TIFF Next Wave is an annual film festival in Toronto , Ontario . An offshoot of the Toronto International Film Festival , the Next Wave festival is held in spring each year, screening films of interest to teenagers and young adults selected by a committee of students from the city's high schools.
30-571: The festival was launched in 2012. It programs both a lineup of Canadian and international feature films, and a Young Creators Showcase program of short films by Canadian film students. Some, but not all, films are also made available on the TIFF Bell Lightbox for viewing across Canada. The festival has also included special programs such as Battle of the Scores, a battle of the bands competition in which emerging musicians compete to compose and perform
60-513: A "Cinema Tower" on the block's north side, which will contain five additional theatres. The area also includes other prominent venues for the festival, such as Roy Thomson Hall and the Scotiabank Theatre . The complex opened officially on September 12, 2010, with a block party. Bruce McDonald 's Trigger was the first film screened at the theatre. The galleries host exhibitions related to film and art history. The fourth-floor gallery
90-456: A centre for students and scholars, a bistro, a restaurant, a lounge, a gift shop, and a rooftop terrace. The five-screen cinema complex also includes a film reference library , galleries and workshops. The theatres present specially curated programming, as well as some new releases. Some of the films presented tie-in with exhibitions and retrospectives of actors or filmmakers. The extensive reference library and archives of film, which are open to
120-547: A five-storey complex that forms the base of the Lightbox and Festival Tower. The entrance for the structure's 46-storey tower of condominiums is on John Street, set back from the much smaller 19th-century buildings along King Street. As the new headquarters for the Toronto International Film Festival, it contains five cinemas of various sizes, a three-storey public atrium, two galleries, three learning studios,
150-465: A multi-generational program bringing together LGBT youth and seniors over the age of 55. To date, close to 100 new artists have created work through the project. The works are screened at the festival and many go on to play at festivals around the globe. Each year, the works are compiled and distributed free to schools and community organizations. In 2001, Inside Out launched the inaugural John Bailey Film and Video Completion Fund. Named in recognition of
180-583: A number of local activists launched the Toronto Queer Film Festival , an alternative intended for filmmakers and audiences who perceive Inside Out's current programming as too commercialized and mainstream. In March 2020, the festival organizers announced that due to the COVID-19 pandemic in Canada , the 2020 festival, normally scheduled for May, would be postponed to October. In July, they announced that
210-557: A program of LGBT -related film. The festival is staged in both Toronto and Ottawa . Founded in 1991, the festival is now the largest of its kind in Canada. Deadline dubbed it "Canada’s foremost LGBTQ film festival." The organization also presents a series of film screenings throughout the year outside of the dedicated festival, as well as a touring program of short film screenings in smaller towns and cities within Southern Ontario . The organization's current executive director
240-462: A streaming platform which served both as the primary venue for the online 2020 Toronto International Film Festival and as a rental store for Lightbox-style film programming both before and after the festival. In November 2022, TIFF announced that Cinema 1, the largest screening room at the Lightbox, would be renamed the Viola Desmond Theatre in 2023. TIFF Lightbox is held in the podium,
270-572: A venue for other film screenings and smaller specialty film festivals throughout the year. The venue was previously known as the TIFF Bell Lightbox until its corporate sponsorship by Bell Media was discontinued in 2023. TIFF Lightbox opened in 2010 on land donated by Ivan Reitman and family. The venue replaced the Art Gallery of Ontario 's Jackman Hall as the primary screening venue of Cinematheque Ontario . During construction, crews found artifacts belonging to York General Hospital , located on
300-404: Is Lauren Howes, who succeeded Andria Wilson in 2021. First held at Toronto's Euclid Theatre in 1991, Inside Out celebrated its festival with a small community of people who yearned to see film and video created by and about lesbians, gays, bisexuals, and transgender people . The festival was briefly the subject of controversy in 1993, when Metro Toronto council refused an arts grant to support
330-533: Is a cultural centre in Toronto , Ontario , Canada, located on the first five floors of the Lightbox and Festival Tower on the northwest corner of King Street and John Street . TIFF Lightbox features five cinemas, two restaurants, major exhibitions and galleries, a gift shop, a rooftop terrace, and learning studios. It is the headquarters for the Toronto International Film Festival and serves as
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#1732884876299360-582: Is free to the public, while the larger main gallery on the first level hosts large paid exhibitions. The first exhibition was the MoMA's monograph on Tim Burton , subsequent exhibits have included retrospectives of Federico Fellini , Grace Kelly , James Bond , David Cronenberg , Stanley Kubrick , and most recently, Andy Warhol . Festival Tower was developed by The Daniels Corporation and designed by Toronto-based architectural firm Kuwabara Payne McKenna Blumberg Architects (KPMB) and Kirkor Architects. TIFF Lightbox
390-481: Is now staged at the TIFF Bell Lightbox . Since 2009, RBC Royal Bank has served as the presenting sponsor of the Toronto Festival. The festival bills itself as "a not-for-profit registered charity that exists to challenge attitudes and change lives through the promotion, production and exhibition of film made by and about lesbian, gay, bisexual and trans (LGBT) people of all ages, races and abilities." In 2016,
420-577: Is the home of the Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF), while Festival Tower contains condominium residences. The project was conceived in partnership by the Toronto International Film Festival Group and the King and John Festival Corporation. TIFF is a not-for-profit organization with an annual economic impact of $ 189 million CAD. TIFF Lightbox is supported by contributors including major sponsors Royal Bank of Canada and Visa ,
450-486: The 1994 festival on the grounds of "community standards", even though the council had given grants to the festival in both 1991 and 1992 without issue. The festival was able to make up the lost funding that year when numerous arts organizations in the city, including the Art Gallery of Ontario , the Toronto International Film Festival , the National Ballet School , Tarragon Theatre , Theatre Passe Muraille , and
