The Toronto Queer Film Festival is an LGBT film festival held annually in Toronto, Ontario, Canada.[1] Launched in 2016 by a collective of artists and activists who perceived the programming of the city's established Inside Out Film and Video Festival to be too mainstream and commercialized, the event stages a program of independent feature and short films and videos over several days in the fall of each year, focusing primarily on works created from an alternative or activist perspective.[2]
The event is staged primarily on the campus of OCAD University, with some screenings also taking place at the Art Gallery of Ontario's Jackman Hall.[3]
As a result of the COVID-19 pandemic in Toronto, the festival launched the Queer Emergencies Fund to offer grants to LGBT filmmakers for the creation of new short works.[4]
References
edit- ^ "A podcast festival, Meghan Markle's wedding choir, and nine other things to do in Toronto this week". Toronto Life, November 4, 2019.
- ^ Chris Dupuis, "How the Toronto Queer Film Festival is shaking up Pride Month". Daily Xtra, June 9, 2017.
- ^ "Toronto Queer Film Festival". Now, November 7, 2019.
- ^ Peter Knegt, "Feeling inspired in your quarantine? This queer film fest is raising money to pay you to create work". CBC Arts, April 8, 2020.
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