We are pleased to announce our list of Winners for the 8th Annual Toronto Beaches Film Festival. Thank you to all of our Official Selections for choosing TBFF as part of your festival strategy. Congratulations to a beautiful lineup from all of our Official Selections and our Winners.

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*Best Short Film*
2019
Toronto Beaches Film Festival
“High Tide”
dir. Deejay Williams

 

*Best SurfGirl Film*
2019
Toronto Beaches Film Festival
“Your Wings Are Going To Grow”
dir. Maria Karin Walczuk

 

*Best Extreme Adventure (Surf) Film*
2019
Toronto Beaches Film Festival
“Where The Desert Meets The Ocean”
dir. Véna Píša

 

*Best Cinematography*
2019
Toronto Beaches Film Festival
“Where The Desert Meets The Ocean”
dir. Véna Píša

 

*Best Animated Beach Film*
2019
Toronto Beaches Film Festival
“The Metamorphosis of a Bottle Cap”
dir. Kathryn Jankowski

 

*Best Activist Film*
2019
Toronto Beaches Film Festival
“To The Sea”
dir. Bruno Monteferri, dir. Dana Bonilla

 

*Best Activist Film*
Honorable Mention
2019
Toronto Beaches Film Festival
“Signature”
dir. Per Anderson

 

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The TBFF Spirit Award goes to the filmmaker, film, documentary or documentary subject(s) or film team who most demonstrate the “Indie Spirit”, through story telling, film production, promotion of film, audience engagement and producing a memorable onscreen experience that can be felt as well as seen. Congratulations to Victory Swim for such a touching story about unconditional Love, Support and the Human Spirit!

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*TBFF *Spirit Award*
2019
Toronto Beaches Film Festival
“Victory Swim”
dir. Matt Yamashita

*TBFF *Spirit Award*
2019
Toronto Beaches Film Festival
“Victory Swim ”
Susan Scarlett (as Herself)

 

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*TBFF Door Prize Winner*
2019
Surf Prize Pack (Value $120)
Marcel ‘Junior’ Courchesne

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Special Thanks

A Special Thank you to Grant and the kind Folks at  Surf Ontario
(99 Sunrise Avenue) for making “Surf’s Up Around The World” Film Premieres a super fun event with your delicious supply of succulent Oysters for our Post screening Tasting!

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Warm Thanks

David Lewis (Operations Manager), Mary and New Beach United Church
for their wonderful facility, performance hall sound and screen.

Thank You
Audience members past and present – C U in 2020!

We are pleased to announce our Official Selections for the 8th Annual Toronto Beaches Film Festival (TBFF). Most of these Films and Documentaries will have their ‘Canadian Premiere’. Victory Swim will be their World Premiere.  Our TBFF Premieres from around the Block and Around The World are:

1. 1. Silverman Luis, Dir. Walter Kuechel – Mexico/USA
   2. The Metamorphosis of a Bottle Cap
      Dir. Kathryn Jankowski – Netherlands, Tanzania, United Republic of, Uganda
   3. Indomitable, Linda Sanders – USA
   4. Mulanje, Garth Kingwell – Malawi, South Africa, United Kingdom
   5. Victory Swim, Matt Yamashita – USA *World Premiere*
   6. Belles Of The Swelles, Mary Piller – USA
   7. Signature, Per Anderson – USA
   8. North Sea Holes, Lewis Arnold, Chris McClean – United Kingdom
   9. High Tide, Deejay Williams – New Zealand
   10. Your Wings Are Going To Grow, Maria Karin Walczuk – Sweden
   11. From Lost To The Desert, Chechu Pajares – Spain, Western Sahara
   12. To The Sea, Bruno Monteferri, Dana Bonilla – Peru
   13. Where The Desert Meets The Ocean, Véna Píša – Czech Republic, Namibia

All Films will be screened in the beautiful
Beach United Performance Hall
Complete Festival Program and Advance Ticket Sales Are Online Now!
$9/Two-For-$15
TorontoBeachesFilmFest.com

We are pleased to announce our list of Winners for the 7th Annual Toronto Beaches Film Festival. Thank you to all of our Official Selections for choosing TBFF as part of your festival strategy. Congratulations to a beautiful lineup from all of our Official Selections and our Winners.

