The Barrie Film Festival is an annual film festival in

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. It is held at the Barrie Uptown Theater. Since it began in 1997, the festival has expanded to include galas, a short-film competition, a director's brunch, educational workshops and guest Q&As. It is associated with The Film Circuit, a division of the

Toronto International Film Festival The Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF, often stylized as tiff) is one of the largest publicly attended film festivals in the world, attracting over 480,000 people annually. Since its founding in 1976, TIFF has grown to become a perman ...

. The festival briefly moved to the Bayfield cinema in 2009 when the downtown cinema closed and changed hands

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Film festivals in Ontario Non-profit organizations based in Barrie Film festivals established in 1997 Culture of Barrie {{Canada-film-festival-stub

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