480-710: The COVID-19 pandemic. The festival was also one of the key partners, alongside Outfest Los Angeles , the Frameline Film Festival , and the New York Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, & Transgender Film Festival , in launching the North American Queer Festival Alliance, an initiative to further publicize and promote LGBT film. The Inside Out Arts Endowment Fund was established in December 2001 through
510-523: The Danny Grossman Dance Company made donations to the festival. The festival has since expanded to incorporate a variety of programs related to the promotion and development of LGBT films and filmmakers in Canada. Currently the largest event of its kind in Canada, Deadline dubbed it "Canada’s foremost LGBTQ film festival." Previously staged at a variety of venues in Toronto, the festival
540-699: The Province of Ontario, the Government of Canada, the City of Toronto, the Reitman family ( Ivan Reitman , Agi Mandel and Susan Michaels) and The Daniels Corporation. Inside Out Film and Video Festival The Inside Out Film and Video Festival (formerly, Inside Out Lesbian and Gay Film and Video Festival ), also known as the Inside Out LGBT or LGBTQ Film Festival , is an annual Canadian film festival , which presents
570-444: The Toronto and Ottawa events would be combined into a single digital event. Due to the unique online nature of the event, the winners of the juried awards were announced at the beginning of the festival, as a tool to help publicize the winners during the festival, although audience-voted awards were still announced after the festival's conclusion. The 2021 festival returned to the event's traditional scheduling in late May, although it
600-563: The best live score for a short film, the Next Wave Film Challenge, a competition which gives emerging filmmakers three days to make and complete a short film, and the Young Creators Co-Lab, which gives young content creators a chance to meet and network with film industry professionals. Prior to 2012, film programming for both children and young adults was screened as part of a single Sprockets film festival. Admission to
630-530: The contribution of a longtime Inside Out supporter and advisory board member, the fund awards grants ranging from $ 500 to $ 2,000 to Canadian filmmakers with work in the final stages of production. Inaugurated in 2002, the Mark S. Bonham Scholarship for Queer Studies in Film and Video awards a $ 5,000 cash scholarship to a Canadian student who identifies as lesbian, gay, bisexual or transgender, to pursue post-secondary studies in
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#1732884876299660-671: The festival is able to return to traditional physical screenings. In 2007, the Inside Out festival expanded to Ottawa, soon after the demise of the city's earlier Making Scenes Film and Video Festival . Originally presented at the ByTowne Cinema , since 2016 the event has been staged at the National Gallery of Canada . In 2009, the festival faced controversy when the Canada Border Services Agency impounded prints of
690-493: The festival partnered with streaming service Crave as a branding partner on the service's new portal for LGBTQ film and television content, as well as launching a partnership with Netflix to support the development and funding of new LGBTQ-oriented film and television content in Canada. In 2020, through the Focus Fund, the festival launched a special emergency relief fund, offering grants of up to $ 2,500 to projects impacted by
720-489: The festival screenings is free for people under age 25, and $ 14 for people older than 25. In addition to the standalone TIFF Next Wave festival, films of youth interest in the primary TIFF program also bear a "TIFF Next Wave" designation, and the organizing committee served as the jury for the Shawn Mendes Foundation Changemaker Award from 2020 to 2023. TIFF Bell Lightbox TIFF Lightbox
750-612: The field of film or video. The first scholarship was awarded in September 2002 to Adam Garnet Jones from Vancouver. Subsequent recipients were Mary Fogarty, Christopher Sanchez, Jung Kim, Cam Matamoros, Jo Simalaya Alcampo, Rachel Smyth, and Jordan Tannahill . In 2018, the festival launched the Focus Fund to support work by LGBTQ female and non-binary filmmakers. It also organizes an annual Finance Forum, providing an opportunity for emerging filmmakers to pitch LGBT-related projects in development to potential production funders. In 2019,
780-427: The films Patrik, Age 1.5 , I Can't Think Straight , and Clapham Junction that were en route to the festival, even though all three films had previously been screened elsewhere in Canada without incident. In addition to the annual film festival events, the Inside Out organization also offers a number of dedicated training and funding programs to foster the creation of LGBT-themed film in Canada. In 1998, with
810-503: The public, include publications and archival movies, as well as research and study space. The podium has been used by the Toronto International Film Festival since 2010. Other events staged at the Lightbox include the Inside Out Film and Video Festival and the imagineNATIVE Film + Media Arts Festival . Since 2010, TIFF Lightbox has been the festival's home, marking its permanent move from Yorkville to King West . Future plans include
840-477: The site in 1829. TIFF Lightbox opened as a cinema complex, and included the Toronto International Film Festival offices, a ground-floor restaurant and a rooftop terrace are housed in a five-storey structure on King. TIFF Lightbox is built as a part of a five-storey structure that forms a part of the base of Festival Tower. During the COVID-19 pandemic in Toronto , TIFF launched the Digital TIFF Lightbox ,
870-509: The support of Charles Street Video, Inside Out initiated the Queer Video Mentorship Project to provide opportunities for youth to learn video production in a supportive atmosphere. Queer youth under the age of 25 are mentored through the process of making their first videos, from storyboarding and shooting to post-production and editing . In celebration of the festival's 20th anniversary in 2010, Inside Out expanded this into
900-582: Was still staged online. The event was available to viewers throughout Ontario; the films in the Spotlight on Canada program were screened for free through a sponsorship agreement with the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation . The online platform that was used for both the 2020 and 2021 festivals is also planned to remain in permanent operation, both as a year-round distribution platform for LGBTQ films and as an additional accessibility option once
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