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*Best Kid-Friendly Film*
2018
Toronto Beaches Film Festival 
“Behind The Blue Door / Za Niebieskimi Drzwiami”
dir. Mariusz Palej

 

*Best Nature Documentary*
2018
Toronto Beaches Film Festival
“Once Upon a Time – The Savannah”
dir. Rober Henno

 

*Best Animal Friendly Film*
2018
Toronto Beaches Film Festival
“Willow: 7 Weeks In Aquarius”
dir. Erin Parks

 

*Best Surf Film*
2018
Toronto Beaches Film Festival
“The Way”
dir. Luke Cameron

  

*Best Cinematography Extreme Adventure Film*
2018
Toronto Beaches Film Festival
“Euphoria: Indescribable Adventure”
Alessandro Beltrame

 

*Best Animated Beach Film*
2018
Toronto Beaches Film Festival
“Zigzag”
dir. Zeynep Merve Uygun

 

*Best Sustainability Film*
2018
Toronto Beaches Film Festival
“The Oyster Farmers”
dir. Corinne Ruff

 

*Best of The Fest*
2018
Toronto Beaches Film Festival
“Prone and Alone”
dir. Robert Eden

 

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The TBFF Spirit Award goes to the filmmaker, film, documentary or documentary subject(s) or film team who most demonstrate the “Indie Spirit”, through story telling, film production, promotion of film, audience engagement and producing a memorable onscreen experience that can be felt as well as seen. Congratulations to the Prone And Alone Team for such a great ride on Film!

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*TBFF *Spirit Award*
2018
Toronto Beaches Film Festival
“Prone and Alone”
dir. Robert Eden

*TBFF *Spirit Award*
2018
Toronto Beaches Film Festival
“Prone and Alone”
Rob Cunliffe

 

*TBFF *Spirit Award*
2018
Toronto Beaches Film Festival
“Prone and Alone”
Arron Ford

 

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*TBFF Poster Contest Winner*
2018
Toronto Beaches Film Festival
Isha Miftahul
Notre Dame High School

 

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*TBFF Raffle Prize Winner*
2018
LUSH Prize Pack (Value $75+)
Dawn Bromfield
Ticket # Ending in 6182/6183

 

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Special Thanks

A Special Thank you to Luke and the Team at Hooked  (888 Queen Street East) for making “The Oyster Farmers” premiere a super fun event with your delicious supply of succulent Oysters for our Post screening Tasting!

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Thanks to David Lewis (Operations Manager) and the Folks at the New Beach United Church for their wonderful facility, performance hall sound and screen. 

And Thank you to the new Beaches Residents that found us and came out to the screenings.

C U in 2019!

WINNERS

Congratulations! We are pleased to announce our Winners for the
6th Annual Toronto Beaches Film Festival (TBFF) September 7 – 9, 2017

• *Best Adventure/ Extreme Adventure Film*
  • It’s Not About The Cycle
  • dir. Achyutanand Dwivedi, Mumbai, Maharashatra, India
• *Best Eco-Friendly Film*
  • An Ocean Mystery: The Missing Catch
  • dir. Alison Barat, Annapolis, MD, United States
• *Best Kid-Friendly Film*
  • Alaotra – Endangered Treasures of Madagascar
  • dir. Julia Dordel, dir. Guido Tölke, Niedersachsen, Germany
• *Best Short Film*
  • Crab Trap 
  • dir. Shea Sizemore Director, North Carolina, United States
• *Best Short Documentary*
  • Résonances 
  • dir. Jean-Julien Pous, Seoul, South Korea, Republic of Korea, France
• *Best Feature Documentary*
  • Last Fisherman
  • dir. James Stier, – Sheffield, United Kingdom, Tirol, Austria
• *Best Off The Grid Film*
  • To Live Deliberately
  • dir. Piers Garland, London, United Kingdom
• *Best Vintage Beach*
  • Cities Under the Sand
  • dir. Sandra Dillon, Upper Black Eddy, PA United States
• *TBFF *Spirit Award*
  • Accidental Parkland
  • dir. Dan Berman, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
  • The TBFF Spirit Award goes to the filmmaker who most demonstrates the “Indie Spirit”, through film production, audience engagement, producing a memorable contribution on film and passion for their subject or subject matter.

