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Toronto Film School‘s Film Production program has landed in the top 10 on CourseCompare‘s list of the Best Film Schools in Canada for 2026. CourseCompare – Canada’s leading marketplace for comparing schools, courses and tuition – develops its rankings based on academic quality, graduate outcomes, industry feedback and student ratings. Its annual film school ranking …

Toronto Film School‘s Acting for Film, TV & the Theatre program has been named one of the Best Acting Schools in Canada for 2026 by CourseCompare, landing in the top 10 on the national list. CourseCompare developed its acting school rankings based on employer reputation, graduate outcomes, industry feedback and student ratings. The ranking looks …

Shadow Boxer and Spirits stole the spotlight at TFS FEST 2026, with each short film taking home three awards from Toronto Film School‘s annual celebration of student and alumni talent across film, performance, writing, design, and gaming. Shadow Boxer, Shahar Shamay‘s psychological drama about a boxer confronting the darkest version of himself, swept the craft …

Graphic Design and Interactive Media student Chelsea Kumar has been named the latest recipient of the BMO BIPOC Creative Achievement Award. Now in its third year, the quarterly bursary celebrates the creativity and promise of full-time TFS students who identify as Black, Indigenous, or People of Colour, and was created to help foster greater diversity …

Toronto Film School recently announced Writing for Film & TV instructor Alan Resnick as the 2026 Recipient of its President’s Award for Teaching Excellence – an annual award celebrating faculty who inspire and facilitate learning in ways that have a positive and sustained influence on our students. Launched in 2024, the award is the highest …

The stage is brand new. The play is 400 years old. Cue the romp! Toronto Film School’s Acting for Film, TV and the Theatre students will take to the stage June 17-20 for their upcoming production of A Midsummer Night’s…Romp! – a fresh, 90-minute take on Shakespeare’s beloved comedy, adapted and directed by Jonathan Whittaker. …

TORONTO, ONTARIO, June 3, 2026 — Toronto’s globally recognized film school is doubling down on the city’s strength in film, television, theatre, design and video game production. A talent pipeline for one of North America’s largest and most dynamic entertainment industries, Toronto Film School has officially opened a new state-of-the-art campus complete with Hollywood-calibre facilities …

If you ask Dr. Tommy Mayberry, RuPaul’s Drag Race belongs in the classroom. And with drag and teaching both under attack in our current moment, the timing of their second book on the subject couldn’t feel more relevant.  Due out in fall 2026, RuPedagogies of Realness 2: New Essays on Teaching, Learning and Resisting with …

Toronto Film School’s Samiramis Kia recently took home the Best Director Award from Women in Film & Television Toronto‘s 17th Annual Showcase – an event celebrating the creative excellence of women and gender-diverse filmmakers within WIFT+ Toronto’s membership. The Film Production instructor was recognized for Last Resort, an emotionally charged, 15-minute short that follows a …

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Film Production alums Fernanda Molina and Daria Lavrova took top honours home from North America’s biggest documentary festival From classroom project to festival winner, My Body Goes to Work has quickly become one of the documentary world’s most talked-about short films. The 12-minute doc – directed by Class of 2022 Film Production alumni Fernanda Molina …

Hollywood A-lister Josh Duhamel had a message for the press assembled at the TCL Chinese Theatre in Los Angeles for the red-carpet premiere of his latest film, Neglected, last week: Remember the name Adam G. Levine. “This is gonna be the biggest writer,” the Transformers star said of Levine – a Class of 2025 Toronto …

When the Writers Guild of Canada announced Kaveh Mohebbi’s name as the winner of the Best Short Series Screenwriting Award, he knew it wasn’t just his win to celebrate. The Writing for Film & TV instructor at Toronto Film School Online had the whole cast and crew of 18 to 35 beside him at Koerner …

For Ethan Dyer, the transition from student to professional actor was less a leap of faith than a running start. Just a few days after his final class at Toronto Film School, he signed with one of Canada’s top talent agencies – an important milestone every acting student is working toward, and one he was …

When Emilija Davidovic signed on as line producer for a series of social Kleenex commercials timed to the Olympic Games this winter, she didn’t need a casting directory. Afterall, the shoot was in Toronto, the brief called for young, emerging talent, and she just so happens to run the Film Production program at Toronto Film …

Four days before Indiana Jones and the Great Circle: The Order of Giants was released to the world, Matty McDonald walked up to legendary voice actor Troy Baker at the Fan Expo in Toronto and introduced himself as his idol’s newest castmate. Baker – whose lauded credits include the voice of Joel in The Last …

The TFS and Yorkville University grad is producing and writing for some of the biggest true crime franchises on Paramount Plus and CBS – with a landmark historical limited series for Fox Nation on the way. Reeth Mazumder-Roberts originally came to TFS’s Writing for Film & TV program in 2017 from a Bollywood acting background …

Landing a role on National Geographic’s Mayday: Air Crash Investigation has been a significant milestone in my acting journey since graduating from the Acting for Film, TV & the Theatre program at Toronto Film School in 2024. One factor that played a key role in helping me land and perform this role was my consistent …

Acting students at Toronto Film School got a rare front-row seat recently when Shamier Anderson – one of Canada’s most accomplished working actors – sat down for a candid conversation about what it really takes to build a career in film and television. The February 26 guest lecture, hosted by Acting for Film, TV & …

Film Production student Justin Abraham Varghese has been named the latest recipient of the BMO BIPOC Creative Achievement Award – and the first to benefit from BMO’s recently increased investment in the bursary. For the 2026 cycle, BMO has raised the value of each of the competition’s four quarterly individual awards from $1,250 to $2,000, …