The Canadian Film Festival , formerly known as the Canadian Filmmakers Festival , is an annual film festival in Toronto , Ontario . Showcasing a program of Canadian independent films, it is held in March of each year and usually runs for five days.
3-653: The festival was launched in 2004, and ran annually until 2008 at the Royal Cinema . Although not staged between 2009 and 2011, it was relaunched in 2012 and has run annually since. The festival has been staged at the Scotiabank Theatre since 2017. The festival was formed in association with the Toronto International Film Festival Group, but operates independently of TIFF. It serves commonly, but not exclusively, as
6-658: The Toronto premiere venue for films which premiered elsewhere on the Canadian or international film festival circuits in the previous year but have not yet screened in Toronto, although it also serves as the premiere venue for some films. The 2020 festival was cancelled due to the COVID-19 pandemic in Canada ; instead, the organizers partnered with the pay TV service Super Channel to provide television and streaming broadcasts of
9-407: The films that had been slated to screen at the festival. With the pandemic continuing into 2021, festival organizers again partnered with Super Channel to present the 2021 edition of the festival under the same model. Several films had been planned for the festival lineup, but were not able to be screened due to the shift from physical to broadcast screening. However, the films were still screened for
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