Screenings and Exhibitions
LIFT presents occasional screenings and exhibitions of work in Toronto and beyond. We also regularly co-present screenings and exhibitions with other organizations to support an engaged and rigorous media-arts ecology. We can assist hundreds of films each year but without venues and distributors to help them reach the public this work doesn’t have the life it deserves. We our fortunate to live in a city with over 100 film festivals each year, numerous year round programmers and dozens of galleries showing media arts.
For inquiries regarding presentation and co-presentation opportunities please contact us.
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Call for Submissions: LIFT Round-Up 2017Friday 6 July 2018 –LIFT ANNOUNCES CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS MEMBERS’ ROUND-UP 2017 July 6, 2018—The Liaison of Independent Filmmakers of Toronto (LIFT) announces its Call for Submissions for its annual Members’ Round-Up. LIFT is a member-driven non-profit organization that provides affordable access to equipment, education and space for those who want to make films, out o”… more |
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Summer 2018 Studio Immersion Program – Laser Light: The Films of Sabine GruffatWednesday 13 June 2018 –Amarillo Ramp directed by Sabine Gruffat (and Bill Brown) SUMMER 2018 STUDIO IMMERSION PROGRAM LASER LIGHT: THE FILMS OF SABINE GRUFFAT The program will feature a selection of her work, including the Man Ray-inspired A Return to A Return to Reason (2014) and Framelines (2017), which both use a laser cutter to etch imagery into the emulsion of 35mm”… more |
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LIFT co-presents “Local Heroes” program at Inside OutThursday 31 May 2018 –The Morning After by Tricia Hagoriles LIFT co-presents the “Local Heroes” program at the 2018 Inside Out Toronto LGBT Film Festival. From familiar faces to fresh meat, this is our annual collection of some of the best this great city has to offer. Cherry Cola by Joseph Amenta Vertical Lines by Kyle Reaume Queen of Hearts by Lindsey Addawoo and Kyis”… more |
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LIFT co-presents “Take Light” at Hot DocsFriday 27 April 2018 –LIFT co-presents Take Light at the 2018 Hot Docs Canadian International Documentary Festival Take Light Dir. Shasha Nakhai Friday April 27 @ 6:45 PM, Hart House Theatre Tuesday May 1 @ 3:15 PM, Scotiabank Theatre 3 Thursday May 3 @ 6:30 PM, Scotiabank Theatre 3 Over 50 per cent of Nigeria’s nearly 200 million citizens don’t have access to electrici”… more |
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LIFT co-presents “Redacting Bodies: Local Shorts Program” at Images FestivalThursday 19 April 2018 –Stroke by Wang Weibin LIFT co-presents Redacting Bodies: Local Shorts Program at the 2018 Images Festival Co-presented in partnership with Liaison of Independent Filmmakers of Toronto (LIFT), MANO-RAMO and the8fest Curated by Alexandra Gelis If redaction is a process of editing documents, in which the removal of sensitive information is typically r”… more |
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LIFT co-presents “FROM A TO Z ” – Screening and Exhibition in ViennaFriday 20 April 2018 –Poster by Madi Piller and Daniel Browne The Liaison of Independent Filmmakers of Toronto (LIFT) co-presents FROM A TO Z Film screening and Exhibition in Vienna April 20, 2018 Screening at Blickle Kino at Belvedere21 7pm – 9pm Arsenalstraße 1, 1030 Wien April 21, 2018 Exhibit at Setzkasten and Zwischendecke 7pm Hernalser Hauptstraße 29/4 and 31, 117″… more |
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LIFT co-presents “Toronto: Back and Forth” at Society for Cinema and Media StudiesThursday 15 March 2018 –The Big Adventure by Colin Strayer Society for Cinema and Media Studies’ (SCMS) 2018 Conference York University’s School of the Arts, Media, Performance & Design, SCMS’ CinemArts Scholarly Interest Group and Experimental Film and Media Scholarly Interest Group, York University’s Graduate Film Student Association, The City Institute at York Univ”… more |
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LIFT co-presents “It’s All Fun & Games Until Somebody Breaks a Rule” program at the 8 FestFriday 26 January 2018 –Disney Attraction Highlights Nº 1 by Stanley Sunday a.k.a. David Domingo a.k.a. Davidson LIFT co-presents at the 8 Fest 2018 It’s All Fun & Games Until Somebody Breaks a Rule Curated by Cameron Moneo The works in this programme demonstrate the humour that often arises when we play together—and when we don’t abide by the rules. From spontaneous”… more |
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LIFT Debuts Films from Artist Commission: The Madvo CollectionTuesday 23 January 2018 –3 Dreams of Horses by Mike Hoolboom LIFT DEBUTS EIGHT COMMISSIONED FILMS MADE FROM THE MADVO COLLECTION Toronto, January 12, 2018—In 2014, the Liaison of Independent Filmmakers of Toronto received a donation of a 200-reel collection of the films and outtakes of local documentary filmmaker Jacques Madvo. Madvo travelled the world from the 1960s to t”… more |
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Winter 2018 Studio Immersion Program – Presentation with Sally Walker-HudeckiThursday 11 January 2018 –WINTER 2018 STUDIO IMMERSION PROGRAM PRESENTATION WITH SALLY WALKER-HUDECKI Join us for a free public presentation with artist Sally Walker-Hudecki, related to her residency for the LIFT and PIX FILM Winter 2018 Studio Immersion program. Sally will demonstrate her CineVinyl Record-Jector (her protoype record player / Super 8mm film projector), desc”… more |