6th Annual Toronto Beaches Film Festival (TBFF) September 7 – 9, 2017
All Films will be screened in the beautiful Beach United Church Performance Hall
Complete Festival Program and Advance Ticket Sales will be Online July 28 TorontoBeachesFilmFest.com

We are pleased to announce our Official Selections for the 6th Annual Toronto Beaches Film Festival (TBFF)! Most of these Films and Documentaries will have their ‘Canadian Premiere’ right here at TBFF.

In alphabetical order, our TBFF Premieres from around the Block and Around The World are:

• 300 Tires and an Old Sofa (10:36m) Documentary
  • dir. Phil Audibert, Gordonsville, VA, United States
• Accidental Parkland – (56:36m) Documentary
  • dir. Dan Berman, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
• Alaotra – Endangered Treasures of Madagascar (72:07m) Documentary
  • dir. Julia Dordel, dir. Guido Tölke, Niedersachsen, Germany
• An Ocean Mystery: The Missing Catch (47:47m) Documentary
  • dir. Alison Barat, Annapolis, MD, United States
• Blue Ventures – (6:07m) Documentary
  • dir. Gabriel Diamond, Palo Alto, California, United States
• Cities Under the Sand – (3:33m) Film
  • dir. Sandra Dillon, Upper Black Eddy, PA United States
• Crab Trap – (24:47m) Film
  • dir. Shea Sizemore Director, North Carolina, United States
• Elias’ Stand – (10:46m) Documentary
  • dir. Jyllian Gunther, Brooklyn, NY, United States
• Fishermen Without a Sea – (20:06m) Documentary
  • dir. Lucas Bonetti, Honolulu, Hawaii, United States
• Explorer – (7:58m) Documentary
  • Dir. Francis Luta – Toronto, Canada
• Ghosts Nets (23:07M) Film
  • dir. Mark Bousfield, Canterbury, United Kingdom
• It’s Not About The Cycle – (61:08m) Documentary
  • dir. Achyutanand Dwivedi, Mumbai, Maharashatra, India
• ‘Milk For Britain’ – (13:27m) Animated Film
  • dir. Danijel Margetic, dir. Shay Carriere, Croatia / Toronto
• The Other (“L’autre”) – (6:41m) Music Video
  • dir. Joe Hoster, Lausanne, Switzerland
• Last Fisherman (72:59m)
  • dir. James Stier, – Sheffield, United Kingdom, Tirol, Austria
• To Live Deliberately – (17:40m) Documentary
  • dir. Piers Garland, London, United Kingdom
• Résonances – (45:49m) Documentary
  • dir. Jean-Julien Pous, Seoul, South Korea, Republic of Korea, France
• SACA – The Story of Tiago Pires – (106:42m) Documentary
  • dir. Julio Adler, Lisbon, Portugal
• The Race Of Gentlemen – (61:04m) Documentary
  • dir. Wayne Gibson, Richmond, VA, United States
• The Reindeer Belong To The Wind(38:58m) Documentary
  • dir. Päivi Kapiainen-Heiskanen, Mikkeli, Finland
    

We are pleased to announce our Winners for the 4th Annual Toronto Beaches Film Festival!

