Toronto Urban Film Festival

Silent One-Minute Films for an Urban Public - Sept. 9 - 18, 2011. 

Don't take the TTC? Watch the films here... Films are organized into programmes. Select a programme title on the homepage and then select a film. To locate a particular film, go to our 'TUFF on the TTC' page. 

The Toronto Urban Film Festival (TUFF), unique in North America, is a public film festival that reaches 1.3 million daily commuters on the ONESTOP TTC subway platform screens. This year's guest judge is Atom Egoyan. 

Urban-themed films from across Canada and around the world play every 10 minutes on 300 screens in 60 subways stations across Toronto.

This September the 5th annual TUFF will take place on the ONESTOP Network of subway platforms screens throughout the TTC. Each year, at the same time as TIFF, TUFF screens the best films from of hundreds of submissions. In 2011 we are raising the bar - showcasing truly unique and wholly creative film, video and animation.

TUFF is open to both Canadian and international submissions. All films screened are silent and exactly one-minute in length.

TUFF, the film festival for commuters, showcases all genres of film, video, and animation from both professional and emerging filmmakers. We ask filmmakers to submit work that will be of interest to an urban population. 

This year we are working with professional programmers to select the final films and program them into different days for our festival. Our Guest Judge then chooses the films which are awarded our top prizes. 

The film festival for commuters... every September in subway stations across Toronto.

FIVE YEARS AND STILL TUFF!

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TUFF ON THE TTC

TUFF plays every on the network of over 300 TTC subway platform screens across the city. In addition to screening every 10 minutes across the network, we now have screens in 3 downtown stations which air uninterrupted TUFF content all day long for the entire run of the festival: Bloor (north and southbound platforms), St Andrew (southbound platform), and Dundas (southbound platform). 

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TUFF ONLINE

Finalists are featured on the TUFF website, where viewing and voting takes place during the festival. Films are also available year-round, which means that have an ever-growing library of TUFF films from past festivals. We encourage viewers to rate and comment on all the films in our collection throughout the year. 

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TUFF is co-produced by ONESTOP Media Group and Art for Commuters - CONTACT TUFF

About Art for Commuters (A4C) - www.art4commuters.com

Art for Commuters is a non-profit arts collective that initiates unique, thought-provoking projects in the public realm. As ONESTOP Media Group's community arts programming partner, they bring urban art festivals and competitions to over 1 million people daily on the ONESTOP network of screens throughout the TTC subway system. Projects include: Contacting Toronto, Earth Day's Every Day Heroes Film Competition, The Toronto Urban Film Festival, and DRIFT (part of Nuit Blanche). Art for Commuters was founded in 2007 by Sharon Switzer. Art for Commuters collective members: Jean-Paul Kelly, Lori Newdick, Claire Sykes, Sharon Switzer.

About ONESTOP Media Group - www.onestopmediagroup.com

Onestop Media Group is a world leader in the development, operation and innovation of Digital Out-of-Home Media. Onestop owns and operates Canada's largest portfolio of Digital Out of  Home (DOOH) properties, collectively reaching a Canadian audience of over 2,000,000 viewers daily. Onestop is constantly expanding its DOOH portfolio through qualified new partnerships, joint ventures, and strategic acquisitions. For more information on Onestop's National portfolio of DOOH Networks visit: onestopmedia.com