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Canadian Labour International Film Festival ENTRY DEADLINE EXTENDED - August 31

The inaugural Canadian Labour International Film Festival (CLiFF), which runs this November 22 - 27 at the Bloor Cinema in Toronto, has extended their entry deadline by one month due to heightened interest by filmmakers. The Festival is open to submissions from all film and video makers. As posted on CLiFF's website, the Festival is "looking for films on a wide spectrum of issues affecting the whole spectrum of society. We seek films about privatization, youth, First Nations people, people of colour, immigrants, refugees, detainees, health and safety, resistance, art, poetry, women, lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgendered people, taxi drivers, truck drivers, rickshaw drivers – anyone who does anything considered work."

Eligibility
1 The Festival is open to all film and video makers.
2 The Festival is open to all lengths but there is a strong preference for shorter works.
3 Films and videos must be in English or have English sub-titles. French subtitles are also accepted (and encouraged)
4 Works in progress are ineligible (except by recommendation of the Selection Committee).

Special Calls
In addition to our open-call, where we look at anything and everything, the Festival is especially looking for:

Flash features, micro documentaries, archival oddities and cell phone video submissions under 5 minutes in length. Accepted formats include DVD, VHS, Quicktime, .AVI, Flash. If you wish to be considered by the CLiFF Selection Committee, mark the appropriate place on the submission form. Open to all.

There are no submission fees.

Visit http://labourfilms.ca/cliff/for details about the Festival.