LIFT Digital Cinema Residency 2026 (up to $8,000) – YOA

Deadline: December 3, 2025

Applications are open for the LIFT Digital Cinema Residency 2026. The Liaison of Independent Filmmakers of Toronto (LIFT) is in search of functions from rising filmmakers and artists between the age of 18 and 30 for a Digital Cinema Residency. The residency will run full-time over the course of three months between January 12 to March 31, 2026. The profitable filmmaker / artist will be a part of them in residency on the LIFT facility to work on the creation of a brand new digital cinema work.

LIFT is an artist-run manufacturing and academic media arts group devoted to celebrating excellence within the shifting picture. The Digital Cinema Residency focuses on the manufacturing and publish-manufacturing of a digital cinema work, with the help of on-website mentors, who will train the profitable applicant the required abilities to create their initiatives.

Benefits

• The residency contains funding of $8,000 CAD payable as an hourly wage for 40 hours for 11 weeks to be put in the direction of residing and undertaking prices (Mandatory employer deductions for Canada Pension Plan (CPP), Employment Insurance (EI) and Vacation Pay will probably be utilized to this funding).
• Equipment and amenities will probably be offered by LIFT to a most of $3,000 CAD in-type.
• The filmmaker / artist will probably be supplied with an on-website studio house on the LIFT facility in Toronto.

Eligibility

• Be between 18 and 30 years of age.
• Be a Canadian Citizen, Permanent Resident, or Refugee (an individual who was pressured to go away their home nation and is now situated in Canada).
• Work permits aren’t eligible.
• Live within the Greater Toronto and Hamilton Area (GTHA), or inside commuting distance from town, so as to take part on this residency.
• Self-identify as underemployed (i.e. employed beneath their degree of training, holding part-time employment, or in rising fields with few jobs).
• Have accomplished publish-secondary research.
• Have no speedy household relationship or earlier working relationship with the employer.

Application

Proposals should embrace:

• Proposal and/or Artist Statement together with how they intend to use LIFT’s tools to create a brand new Digital Cinema paintings. (500 – 1,000 phrases)
• Curriculum vitae. (2 pages most)
• Proposed price range together with funding sources for supplies. (2 web page most)
• Visual assist materials of previous work. Do not ship originals, documentation won’t be returned. (Up to three (3) examples most)
• Identify any accessibility lodging you want so we will assist you thru the application course of and into the undertaking section.
• Two (2) work associated references. (Provide emails of present or previous employers and / or arts associated collaborations)

For extra data, go to LIFT Digital Cinema Residency.