Programming

LIFT Production Support Grant 2008 LIFT’s PRODUCTION SUPPORT GRANT 2008 In an effort to foster independent filmmaking, LIFT has made $16,000 in equipment credits available to eligible Associate and Full members. The funds are intended for production or post-production purposes. A single project can receive a maximum of $2,000 in equipment credits. Filmmakers at all levels of experie”… more

LIFT OUT LOUD: June Shorts Reading The LIAISON OF INDEPENDENT FILMMAKERS OF TORONTO present A Bi-Monthly Screenplay Reading Series With Guest Moderator KEN FINKLEMAN (The Newsroom) “SMOKE SCREENS” Two short screenplays about deception INTERRUPTED GIRL by Richard Pierre and SPIN by Ran Lewin JUNE LIFT OUT LOUD Date: Wednesday, June 4, 2008 Time: 7:00 pm Admission: $5.00 Location: XPA”… more

CALL FOR APPLICATIONS: imagineNATIVE and LIFT Mentorship 2008 imagineNATIVE and LIFT Mentorship 2008, Toronto CALL FOR APPLICATIONS Deadline: May 9, 2008 Click here to download a Call for Proposals as a PDF (124 KB) CALL FOR PROPOSALS – Make a short film for imagineNATIVE ’08! imagineNATIVE and LIFT Mentorship 2008, Toronto CALL FOR APPLICATIONS Deadline: May 9, 2008 Click here to download a Call for Proposal”… more

LIFT Workshop Screening and Film Jam Come and get inspired by LIFT workshop films! TUESDAY JUNE 10 DOORS AT 8 PM As the Spring-Summer workshop calendar kicks off, here’s your chance to see what the Fall and Winter classes got up to. For the first time ever, LIFT gathers all our recent completed workshop films for an evening viewing party. Come and get inspired by LIFT workshop films!”… more

LIFT OUT LOUD April Feature Reading The LIAISON OF INDEPENDENT FILMMAKERS OF TORONTO presents A Bi-Monthly Screenplay Reading Series With Guest Moderator SEMI CHELLAS (The Eleventh Hour, The Life Before This, Picture Claire) Featuring SHIFT written by Vincent Shiao ** DATE CHANGE FOR APRIL READING ** Date: Wednesday, April 9, 2008 Time: 7:00 pm Admission: $5.00 Location: XPACE, 58 Os”… more

SCREENWRITERS’ CIRCLE LIFT’s Screenwriters’ Circle Next Meeting: September 2008 Location: To be determined More details to be posted once they are confirmed. All LIFT Members interested in writing for the screen are invited to attend the writers group meeting. No experience is necessary, just a passion for words and images and a dream to one day see them on screen. The”… more

LIFT OUT LOUD February Shorts Reading The LIAISON OF INDEPENDENT FILMMAKERS OF TORONTO presents LIFT OUT LOUD: February Reading A Bi-Monthly Screenplay Reading Series With Guest Moderator TBA STUDENT LIFT OUT LOUD Scripts to be announced ** NEW DATE FOR FEBRUARY READING ** Date: Wednesday, February 13, 2008 Time: 7:00 pm Admission: $5.00 Location: XPACE, 58 Ossington Avenue (just north”… more

LIFT OUT LOUD December Shorts Reading The LIAISON OF INDEPENDENT FILMMAKERS OF TORONTO presents LIFT OUT LOUD: December Reading A Bi-Monthly Screenplay Reading Series With Guest Moderator TBA FAMILY TIES Two short screenplays for the holiday season PUSHING DONALD written by Anthony Wong THE AUCTION written by Gloria Kim Date: Wednesday, December 5, 2007 Time: 7:00 pm Admission: $5.00 L”… more

Call For Submissions — Cinema and Disjunction Thursday 15 November 2007 – disjunction: the act of disjoining or condition of being disjoined; separation, disunion. The relation of the terms of a disjunctive proposition. fr dissociation. —Webster’s Dictionary   disjunction: the act of disjoining or condition of being disjoined; separation, disunion. The relation of the terms of a disjunctive proposition. fr dissociat”… more

Poetry Projections II Sunday 21 October 2007 – LIFT in collaboration with the International Festival of Authors (IFOA) present: POETRY PROJECTIONS IISunday, October 21, 2007 3:00pm – 5:00pm  LIFT in collaboration with the International Festival of Authors (IFOA) present: POETRY PROJECTIONS IISunday, October 21, 2007 3:00pm – 5:00pm  York Quay Centre, Studio Theatre Harbourfront Centre”… more