Take 21, previously Toronto Student Film Festival or TSFF, is an annual event for youth to showcase their talent in a variety of short film genres. Take 21 has attracted film makers from several countries. Prizes have focused on work experiences in the industry, scholarships to film making programmes, money, and film equipment.
History
In the fall of 2005, three grade twelve students from
Crescent School in Toronto, Ontario, approached their teacher, Jamie MacRae, with the idea of creating a new student film festival specifically designed to showcase youth talent, and creativity. The festival would provide an opportunity for students from any part of the world to screen their media works and short films. The TSFF Founding Committee was made up of these three Crescent School students – Zack Russell, Gordon Steiner, and David Whyte, Jamie MacRae (Head of Media Arts, Crescent School, Colin Lowndes Head of Crescent’s Upper
ighSchool, and entertainment executive Pat Macdonald.
Past Finalists
2014 Finalists
2013 Finalists
2012 Finalists
2011 Finalists
Past Judges
2014
Sarah GoodmanMaxine Bailey
2013
:Ron Mann
Ronald Mann (born June 13, 1958), credited professionally as Ron Mann, is a Canadian documentary film director.
His work includes the films ''Imagine the Sound'' (1981); ''Comic Book Confidential'' (1988); ''Grass'' (1999) and ''Go Further'' ( ...
:Susan Coyne
Susan Coyne (born 16 June 1958) is a Canadian writer and actress, best known as one of the co-creators and co-stars of the award-winning ''Slings & Arrows'', a TV series which ran 2003–06 about a Canadian Shakespearean theatre company. She ...
:Richard Crouse
Richard Crouse (born May 26, 1963) is a Canadian film critic for CTV News Channel and CP24.
Life and career
He was the film critic for ''Canada AM'' from 2005 until the show's cancellation in 2016. He hosted ''In Short'' on Bravo, was the host ...
2012
:Jesse Wente
Jesse Wente is a First Nations Canadian arts journalist and chairperson of the Canada Council for the Arts. He is an Ojibwe member of Serpent River First Nation.
Background
Jesse Wente was born in Toronto, Ontario in 1974. His maternal grandmoth ...
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:Ron Mann
Ronald Mann (born June 13, 1958), credited professionally as Ron Mann, is a Canadian documentary film director.
His work includes the films ''Imagine the Sound'' (1981); ''Comic Book Confidential'' (1988); ''Grass'' (1999) and ''Go Further'' ( ...
2011
:Sarah Polley
Sarah Ellen Polley (born January 8, 1979) is a Canadian actress,Howell, Peter (September 24, 1999)"Nobody's Starlet: Toronto's Sarah Polley is Only 20 but already a veteran actor so secure in her craft she can thumb her nose at Hollywood" ''Tor ...
:Jane Tattersal
:Yonah Lewis
Yonah Lewis (born March 2, 1986) is a Canadians, Canadian film director and screenwriter, who collaborates on most of his work with Calvin Thomas (director), Calvin Thomas.James Adams"Yonah Lewis and Calvin Thomas: filmmakers" ''The Globe and Mai ...
and Calvin Thomas
2010
:Niv Fichman
Niv Fichman ( he, ניב פיכמן; born 1958) is an Israeli Canadian, Israeli-Canadian film producer, actor and director.
Some of the films he has produced include ''Passchendaele (film), Passchendaele'', ''Blindness (2008 film), Blindness'', ...
:Deepa Mehta
Deepa Mehta, (; born 1 January 1950) is an Indian-born Canadian film director and screenwriter, best known for her Elements Trilogy, Fire (1996 film), ''Fire'' (1996), ''Earth (1998 film), Earth'' (1998), and ''Water (2005 film), Water'' (2005 ...
:Paul Gross
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Gross is known for his lead role as Constable Benton Fraser in the popular Canadian television series ''Due So ...
Past Sponsors
2014
Platinum Sponsors
CBC Documentary Channel
Vistek
Celtx
Royal St. George's College
Gold Sponsors
Independent Producers Studio
Victoria University
Crescent School
Canuck Camera
Silver Sponsors
Balmoral Dental Arts
Raindance Canada
Johnnyland
Max the Mutt
Canada Home Movies
Toronto Youth Shorts Film Festival
2013
Gold Sponsors
Celtx
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Vervegirl Magazine
Cineplex
Crescent School
Royal St. George's College
Royal St. George's College (RSGC) is an independent school for boys located in The Annex neighbourhood of Toronto, Ontario, Canada. The school admits boys from Grades 3 through 12. Founded in 1961 as an Anglican choir school in the tradition of t ...
YoungCuts Festival
Silver Sponsors
Crumpler
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Max The Mutt
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Toronto Home Movies
2012
Gold SponsorsBMO Nesbitt Burnes
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Cineplex
New York Film Academy
New York Film Academy – School of Film and Acting (NYFA) is a private for-profit film school and acting school based in New York City, Los Angeles, and Miami. The New York Film Academy was founded in 1992 by Jerry Sherlock, a former film, t ...
Toronto Academy of Acting for Film & Television
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Witz Education
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Royal St. George's College
Royal St. George's College (RSGC) is an independent school for boys located in The Annex neighbourhood of Toronto, Ontario, Canada. The school admits boys from Grades 3 through 12. Founded in 1961 as an Anglican choir school in the tradition of t ...
Crescent School
Silver Sponsors
Australian Boot Company
Crumpler
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Max The Mutt
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Picton Picturefest
Rooster Post
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Toronto Home Movies
External links
TSFF Website
TSFF Facebook Page
TSFF Twitter Page
References
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Short film festivals in Canada
Film festivals in Toronto
Student film festivals