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2022 Festival Awards

Our fifth annual festival was held last month, in-person here in Toronto and virtually once again across Canada. I’m so 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 […]

Full 2022 Lineup Revealed

Here’s the moment we’ve all been waiting for. I’m delighted to share the full lineup for our 2022 hybrid festival, which will be screened in-person at Innis Town Hall in Toronto from November 18-20, and online all across Canada from November 21-27 on the Eventive Virtual platform. Thanks are in order to our amazing programming […]

2021 Festival Awards

Our fourth annual festival was held last month, virtually once again across Canada. I’m so 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 their […]

Full 2021 Lineup Revealed

Here’s the moment we’ve all been waiting for. I’m delighted to share the full lineup for our 2021 (virtual) festival, which will be screened online all across Canada from November 19-28 on the Eventive Virtual platform. Thanks are in order to our amazing programming team: Linda Taillon, Keith Klegman, Cameron Carpenter, Amanda Clarke, Diana Sernick, […]

2020 Festival Awards

Our third annual festival was held last month, virtually across Canada, and once more exceeded my expectations. 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 […]

Full 2020 Lineup Revealed

Here’s the moment we’ve all been waiting for. I’m delighted to share the full lineup for our 2020 (virtual) festival, which will be screened online all across Canada from November 13-22. Thanks are in order to our amazing programming team: Linda Taillon, Diana Sernick, Keith Klegman, Cameron Carpenter, Shelagh Rowan-Legg, Brennan Tilley, Ariane Molinatti, Iris […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]