The Images Festival was established by the Northern Visions Collective to look closely at the dynamics of accessibility. Images began as Toronto’s only alternative to the Toronto International Film Festival, integrating film and video from its inception, and later expanding to include installations, performances and new media. From the beginning, Images has been at the forefront in identifying and supporting work that has been marginalized or unrecognized by existing exhibition venues, and was crucial in opening up dialogue in the media arts community around issues of race, culture, gender and sexuality.

Toronto’s original interdisciplinary arts festival, Images, is a critical forum for the independent media arts in Canada and around the world and provides artists with a supportive and professional forum in which to present their projects. Many influential media artists have been nurtured by Images’ willingness to embrace new creative concepts and modes of expression in the media arts field. The Images Festival exhibits and encourages the work of artists producing film and video outside of mainstream commercial production, distribution systems and aesthetic conventions. In addition to the international competition programs drawn from submissions to the festival, Images includes artists’ retrospectives, national and regional spotlights, publishing projects, touring programs and special guest-curated programs.

OFF SCREEN and LIVE Submissions
Deadline: September 29, 2018 No entry fee for this section
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GUEST PROGRAMMER Submissions
Deadline: September 26, 2017
No entry fee for this section

ON SCREEN Submissions
Deadline: November 7th, 2017
$15 CAN submission fee per entry
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ON SCREEN for STUDENTS Submissions
Deadline: November 7th, 2017
No entry fee up to two works no more than 20 minutes each
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The 32nd Images Festival will run from April 11 to 19th, 2019.

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