This is Toronto's Comedy Festival.
Be part of an incredible comedy community that has been gathering every March in Toronto for 19 years! Connect with other comedy creators and showcase your work to TOsketchfest's audience of comedy lovers from across North America.
TOsketchfest24 returns March 6-17, 2024 with a full slate of live performances on multiple Toronto stages. On March 6, 2024 the festival kicks off with the Premiere Screening of The Toronto Sketch Comedy Film Festival. Get your team together, meet other comedy creators, and revel in the thrill of watching your work with a live and enthusiastic audience. Be there to walk the TOsketchfest Blue Shag Carpet at what has become a crowd-favourite tradition, and marquee kick-off event for Toronto’s longest-running comedy festival.
The Toronto Sketch Comedy Film Festival celebrates the best in short-form comedy on screen: solo character bits, commercial parodies, ensemble sketches, musical comedy, and micro-comedy (reels and TikToks). If it’s short, and hilarious, we want to showcase the world’s best!
The Toronto Sketch Comedy Festival is committed to creating a safe, welcoming and anti-racist space where all people are treated with respect and dignity. We strive for an atmosphere of respectful creative exchange, and positive personal and professional growth. We will not accept submissions that contain racist, homophobic, transphobic, ableist, or hateful language, imagery, or actions.
WHAT CAN I SUBMIT?
On FilmFreeway you can submit your filmed comedy shorts for the film festival presentation. Jurors will watch up to 7 minutes of every submission.
We are on the lookout for new digital sketch comedy shorts for a curated programme to be screened in front of a live audience, and then available on demand. We are looking for a wide variety of comedy shorts, musical comedy videos, animated shorts, web series spotlights, etc. - as long as the content was created after November 30th, 2022.
We are happy to accept digital submissions from anywhere in the world!
LIVE Artist Submissions can be submitted through "Zone Festival" until November 30 at:
https://form.zonefestival.com/?k=tscf_p1
TYPE OF CONTENT:
MICRO-SHORTS (dur :10 – 1:30)
Send us your mini-reels, TikToks and bite size sketches
COMEDY SHORTS (dur – up to 7:00)
Send us your hilarious short-form sketches, characters, music and parodies
DATES, DEADLINES & FEES:
Micro-short (Deadline – Nov 30 @ 11:59PM ET) – $20
Micro-short (Extended – Dec 1 - 20 @ 11:59PM ET) – $25
Comedy Short (Deadline – Nov 30 @ 11:59PM ET) – $25
Comedy Short (Extended – Dec 1 - 20 @ 11:59PM ET) – $30
Do you have a show/sketch that's outside the box? Not sure if your work is a good fit? Reach out to us to discuss before completing your application with any questions or ideas. Email us at info@torontosketchfest.com
WHAT'S IN IT FOR ME?
TOsketchfest offers creators access to a free/low-cost professional development/learning series, including hands-on workshops, panels and networking events with in-person and online options for comedy enthusiasts.
TOsketchfest Film Festival Awards includes the following:
Outstanding Comedy Short
Outstanding Micro-Short
Outstanding Musical Comedy
Outstanding Short Animation
Outstanding Performance/Character
More info:
https://www.torontosketchfest.com/the-festival/awards/