Toronto Shorts International Film Festival (8)

Festival start: 12 November 2020      Festival end: 15 November 2020

Toronto Shorts International Film Festival is the largest short film festival in Canada. Toronto Shorts provides a showcase for the best short-form cinema and its creators in the world, held annually in the heart of Toronto.

We feel that short-form cinema and its creators should have their own premier film festival in Toronto deserving similar recognition given to the feature film and its creators.

Toronto Shorts is where films from all genres intersect. The heart of the festival is the quality and scope of extraordinary film programming which consists of a wide spectrum of categories from high to low budget films under 45 minutes.

Over the past eight years, the festival has become a career stepping stone, establishing a tradition of discovering and promoting filmmakers who have gone on to be Academy Awards Nominees, including 2018 Oscar Nominees "Watu Wote - All of Us" (Germany) and "The Eleven O'Clock" (Australia).

The 2019 Oscar nominee ‘Weekends’ directed by Trevor Jimenez was awarded Best Animation at the 2018 Toronto Shorts International Film Festival.

Past participants also include films from Alan Ritchson, Olympia Dukakis. Billy Bob Thornton, John Stamos, Salma Hayek, Tyrese Gibson, and Tom DeLonge.

Toronto stands as the largest media market in Canada, it boasts the world-renowned Royal Ontario Museum, the massive Art Gallery of Ontario, the Soulpepper Theatre Company, the Toronto Symphony Orchestra, and now a premier international short film festival.

In order to showcase the best short films and its filmmakers from around the world, we created the Toronto Shorts International Film Festival.

Best of Fest
Best International
Best Drama
Best Comedy
Best Animation
Best Documentary
Best Experimental
Best Music Video
Best Web Series
Audience Award

If any award category does not meet the standard deemed award worthy by the judges, it’s possible there will be no award given in that category.

2020 SUBMISSION REQUIREMENTS

Films must NOT have previously screened in Toronto.

Films must have been completed after Jan. 1, 2019

All non-English films must have English sub-titles.

Films must be submitted via online screener.

Works-in-progress will be considered, provided they will be completed prior to the festival.

Please do NOT send stills or press kits. If your film is selected we will ask you to email us a still image.

You may submit more than one film, but you must complete a separate entry form and pay the entry fee for each film.

Film selection for the festival will be made by the screening committee.

All filmmakers will be notified via email of acceptance.