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Winners Announced For 5th Annual Toronto Urban Film Festival (TUFF)

Toronto Filmmakers Take Top Three Awards

As Selected By Guest Judge Atom Egoyan 

 

Toronto Urban Film Festival (TUFF) Launches 5th Silent Film Festival

One-Minute Films Return to Subway Platform Screens 

And Locate at Toronto’s Hippest Venue, The Drake Hotel

September 9 - 18, 2011

SAVE THE DATE for a Bit of TUFF Love

Launch the 5th Annual Toronto Urban Film Festival (TUFF) with TTC Chair Karen Stintz, Joe Donaldson, VP of Marketing, Pattison Outdoor and Sharon Switzer, Executive Director, TUFF

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

The Southbound Platform, Dundas Station *

- The “underground” alternative to TIFF 

- Silent, one-minute films screened on platform screens through the Toronto subway

Award-Winning Filmmaker Atom Egoyan To Guest Judge Fifth Annual Toronto Urban Film Festival (TUFF)

Award-Winning Filmmaker Atom Egoyan To Guest Judge Fifth Annual Toronto Urban Film Festival (TUFF)

Call For Submissions Deadline: July 15, 2011

Toronto Urban Film Festival Winners Announced

Onestop and Art for Commuters announce TUFF award winners at Closing Party

Toronto, Ontario [September 19, 2010] - The winners of this year's 4th annual Toronto Urban Film Festival (TUFF) which played on Onestop's TTC network of digital displays on subway platforms were announced at its annual award ceremony, hosted at The Drake Hotel. The event drew the attention of a record breaking audience full of film-makers, enthusiasts, TUFF jury members, media, and even mayoralty candidate Joe Pantalone.

Toronto Urban Film Festival Finalists Announced

Onestop and Art for Commuters announce this year's TUFF film selections and screening times at Press Conference featuring Genie Award-Winning director and this year's Guest Judge, Deepa Mehta

Genie Award Winning and Academy Award Nominated Deepa Mehta announced as the 2010 Toronto Urban Film Festival (TUFF) Guest Judge

Toronto, Ontario [May 4, 2010] -- Deepa Mehta, whose dazzling film trilogy, Fire, Earth, Water, captivated audiences worldwide will be this year's Guest Judge for the Toronto Urban Film Festival (TUFF) airing on Onestop's network of digital displays in the Toronto Transit System in September. Mehta will choose the Top 3 films of the 2010 festival as well as the winners of the WIFT-T Award for Most Ambitious Film by a Female Director, and the Naish McHugh Award for Emerging Filmmakers, a $2,500 cash award from the City of Toronto.

ONESTOP and Art for Commuters Launch 2010 Toronto Urban Film Festival

ONESTOP and Art for Commuters Launches 2010 Toronto Urban Film Festival on TTC

Canada's award-winning film festival uses digital technologies to engage filmmakers and fans online and underground on Onestop's TTC Network

Press Coverage

TUFF takes art underground

http://spacingtoronto.ca/2010/09/10/tuff-takes-art-underground/

The 80 finalist videos in the Toronto Urban Film Festival (TUFF) are now running on OneStop screens across TTC platforms, and on the TUFF website.

A One Minute Film? That's TUFF!

http://www.livewithculture.ca/festivals/a-one-minute-film-thats-tuff/#mo...

There’s a lot more than a vowel separating TUFF from TIFF. The Toronto Urban Film Festival will see its share of line-ups but they’ll be on subway platforms where the short-listed one-minute films will be looping for the next week and a half. Eighty films in eight categories explore the urban experience from a variety of perspectives: The City is a Poem, The Emotional City and The Medium is the Message, are three of the quirkier themes.

Local micro-festivals are keeping it reel

View original article: http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/national/toronto/local-micro-festiva...

In Toronto, every year, at precisely this time, once verdant leaves quiver tenuously on their branches, long shadows overtake the sidewalks and hungry wasps infiltrate the city's cafés for that final bit of sweetness. Though this emblematic repetition could easily point to a change of the seasons in any other city, in Toronto it means something else: TIFF is coming.

Heirs to a Great Tradition

Heirs to a Great Tradition

It takes guts to make a silent film about our noisy world. We are urbanites; our lives are filled with sound, and it seems that the essence of our city, with its millions of people and machines, could only be captured by something very loud. A silent film—about Toronto, anyway—seems awfully abstract.

CP24 coverage of Bravo!News story on TUFF launch

CP24 Coverage of TUFF's 2010 Call for Submissions launch.