Call for Submissions
Pleasure Dome is calling for submissions looking for new New Toronto Works to ring in 2013! Revealing the unique wealth of talent emerging in Toronto every year, New Toronto Works is looking for something extra special to celebrate 20 years of creative arts. Films and videos under 15 minutes in length and produced after January 2011 qualify. For submission guidelines and applications, check out the Pleasure Dome website. Deadline for submissions is Friday, February 22, 2013. Pleasure Dome takes pride in standing behind experimental, uncensored new media arts and has been a champion of artistic expression in film and video...
Hey filmmakers, if you thought it was time to sit back and rest now that TIFF is over, think again. Hot Docs has some upcoming deadlines right around the corner and you shouldn’t miss out. Firstly, documentary filmmakers hoping to make a splash in the 2013 festival take heed! The call for submissions is open, and Hot Docs wants your films. The early bird deadline is fast approaching, December 7, 2012. If you’re more of a tail-dragger, the final date for submissions is January 11, 2013. For projects that aren’t quite ready for submission yet, aren’t off the ground yet,...
Toronto Reel Asian Film Festival returns to this fair city for it’s 16th edition November 6-11, 2012, but submissions for this year’s fest have closed. However, there is still a chance to be a part of Reel Asian 2012 by entering their annual pitch competition. So You Think You Can Pitch, now in its seventh year, is a great opportunity to get your film finished — so get your pitches ready now! The deadline to enter the competition is September 21, 2012. After that, selected film teams will go through an “intensive boot camp” to learn how to best pitch...
Did your latest film or television production go green? If so, Planet in Focus invites you to apply for the Green Screen Award sponsored by Astral’s Harold Greenberg Fund. This award will be given to a film or television production that has demonstrated and implemented an effort in putting environmental awareness front and center in its production practices. This award is unique, being the first of its kind in Canada, and aims to highlight the role that the film and television industry is playing in the environmental movement in Canada. “Around the world, the film and television industry is searching...
Early last month saw the announcement of the inaugural Monsters & Martians Science Fiction Film Festival. The festival, having a uniquely apt name, will be devoted to showcasing Science Fiction films, shorts, and docs from filmmakers all over the world. It will be the first festival in Toronto to promote new works within the genre without requiring they be a hybrid of horror or comedy. Monsters & Martians was announced at Constellation Awards in Thornhill, cleverly calling for submissions in celebration of the 65th anniversary of the Roswell UFO incident, which happened on July 8, 1947 (or did it?). The...
The Canadian Film Centre (CFC) has two announcements to make. First, the three-year-old CFC Telefilm Features Comedy Lab is no more (aww). However, it will be replaced by the CFC Telefilm Feature Comedy Exchange (yay!), in collaboration with Just for Laughs. The program exists to increase exposure and develop talent of Canada’s comedic filmmakers, aiming to provide business and promotional opportunities, while helping to showcase Canadian work on an international scale. The Comedy Exchange works closely with Telefilm to provide funding for its projects, as well as providing business and creative advice to the aspiring artists. Applicants must be Canadian...
It’s almost time once again for the yearly Rendezvous with Madness Film Festival, which, of course, means that it is already time for them to be accepting film submissions. The deadline is August 17, 2012, so get submitting! The Rendezvous with Madness Film Festival aims to increase awareness and prompt dialogue on mental health issues. They screen Canadian and International films to spark dialogue and create awareness about all elements of mental health, from drug use to schizophrenia. With respect to that, submissions should ideally involve aspects mental health or addiction issues. The festival accepts films from any genre, both...
Hey there aspiring filmmakers of Toronto, here’s an opportunity you aren’t going to want to miss. The Toronto Super Pitch Bowl is giving you the opportunity to meet a Hollywood producer at TIFF and pitch your film idea. This could be your once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to go from indie to pro in a heartbeat. To enter, visit the contest’s Facebook page and post your film’s elevator pitch: its logline. The three ideas with the most public “likes” will be asked for a more detailed pitch. The winner will then be selected from those three and will get some face time with...
Opening this Friday, July 27, 2012 at Bloor Hot Docs Cinema are two great docs for arts lovers, United States of Africa and Joffrey: Mavericks of American Dance. United States of Africa is the fourth film from director Yanick Létourneau, who follows subject Didier Awadi as he crafts a hip hop album dedicated to great black revolutionary leaders who have struggled to make their dream of a united Africa a reality. This film won the Critics’ Choice award at the Montreal International Documentary Festival in 2011, and as a co-production of the National Film Board, this is one doc you...
Now that the Toronto After Dark Summer Screenings are over, it’s time to turn our attention to the main event: the seventh annual Toronto After Dark Film Festival, running October 18-26, 2012. The deadline to submit film details is this Friday, July 20, 2012. Users of Withoutabox have the deadline extended by a week, until Friday, July 27, 2012. Filmmakers who have applied in writing by those dates have until August 3, 2012, to have a screener of the film in to Toronto After Dark, and that can be done either with a physical copy or online using any video...
Hey, remember this? Just over a month ago, pUNK Films and the Royal Cinema announced the $1000 Feature Film Challenge, asking for submissions from Toronto based filmmakers. The response was excellent, with an impressive 34 submissions received. Looks like there’s a ton of talent right here in our own backyard. Financed through box office proceeds from June screenings of i am a good person/i am a bad person at The Royal, this awesome micro-finance film incubation project from filmmaker Ingrid Veninger and The Royal’s Stacey Donen, also included a Master Class with indie filmmaker Amos Poe for all those who...
The ReelWorld Film Festival takes place every spring, but after the festival hoopla is over, they change their focus to providing a forum for emerging film talent, opening doors to the Canadian and international film community. So, all you emerging and diverse filmmaking talent, listen up: it’s time to get your submission in! Each year ReelWorld picks the Emerging 20 (aka “E20″) – that’s 20 emerging producers, directors, screenwriters or actors chosen based on their projects, potential and previous experience in the film industry. These lucky few get to participate in the annual Indie Film Lounge in September, which includes...
