Toronto Urban Film Festival

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Join TTC Chair Karen Stintz, Michael Girgis, President and CEO, Onestop Media Group and Sharon Switzer, Executive Director, TUFF

Date: Friday, September 9, 2011 at 10:30 AM (Sharp!)

Location: The Southbound Platform, Dundas Station - Access through Dundas Square at southeast corner of Dundas and Yonge or through the Eaton Centre main entrance

RSVP: Marie Nazar  I  Tel: 416-762-7702  I  Email: mnazar@idirect.ca

Screening Room

Hours: 11am - 5pm, Friday Sept. 16th - Sunday Sept. 18th. Location: DRAKE Hotel, 1150 Queen Street West

Don’t take the subway?  Want to watch TUFF films in comfort? Gather some friends or stop by on your own, and spend an hour with TUFF. All 8 programs will be projected in a 67 minute loop in Room 222 at the Drake Hotel. Grab a drink, relax, and enjoy some of the best ultra-short short films around. 

Admittance is free.

Panel Discussion

Urban Screens: Creating for an Urban Public

Date: Wednesday Sept. 14th, 6pm.  Location: DRAKE Hotel, 1150 Queen Street West, Toronto ON

Join our panelists Rebecca Carbin, Angie Driscoll, and Janine Marchessault in a lively discussion about urban screens, the new artforms and genres they are engendering, as well as the issues at stake in producing for a ‘general’ public audience. Moderated by Sharon Switzer. 

Admittance is free.

Before her current role coordinating the Public Art Office for the City of Toronto, Rebecca Carbin curated a number of permanent and temporary public art programs in London UK which included architectural collaborations, commissions, artists-in-residence, education projects and video programs. Rebecca worked with several art organizations in London and has participated on panels about art in public places in both London and Toronto. Rebecca holds a Masters in Curating from Goldsmiths College, London. 

Angie Driscoll has programmed and managed a variety of film festivals, including the Toronto International Film Festival, the Canadian Film Centre’s Worldwide Short Film Festival and Hot Docs Canadian International Documentary Festival. Currently she programs international documentary features for Hot Docs, and is the Programming Manager at the CFC's Worldwide Short Film Festival where she programs films that appear in official competition, as well as curating genre-specific programmes. 

Janine Marchessault is a Canada Research Chair in Art, Digital Media and Globalization at York University. She is the author of Marshall McLuhan: Cosmic Media and is the (co)editor of several collections including Fluid Screens, Expanded Cinema. She is a founder of the Future Cinema Lab which is devoted to “new stories for new screens”; and the Director of www.visiblecity.ca which examines artists’ cultures in the context of globalization. She is a founding member of Public Access, a curatorial collective that seeks to experiment with the public places available for the display and experience of art works.

Awards Party

Date: Sunday Sept. 18th, 6 - 10pm. Awards start at 7pm. Location: DRAKE Hotel, 1150 Queen Street West

A night for our local filmmakers to network and have fun! A night to celebrate this year’s TUFF films and the talent behind them! It is surprisingly tough to make a silent one-minute film, and TUFF applauds all of our filmmakers. Join our jury and guest judge Atom Egoyan as we give out awards and some amazing prizes, to this year’s best films.

Admittance by invitation.

DRAKE HOTEL-  416.531.5042 - thedrakehotel.ca