Worldwide Short Film Festival, and Canadian Filmmakers Distribution Centre, co-presents at the 2011 Planet in Focus: International Environmental Film a”… more

LIFT OUT LOUD Oct 12 – Guest Moderator Amnon Buchbinder Wednesday 12 October 2011, 19:30 Features Script:  Apartment Story written by Anthony Van Pham Tommy, heartbroken after being betrayed by his long-term girlfriend, wanders the streets of Toronto at night. But it’s out there he meets Julie, a young waitress who’s pretty lost at life herself. The two bond over their shared stories of failed relationships and careers while explo”… more