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Now available - Found Footage Magazine #11 - Online edition expcinema.org/site/en/rele...

Charitable Choices: Chris Kennedy of LIFT LIFT has evolved from a small collective into a leading Toronto hub offering equipment, education, and community support for independent filmmakers.

Charitable Choices, Liaison of Independent Filmmakers of Toronto,: torontoguardian.com/2025/12/toro...

🎬🫰 #GivingTuesdayCA is TODAY (December 2, 2025). The Liaison of Independent Filmmakers of Toronto has set the long goal of $45,000 by their 45th birthday on April 8, 2026 & half of that by the end of the year!

Thanks for keeping LIFT in your year-end giving plans.
Donate via: www.lift.ca/donate

2025 Festival - the8fest Small-Gauge Film Festival the8fest 2025 the8fest 2025Things are looking a little different this year — but as always, we’re here to celebrate small-gauge with you!Friday, November 28 · 7–11 PMOwls Club 847 Dovercourt Rd,…

🎱 November 27-29 in Toronto, ON: the8fest Small-Gauge Film Festival, a unique film festival that presents all forms of small-gauge film: 8mm, Super 8 and 9.5mm.
Don't miss the shorts screening on Nov 29 w/ films by CFMDC members Rennie Taylor & Larissa Fan.

VUCAVU logo overlaid onto a multicoloured background, over black.

Black text on yellow background with more details about VUCAVU.education.

Discover our new VUCAVU.education postcards designed by Emily Woudenberg from Strike Design Studio, featuring a still from Caroline Blais’ film “Étoiles” (available for VOD on VUCAVU). We’re pleased to pay Caroline for using their image and are dedicated to building VUCAVU in community with artists.

Toronto On Screen for Wed Nov 5, 2025 A daily compendium of repertory, one-off and festival screenings happening in Toronto plus selected films in release at the city's independent cinemas. Click Read Notes for further details on each mov...

Today - Joyce Wieland's REASON OVER PASSION at Lightbox, Reel Asian begins w/ Kid Koala's SPACE CADET at Hot Docs, Paradise welcomes Charlie Kaufman & Eva HD for HOW TO SHOOT A GHOST, anime PERFECT BLUE and Paid in Sweat pick BLACK SWAN at Revue, more! Rundown: letterboxd.com/torontoplex/... #toRep

Altogether Without - Film Screening - Works by Tomonari Nishikawa & Vincent Grenier. November 8th, 17h - SET Lewisham, London expcinema.org/site/en/even...

Masked at the Movies presents FACES PLACES A mask-mandatory screening of FACES PLACES (2017).

Toronto friends! Masked at the Movies is back on November 25 with the charming, life-affirming, wholesome FACES PLACES. Hope to see you there! 💕

Free tickets and details 👇

Reason Over Passion TIFF is a charitable cultural organization with a mission to transform the way people see the world, through film.

November 5 in Toronto, ON: Joyce Wieland’s La raison avant la passion/Reason over Passion (1967–69). Introduction by film preservationist Stephen Broomer.
Wednesday, November 5, 6:30pm at TIFF Lightbox.

November 6 in Toronto, ON: The TAIS Animation Showcase celebrates the best independent animation shorts from across the country and around the world. Including films by CFMDC members Francisca Duran, Richard Reeves, Robin Riad (still), & Emily Pelstring.
Thursday, November 6, pm at The Royal Cinema

Program – TILDE WE ACKNOWLEDGE THAT WE ARE ON TRADITIONAL LANDS OF THE WURUNDJERI WOI WURRUNG PEOPLE OF THE KULIN NATION. WE OFFER OUR RESPECT TO THE ELDERS OF THESE TRADITIONAL LANDS AND, THROUGH THEM, TO ALL…

TOMORROW in Melbourne, Australia:
Vivek Shraya’s “Bodyrebuilding” screens in TILDE Saturday, November 1 as part of Session 4: International Shorts. Shraya’s poetic short explores how diversity work led to chronic pain and a journey to healing through weightlifting.

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Looking for something spooky to dive into this Halloween? 🎃🧡

Check out these Indigenous-made recommendations from the imagineNATIVE staff:

Poetic Proclamations - Short Films by Workman Arts Members - Workman Arts Screening as part of the 2025 Rendezvous with Madness Festival, “Poetic Proclamations’’ features nine films exploring a wide palette of creations including documentary, fiction, animation, spoken…

TOMORROW in Toronto, ON: We’re excited to be co-presenting the program "Poetic Proclamations" as part of @workmanartsto ’s 33rd Annual Rendezvous with Madness Festival, happening now until November 2, 2025!
Learn more at: workmanarts.com/rwm-events/p...
#RWM2025 #DisruptTheFocus

📌 Save the date Paris 2025 🔥
From 24 to 30 November 2025, the Rencontres Internationales Paris/Berlin will return to Paris. A new edition, a new journey through cinema, contemporary art and the moving image.
All info 👉 www.art-action.org/site/fr/prog...

