Toronto International Nollywood Film Festival

THE TORONTO INTERNATIONAL NOLLYWOOD FILM FESTIVAL (TINFF) IS NOW A CANADIAN SCREEN AWARD (ACADEMY OF CANADIAN CINEMA & TELEVISION) QUALIFYING FESTIVAL.

As a transcending multicultural film festival that celebrates diversity and inclusion through film, using the TINFF platform to present a creative space for Canadian and international films. To provide a creative platform for Canadian and international films and creative content, TINFF is happy to announce that the Toronto International Nollywood Film Festival (TINFF) is now an approved Academy of Canadian Cinema & Television (Canadian Screen Award) qualifying festival. The 2024 updated qualifying festival list on the Academy website includes TINFF.

The Academy of Canadian Cinema & Television recently approved TINFF as a Canadian Screen Awards-qualifying festival, making it the first Canadian festival in North America with Nollywood ties and the highest Canadian film accreditation in Canada. TINFF is a Telefilm Canada-qualifying festival and a registered, non-profit corporation based in Toronto. Canadian Heritage, the Canada Media Fund, Ontario Creates, Telefilm Canada, and the City of Brampton are among our partners in promoting diversity and inclusivity.

“Acceptance into at least two (2) of the following Academy-approved Canadian festivals qualifies a feature documentary or theatrical short film for entry into the Canadian Screen Awards.”

This means that going forward, all past and future Toronto International Nollywood Film Festival (TINFF) official selections can list TINFF as a qualifying film festival for submissions to be considered for the Canadian Screen Award via the official website of the Academy of Canadian Cinema and Television.

In addition, TINFF is also an IMDb and Telefilm Canada Qualifying Film Festival and is supported by the City of Brampton, Ontario Creates, Canadian Heritage, and the Canada Media Fund, among others.

TINFF is an IMDb-qualifying film festival. https://www.imdb.com/event/ev0010686/2019/1

For a complete list, visit the academy's website here:

https://www.academy.ca/canadian-screen-awards/rules-eligibility/

The Toronto International Film Festival (TINFF) invites you to come to enjoy the diversity that brings local and international films, filmmakers, and artists to the beautiful city of Toronto every year.
 
The objective of TINFF is to be a prominent film festival in Toronto that celebrates the diversity that defines our beautiful city. The primary goal is to advance creative, independent filmmaking through diversity, innovation, and uniqueness by capturing a series of movements and experiences in a single film. We support, screen, and present music and films from around the world to help them find an audience and diversify the film industry as a whole.
 
The festival's programs and activities will initiate programs that address the capacity building of its organizational structure and personnel while also investing heavily in the development of its stakeholder group and providing support for strategic activities that address major challenges and opportunities.

This year's festival and activity projects will include conferences, screenings with Q&A, live music performances, stage plays, and dance, as well as several audience development activities involving workshop training and mentorship programs in various capacities geared toward increasing workforce capacity and putting diversity and inclusion at the centre of its annual program and objectives.
 
The CBDFM Summit:

As part of the annual festival program, the TINFF-Market, also known as the "Canada Black & Diversity Film Market," will focus on business development, providing support to organizations for business-to-business (B2B) industry activities and business-to-consumer (B2C) audience development activities that bring opportunities for new business leads, collaboration, sales, distribution, and relationships.

Our programs and activities will be offered in three phases to ensure effective planning and execution: 

• Festival programs will feature, among other things, screenings with Q&A, interviews, conferences, and seminars.
• Workshops and Training, Mentorship, and Masterclasses: Bridging the Gap in Skills Development Programs
• Acquisitions, networking, production collaboration, negotiations, sales, exhibition screenings, meetings (one-on-one or group meetings), and conferences are all part of the Film Market Summit.

Our initiatives, as a creative hub for filmmakers and industry stakeholders, are geared toward developing opportunities for all Canadians and international filmmakers and stakeholders, with a focus on the marginalized Black, Indigenous, and People of Color (BIPOC) groups.

The Toronto International Nollywood Film Festival (TINFF) is a year-round award competition and live screening festival held in Toronto each year. Every year, we hold a festival event and an award ceremony to celebrate diversity in film. We warmly welcome filmmakers from all around the world to Toronto.
 
Following the announcement and notification of the officially selected Films, we will go on to the next stage of the selection process and announce the TINFF Festival Finalists who will compete at the live festival event in Toronto. The names of all finalists will be published on the TINFF festival website and the TINFF Facebook page.

TINFF is a music and film festival with an awards ceremony that honours and fosters filmmakers by recognizing, promoting, challenging, and building knowledge of equality, social justice, non-discrimination, diversity, and multiculturalism.