• ‘Alegria – A Humanitarian Expedition’
  • (28:44m, Switzerland) Documentary dir. Christoph von Toggenburg
  • BEST Travel Film
    
• ‘Happy Town: Surf Suit’
  • (5:22m, Canada) Mocumentary dir. Fred Kroetsch
  • BEST Short Film
• ‘Life’s A Beach’
  • (52:58, United Kingdom) Documentary dir. John Baker
  • BEST Activism Film
    
• ‘Single In South Beach Beach’
  • (94:14, USA) Film dir. Alejandro Itkin
  • BEST Feature Film
    
• ‘Start Local’
  • (74:12, Midland, Ontario) Film dir. Nate Lacroix
  • BEST Eco-Friendly Film
    
• ‘Strange Rumblings in Shangri La’
  • (54:24m, USA) Film/Doc Hybrid dir. Joe Guglielmino (“Joe G”)
  • BEST Surf Film
    
• ‘Sybil and Betts: Requiem For A Friendship’
  • (43:42m, Canada) Documentary dir. David Bajurny
  • BEST Short Documentary
• ‘Voyage’
  • (3:20m, London, Canada) Film dir. Shaughn Cameron
  • BEST Kid-Friendly Film
• ‘Walking In Two Worlds’
  • (43:10m, USA) Documentary dir. Bo Boudart
  • BEST Feature Documentary
• ‘The Paddler Movie’
  • (43:10m, Toronto, Canada) Documentary dir. Carey Missler
  • TBFF Spirit Award
    
  • The TBFF Spirit Award goes to the filmmaker, documentary or documentary subject who most demonstrates the “Indie Spirit”, through pride of film production, promotion of film, audience engagement and producing a memorable contribution on film. This year we give this award to Carey Missler from Team #The PaddlerMovie who embodies this spirit for his tireless efforts in promoting his film and his passion for making films filled with beach culture –

The 5th Annual Toronto Beaches Film Festival will run July 8-9, 2016. See You There!

Thank you to the Toronto Beaches Community.

You showed the Toronto Beaches Film Festival (TBFF) much love in 2012, so we’re back this year with another program of summer, water and beach related films and documentaries.

Program times and tickets will be online approximately May 10th, 2013. Can’t wait to come back to the Beaches!

2nd Annual Toronto Beaches Film Festival Official Selections 2013

Here are the TBFF Official Selections for 2013:

• “Only Child“, dir. Christian Gossett (USA)
• “Scars“, dir. Cody Campanale (Canada)
• “Common Sense Rebellion“, dir. Sturla Ellingvåg (Norway)
• “Summer of The Sharks”, dir. Rusty Armstrong (USA)
• “Sur La Ligne, Variation No. 2“, dirs. Anne-Marie Turcotte, Mario Calvé (Quebec)
• “Go Ganges!“, dirs. JJ Kelley, Josh Thomas (USA/India)

 

We Proudly Announce our Award Winners for the very
1st Annual
Toronto Beaches Film Festival 2012!

• Best Short Film – “To Rest in Peace”
  directed by Fawaz Al-Matrouk (USA/Kuwait)
• Best Short Documentary – “The Pipedreams Project”
  co-directed by Faroe Des Roches and Ryan Vandecasteyen (CAN)
• Best Feature Documentary – “If I Should Fall”
  directed by Brendon Culliton (CAN)
• Best Eco-Friendly Film – “Surf, Sand and Silversides”
  (The Californian Grunion) directed by Karen Martin (USA)
• Best Kid-Friendly Film – “A Strange Day In July”
  directed by Shantal Reich (USA)
• Best Surf Film – “Breathe Life”
  directed by Antje Beyen (Germany)
• 1st TBFF Beach Spirit Award “Shag Nation”
  directed by Brittany Brothers (USA)
  • Awarded to the filmmaker who embodies the overall ‘Beach Spirit’, promotes their film and makes a memorable contribution on film

We are thrilled to share with you a letter from Mary-Margaret McMahon, Toronto City Councillor, Ward 32.

Film Fest Lovers

It gives me great pleasure to welcome you to the 1st Annual Beaches Film Festival, June 29-30, 2012 at our very own local Fox Cinema.

This festival is the first of its kind in the Beach and promises to be a wonderful annual event not to be missed for film goers.

Our city has many talented writers, artists and producers and the beach community is proud to host this festival. Thanks to the event organizers for making this event possible.

Look forward to seeing you at the Fox!
Mary-Margaret McMahon
City Councillor, Ward 32