Program – TILDE WE ACKNOWLEDGE THAT WE ARE ON TRADITIONAL LANDS OF THE WURUNDJERI WOI WURRUNG PEOPLE OF THE KULIN NATION. WE OFFER OUR RESPECT TO THE ELDERS OF THESE TRADITIONAL LANDS AND, THROUGH THEM, TO ALL…

October 31 - November 2 in Melbourne, Australia: TILDE Bites Back with three days of trans-authored cinema!
Vivek Shraya’s “Bodyrebuilding” screens Saturday, November 1 as part of Session 4: International Shorts.
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We’re excited to be co-presenting the program "Poetic Proclamations" as part of
@workmanartsto ’s 33rd Annual Rendezvous with Madness Festival, happening
now until November 2, 2025!
Learn more at: workmanarts.com/rwm-events/p...
#RWM2025 #DisruptTheFocus

Next A Flock Of Flickers session will be November 2!!!! Focus on super8 for beginners and eco developing! Don’t miss it!! aflockofflickers.wordpress.com
#aflockofflickers #super8webinar #super8 #super8workshop #super8film #super8forbeginners #caffenol #super8fakeapp

fixed in place - Factory Media Centre fixed in place is an exhibition by interdisciplinary artist Morgan Sears-Williams.

🌊 ON NOW until November 30 in Hamilton, ON: Dandelion and Factory Media Centre present Morgan Sears-Williams' solo exhibit, fixed in place, an exploration of the geological and personal erosion occurring at Hanlan’s Point Beach on the Toronto Islands.

Today Oct 17h, 6pm at Antimatter [media art] 6pm at Deluge, Victoria, Canada.

Tomorrow a free online screening saturday for 24 hours:

antimatter.squarespace.com/daily-progra...

In memory of the fallen in Gaza, the stars.

Em memórias os caídos em Gaza, as estrelas. 🍉

October News: SO Many Screenings & Events! Friday, October 3, 7pm: LIFT & BAICC Screening and Performance: Spanish Films Made in Residence at LIFT. Live 16mm film performances by Álvaro Feldman and Brenda Boyer and four short films. With Ángel...

ICYMI: CFMDC Film News is out! Read for info on screenings, opportunities and CineCycle events 🎟️

Felino From household cats to mythical panthers, from jaguars in the forest to lions in legend, felines have always prowled through our stories.

ON NOW: Labocine's October Issue FELINO features films & essays which explore the feline world in all its forms! Including CFMDC films: Breakfast with Gus by Siobhan Devine; Travelling Eye of the Blue Cat by Shawn Atkins; Cat Food by Joyce Wieland.

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Upcoming Toronto Screenings - Oct 3 - 9, 2025 A weekly compendium of repertory, one-off and festival screenings happening in Toronto over the next week. Usually drops on Wednesdays. Further details on each movie can be found in the notes (click '...

On Deck - Dogs, mummies, mermaids, witches, monsters, vampires, werewolves, ghosts, killers, seekers, filmmakers, artists, teachers, musicians, cartoons and more. Screening soon in Toronto: letterboxd.com/torontoplex/... #toRep

2025 Festival | WNDX The WNDX Festival of Moving Image runs Oct 1-5, 2025 in Winnipeg, Canada. Program details will be posted in early September.

Starting TODAY: WNDX Festival of Moving Image returns!
Check out CFMDC shorts in programs "Open Call 1: All Our Arms Have Held" for Karly McCloskey's film Marrow of my Bones and "Open Call 5: wndrlnd" for Richard Reeves' Fusion and Rita Tse's Serene Hues.

The Exacting Magic of Film Restoration Each year, at a festival in Bologna, movies that were once lost or damaged come back to life.

Basically, if movies were people, whether foreign or Italian-born, Bologna is where they would choose to live. https://loom.ly/LtrmC3M

🌟 September 27 in Vancouver, BC: Light of a Thousand Stars, short film screening programmed by Diffusion Festival and hosted by The Bucket Collective. Faraz Anoushahpour and Scott Miller Berry in attendance! tix here: bit.ly/46UGxcI

2025 Festival | WNDX The WNDX Festival of Moving Image runs Oct 1-5, 2025 in Winnipeg, Canada. Program details will be posted in early September.

🌸 October 1-5 in Winnipeg, MB: WNDX Festival of Moving Image returns!
Check out CFMDC shorts in programs "Open Call 1: All Our Arms Have Held" for Karly McCloskey's film Marrow of my Bones and "Open Call 5: wndrlnd" for Richard Reeves' Fusion and Rita Tse's Serene Hues.

Décollements A selection of films in which the film's skin is lacerated, torn, cut, peeled off, and glued back together to create cinematic works that evoke sensations of memory, resurfacing buried memories.

Braquage presents Décollements - Films by Fontaine, Devaux, Battle, Shimane, Bourque, Schneemann. September 21st, 19h - Espace en Cours, Paris expcinema.org/site/en/even...

Speaking of film formats, I recently published an article on Pola-Lite, a largely unnoticed and under-researched single-strip 3-D format, in Film Atlas, an encyclopedia of every film format ever.

I had a blast researching this. It has everything! Monsters, Douglas Sirk, questionable origin stories!