Going Virtual For 2020!
Despite our fervent hopes, it doesn’t look like we’ll be back in cinemas by November, so we’ve made the decision to take our festival virtual for 2020. We’re not the first festival to make this decision, and that’s good news for several reasons. First of all, we’ve been fortunate to be working with a trusted […]
A Message
As awful as some of the images on the news have been lately, we are encouraged by the outpouring of righteous anger and the desire for constructive change. But the events that incited the protests have been happening for many many years, both here in Canada and around the world, and things won’t change overnight. […]
Call for Entries 2020
Did you know our call for entries is now open? We’d love to see your short films under 20 minutes in any of these categories: narrative, documentary, or animation. Our Early Bird deadline is March 27 and that means that fees are the lowest they’re going to be, so hurry up and submit! BONUS: If […]
2019 Festival Awards
Our second annual festival was held this past weekend, and exceeded my expectations once again. I’m grateful to our staff, volunteers, audience, and especially to our filmmakers, and I want to recognize those films awarded by our juries and audience. Thank you to all our jury members for their hard work and for lending us […]
2019 Festival Juries
With the festival kicking off in a few days, I’d like to introduce the good people who are helping us determine our three juried award winners. We’ll be giving away a total of $1,000 in prize money with the help of our audiences, as well as these fine industry leaders. Narrative Jury Liane Cunje Liane […]
Full 2019 Program Revealed
This actually happened a few days ago now, but I realized we hadn’t posted anything here. Here’s the press release we sent out. _____ Full 2019 Lineup Announced Shorts festival will screen 47 short films, with more than half by female directors Toronto, Ontario – October 17, 2019 47 films from around the world. Narrative […]
Interview: Caoimhe Clancy (Coco Dreams of Blue)
Time for another sneak peek at our 2019 festival lineup. Coco Dreams of Blue was shot in Dublin and edited (at a public library!) in Toronto. Here’s the synopsis: “Clodagh has checked out. She works in a print studio in Dublin making slogans about life. She parties a lot, maybe too much. She doesn’t want […]
2019 Festival Poster Premiere!
Very happy to share our poster art for this year’s festival. Once again, we have the wonderful Adam Waito to thank for his artwork. We’ll be doing postcards again and looking for help distributing them around the city. In the meantime, we’d love if you could share this digital postcard far and wide on your […]
Interview: Yves Piat (Nefta Football Club)
Today we begin revealing some highlights from our 2019 lineup, with the full slate to be announced in the weeks to come. First up, Yves Piat, director of the funny and charming Nefta Football Club, whose synopsis reads: “In the south of Tunisia, two football fan brothers bump into a donkey lost in the middle […]
Expanding Our Reach
We love FilmFreeway. We were one of the first festivals to use this (Canadian!) film submission platform when it launched, and we continue to rely on it for quality film submissions. But we were finding that we weren’t receiving as many non-English language films as we’d like. After conducting a bit of research, we’ve decided […]