Programming
Displayed here is a partial list of LIFT programming and co-presentations going back to 2004. Entries are sorted by date, with the most recent first. The sub-menu provides a quick view of each program offered by LIFT and our calls for submissions.
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Open Screening – August 2025Thursday 28 August 2025, 07:00 to 08:30. THE LIAISON OF INDEPENDENT FILMMAKERS OF TORONTO (LIFT) ANNOUNCES OPEN SCREENING – AUGUST 2025 August 14, 2025—Join the Liaison of Independent Filmmakers of Toronto (LIFT) on Thursday, August 28, 2025 in the Main Classroom at the LIFT facility (located at 1137 Dupont) for our August 2025 Open Screening. The event is an opportunity to show new fil”… more |
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LIFT co-presents “Naked Acts” at Black Gold screening seriesSaturday 16 August 2025, 18:00 to 19:00. LIFT co-presents “Naked Acts” at the 2025 Black Gold screening series “Naked Acts” Directed by Bridgett M. Davis’ Saturday, August 16, 2025 Starts at 6:00pm Paradise Theatre, 1006c Bloor Street West Buy your tickets here “Davis’s film, made at a time when there were few Black women filmmakers, exalts the hard-won breakthrough of self-depiction, o”… more |
Screenwriters Circle – August 20Wednesday 20 August 2025, 19:00 to 19:00The LIFT Screenwriters Circle meets online on the third Wednesday at 7:00pm ET of each month to facilitate skill sharing, supportive critique and moving member scripts from the page to the screen. You must be a current LIFT member to attend this group. No experience is necessary, just a passion for words and images and a dream to one day see them o”… more |
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Open Screening – Summer 2025Tuesday 22 July 2025, 19:00 to 21:00THE LIAISON OF INDEPENDENT FILMMAKERS OF TORONTO (LIFT) ANNOUNCES OPEN SCREENING – SUMMER 2025 July 4, 2025—Join the Liaison of Independent Filmmakers of Toronto (LIFT) on Tuesday, July 22, 2025 in the Main Classroom at the LIFT facility (located at 1137 Dupont) for our Summer 2025 Open Screening. The event is an opportunity to show new films, audi”… more |
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LIFT co-presents Shorts Programme: “Dysfunctional Destinies” at Toronto Arab FilmSaturday 28 June 2025, 16:00 to 18:00LIFT co-presents Shorts Programme: “Dysfunctional Destinies” at the 2025 Toronto Arab Film Festival Shorts Programme: “Dysfunctional Destinies” Various Directors Saturday, June 28, 2025 at 4:00pm Innis Town Hall 2 Sussex Avenue Programme includes: “Blood Ties,” Hakim Atoui “If the sun drowned into an ocean of clouds,” Wissam Charaf “Möbius Loop,” L”… more |
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LIFT and imagineNATIVE 2024 Mentorship AnnouncementThursday 29 August 2024 – Sunday 15 June 20252024 LIFT and imagineNATIVE Mentorship Winner Kira Doxtator Photo by Renata Mohamed . THE LIAISON OF INDEPENDENT FILMMAKERS OF TORONTO (LIFT) AND THE IMAGINENATIVE FILM + MEDIA ARTS FESTIVAL 2024 MENTORSHIP ANNOUNCEMENT Toronto, June 6, 2025—Last fall, the imagineNATIVE Film + Media Arts Festival and the Liaison of Independent Filmmakers of Toronto”… more |
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LIFT co-presents “Shorts: Local Heroes” at Inside OutThursday 29 May 2025, 19:00 to 22:00LIFT co-presents “Shorts: Local Heroes” at the 2025 Inside Out Toronto 2SLGBTQ+ Film Festival “Shorts: Local Heroes” Various Directors Thursday, May 29, 2025 at 7:00pm TIFF Lightbox 1 350 King Street West Toronto takes over the screen! From healing journeys and tender friendships to zombie apocalypses and cat-sitting gone wrong, this program repres”… more |
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LIFT Digital Cinema Residency – 2025 Announcement. THE LIAISON OF INDEPENDENT FILMMAKERS OF TORONTO (LIFT) ANNOUNCES THE 2025 LIFT DIGITAL CINEMA RESIDENCY RECIPIENTS NOOR KHAN AND KURTIS WATSON Toronto, May 20, 2025—The Liaison of Independent Filmmakers of Toronto (LIFT) is pleased to announce that Noor Khan and Kurtis Watson were the 2025 Digital”… more |
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LIFT co-presents “They’re Here” at Hot DocsLIFT co-presents They’re Here at the 2025 Hot Docs Canadian International Documentary Festival “They’re Here” Dir. Daniel Claridge and Pacho Velez Friday, May 2, 2025 at 8:45pm TIFF Lightbox 1 350 King Street West Sunday, May 4, 2025 at 1:00pm Hot Docs Ted Rogers Cinema 506 Bloor Street West With life on Earth feeling increasingly uncertain, They’r”… more |
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Call for Applicants: LIFT and imagineNATIVE Mentorship Program 2025 – ExtendedMonday 14 April 2025 – Friday 11 July 2025April 14, 2025 Updated: July 7, 2025 Attention Indigenous filmmakers in the GTA with an original idea for a 16mm short film! Celebrating 20 years of supporting independent Indigenous film, the Liaison of Independent Filmmakers of Toronto (LIFT) is once again partnering with imagineNATIVE to give the selected participant a minimum of $10,000 and in-“… more |