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Trinity Square Video PITCH AWARD - Deadline: May 5th, 2008

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Toronto Urban Film Festival (TUFF)
Cinema by Citizens Celebrating the City
September 5 - 12, 2008

The 2nd annual TUFF - the only festival of its kind in North America - is an 8-day long public film festival on the TTC subway platform screens, featuring a different urban-themed program of 1-minute films each day.

Be part of the citizen's film festival and screen your work to an audience of over 1 million people!

TRINITY SQUARE VIDEO PITCH AWARD – Deadline May 5th, 2008
Submit a one or two paragraph pitch that describes your 1-minute film idea. The seven submissions that best capture the spirit of the TUFF themes will receive a TSV membership and up to $600 of in-kind support towards both the production and post-production of their TUFF movie. Send your short pitch with CV and contact information to: A4C@torontourbanfilmfestival.com.


Festival Details and Structure

TUFF is based on an international open call for participation from both trained professional, and untrained amateur, filmmakers. We encourage all formats and genres of film, video, and animation.

Filmmakers are asked to submit to one of 7 categories. The TUFF thematic categories are designed to be open enough to allow a wide range of interpretations:

  • Urban Encounters – the moments that make city-living worthwhile
  • Urban Fears – the darker side of living in a metropolis
  • Urban Growth – from skyscrapers to suburban sprawl
  • Urban Imaginary – hopes for the future of big cities
  • Urban Natural – the living city, both nurtured and oppressed
  • Urban Secrets – stories about the hidden or forgotten city
  • Urban Travels – from taking public transit to practicing Parkour

Each of our 7 guest jurors is given a thematic category and considers only the submissions to this category when creating their program of 10 films for the festival.

Our guest jurors for 2008 are Richard Fung, Judy Gladstone, Michelle Jacques, Deirdre Logue, Brenda Longfellow, Robert Ouellette, and Jason St-Laurent.

Each of the thematic programs is screenesd throughout 1 day of the festival. The 8th day of TUFF is programmed based on the top 10 audience favourites, as determined by online and txt voting. Each day of the festival, the 10 selected films play repeatedly on the entire network of TTC screens, cycling throughout the day.

Award Structure

Each of our 7 guest programmers chooses the best of the 10 films in their programme. These 7 films are each awarded Best in Category. As well, guest Judge MARK MCKINNEY chooses the top 3 films of the festival. Each of these is awarded a prize. Audience votes determine the winner of the TUFF Choice award. Prizes are dependent on corporate sponsorship, and will be announced shortly.

Submissions can be made online, at www.torontourbanfilmfestival.com, or through the mail.

You can also watch all the films from the 2007 Festival at www.torontourbanfilmfestival.com.

DEADLINE FOR ONLINE SUBMISSIONS - JULY 7th, 2008

NATIONAL SUBMISSIONS MADE BY MAIL MUST BE POSTMARKED BY JULY 7TH, 2008.

INTERNATIONAL SUBMISSIONS MADE BY MAIL MUST BE POSTMARKED BY JULY 1ST, 2008.

We acknowledge the support of the Canada Council for the Arts
which last year invested $11.8 million in media arts throughout Canada.