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Toronto, ON, October 7, 2025 – Toronto Film School, Yorkville University (Ontario campus), and their administrative staff are coming together under one roof at a brand-new, centralized location at 120 Bloor Street East in downtown Toronto. This bold move marks an exciting new chapter of growth, innovation, and service for the Toronto Film School and …

Toronto Film School recently announced Andrés Sevilla as the 2025 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 honour for teaching at Toronto Film …

Toronto Film School once again took centre stage during the Toronto International Film Festival®’s milestone 50th edition this September, celebrating the creativity and storytelling talent of its students and alumni. For the second year in a row, TFS proudly sponsored the TIFF Festival Street Art Market in partnership with TIFF, transforming John Street at King …

Acting for Film, TV & the Theatre student Alia Ettienne has been selected as this term’s recipient of the BMO BIPOC Creative Achievement Award – a quarterly $1,250 bursary that celebrates the creativity and promise of full-time students who identify as Black, Indigenous or a Person of Colour. Created to help foster greater diversity and …

Toronto Film School is seeking Indigenous-identifying students interested in joining its Indigenous Student Advisory Council. Co-chaired by Jessica Gruchy, Manager of Indigenous Partnerships and Engagement, and Deanna McQuarrie, Vice President of Student and Registrarial Services, the Indigenous Students Advisory Council (ISAC) is an up-to-10-member body that was created via a collaborative and consultative process to …

What began as an ambitious five-level concept evolved into a polished, playable – and hard-to-put-down – capstone video game project for this term’s graduating class of Video Game Design & Animation and Video Game Design & Development students. Kynetic Flux drops players into a crumbling futuristic alien city, challenging them to navigate streets once alive …

From the battlefield to the big screen, Class of 2022 Video Production grad Martin Spriggs is proving himself a rising force in Canadian documentary filmmaking. The Gulf War veteran and retired infantryman and paratrooper recently celebrated his first film festival win with his second feature-length documentary, White School Black Memories | A Canadian Soldier’s Story …

Toronto Film School acting students are set to step into the hooves, paws, trotters and claws of the creatures inhabiting Animal Farm when the school’s adaptation of George Orwell’s bitingly satiric novella hits the stage at Native Earth’s Aki Studio next week. Adapted by Canadian playwright Peter Anderson and revised and directed by TFS’s Andy …

Class of 2024 Film Production grad Nico Marneris has been nominated for a 2025 Student Cinematography Award by the Canadian Society of Cinematographers (CSC). The nomination comes in recognition of his work on The Man with the Iron Heart – a TFS FEST 2025 award-winning short film written and directed by his partner and fellow …

When Honey Bunch marks its North American premiere at the Toronto International Film Festival this year, audiences will marvel at its evocative 1970s world – one painstakingly brought to life in large part thanks to Toronto Film School alumnus Heather Hedley. A Class of 2020 Acting for Film, TV & the Theatre grad, Hedley served …

On September 8, Guillermo del Toro’s highly anticipated Frankenstein will make its world premiere at the Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF) – and among the creative talent on screen will be the daring stunt work of a Toronto Film School graduate who has built a thriving career one leap, fall, and fight at a time. …

Without video games, Brandon Marshall isn’t sure he would’ve survived his childhood. Games, he says, were his escape from the relentless bullying he suffered and a lifeline from the abuse he endured. When he played, all that destructive noise from the outside world simply disappeared and whole new realities – ones filled with hope and …

TORONTO, ON, September 2, 2025 – Toronto Film School (TFS) will mark the Toronto International Film Festival®’s (TIFF) milestone 50th edition this month with its biggest lineup of events, activations, and opportunities to showcase student and alumni talent yet. To start, this year’s TIFF lineup features an impressive slate of productions that spotlight the work …

Toronto Film School has been named one of MovieMaker Magazine’s 30 Best Film Schools in the U.S. and Canada for the seventh year in a row. In compiling this year’s list – which includes world-renowned institutions such as USC, NYU, and the AFI Conservatory, to name a few – MovieMaker Editor-in-Chief Tim Molloy said his …

Recent Graphic Design & Interactive Media graduate Saelym DeGrandpré has been selected as a 2025 Semi-Finalist for the Pow Wow Pitch competition. Now celebrating its 10th year, the annual competition aims to shine a spotlight on Indigenous vendors, artists, business builders, innovators and entrepreneurs from all across Turtle Island, no matter their backgrounds or industries, …

For Class of 2024 Film Production graduate Han Liu, having the opportunity to bring his short film Congratulations, It’s a Girl! back to the big screen at the prestigious TIFF Lightbox recently was both an honour and a full-circle moment. The eight-minute film, which Liu wrote and directed, kicked off its festival circuit at the …

. For Kristin Govers, The Awkward Ballerina isn’t just theatre – it’s part memoir, part solo act, and all heart. The Toronto Film School student recently brought the one-woman show to Fringe Windsor, parlaying her tales of early-life adversity into a standing ovation-worthy performance that’s inspiring her next big leap. “The Awkward Ballerina is a …

Toronto Film School recently made its third consecutive appearance on The Hollywood Reporter’s annual list of the Best International Film Schools. The esteemed weekly magazine, which is widely recognized as one of the most trusted sources of entertainment news and reviews, included TFS in its 2025 listing alongside such venerable institutions as the U.K.’s National …

Class of 2010 Film Production grad Zain Duraie will celebrate the world premiere her debut feature film Sink at the Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF) this fall. The 88-minute drama, which Duraie wrote and directed, has been selected as part of TIFF’s prestigious Discovery programme, which highlights first and second features from visionary filmmakers from …