First Films Announced for January 17

If you follow us on Twitter or Facebook, you’ll know a few of these by now, but I wanted to officially announce the first batch of films screening at our January 17, 2013 edition. We’ll be back at the Carlton Cinemas, and advance tickets ($8) are already on sale. See you in the new year! […]

October 11: That’s a Wrap!

What a great night! I think we might have broken our attendance record last night with a packed house at the Carlton Cinema. Thanks to all who made it out, and to those who missed it, see you in January! We might have to book a larger room by the look of it. Special thanks […]

Full(ish) Program for October 11 Screening

We’re waiting to hear back from one more filmmaker, but I figured you’d like to see the shape of our program, since our screening is just ONE WEEK AWAY! If you can’t figure it out already, I’m insanely excited about this particular slate of films, since I put it together all by myself. Normally, the […]

TIFF 2012 Shorts: A (Generous) Selection

(cross-posted from my other blog Toronto Screen Shots) One of the more unique aspects of the Toronto International Film Festival is that its shorts programme is all-Canadian. And it’s a great showcase for young Canadian talent. Some of these filmmakers may go on to make features, but as a lover of the short film format, […]

First Films Announced for October 11

The Cub I’m very excited to let you know the first two films in our October 11th lineup! Riley Stearns’ THE CUB came to us through our submission process, which made me very happy indeed. The film has been submitted to a number of high-profile festivals, but it’s quite possible that we are going to […]

Closeup: (notes on) biology

Buy tickets for our July 13 screening, where we’ll be screening (notes on) biology Georgians Danny Madden, Will Madden and Jonathan Silva formed their collective Ornana Films while they were still in high school (and I suspect that wasn’t that long ago, either). The story of Ornana is an interesting one. In their own words: […]

Full Program for July 13 Screening

I’m happy to announce our full program for July 13. We’ll be showing a film from local filmmaker Alex Kingsmill and one from young Australian filmmaker Andrew Kavanagh in addition to the Future Shorts pop up festival slate. Over the next few weeks, I’ll be sharing more information about each film individually, but for now, […]

At The Formal will screen on July 13

I’m extremely pleased to announce the first film to be featured in our July 13 programme. When I saw Andrew Kavanagh’s short At The Formal several months ago, I immediately knew I wanted to share it with an audience. The film has played several prestigious film festivals at home in Kavanagh’s native Australia and abroad, […]

Toronto Shorts Added to April 13 Program

Buy tickets for our April 13 screening I’m very pleased to announce that we will be adding two films from local filmmakers to our April 13 program. A few weeks back, I attended a screening of the T24 Project, an initiative of the Toronto Youth Shorts Festival in which teams of filmmakers had just 24 […]

Closeup: Trotteur

Buy tickets for our April 13 screening I was fortunate to see Francis Leclerc and Arnaud Brisebois’ short film Trotteur back in January at the Canada’s Top Ten screening at TIFF Bell Lightbox, and knew I had to share it with our Shorts That Are Not Pants audience. Arnaud Brisebois has worked doing visual effects […]