The Toronto Queer Film Festival is an LGBT film festival held annually in Toronto, Ontario, Canada."A podcast festival, Meghan Markle's wedding choir, and nine other things to do in Toronto this week". Toronto Life, November 4, 2019. Launched in 2016 by a collective of artists and activists who perceived the programming of the city's established Inside Out Film and Video Festival to be too mainstream and commercialized, the event stages a program of independent feature and short films and videos over several days in the fall of each year, focusing primarily on works created from an alternative or activist perspective.Chris Dupuis, "How the Toronto Queer Film Festival is shaking up Pride Month". Daily Xtra, June 9, 2017.
The event is staged primarily on the campus of OCAD University, with some screenings also taking place at the Art Gallery of Ontario's Jackman Hall."Toronto Queer Film Festival". Now, November 7, 2019.
As a result of the COVID-19 pandemic in Toronto, the festival launched the Queer Emergencies Fund to offer grants to LGBT filmmakers for the creation of new short works.Peter Knegt, "Feeling inspired in your quarantine? This queer film fest is raising money to pay you to create work". CBC Arts, April 8, 2020.
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