When we launched Pendance in 2017, we had one thing going for us—great mentors. As filmmakers ourselves, we'd had so many opportunities to talk to and connect with programmers at film festivals we respected in order to understand the day-to-day grind of putting on a...
Past selections, festival favorites, cinema classics, roundtable discussions and video essays, all in one place. The Pendance Library represents a renewed focus from the Pendance Film Festival to bring great content to our audience, year-round. Boasting over 50 new titles on launch with the promise...
Straight Up | Feb 21, 8:00pm | TIFF Bell Lightbox BUY TICKETS Starring Katie Findlay (The Killing), Randall Park (Aquaman), Betsy Brandt (Breaking Bad), James Scully (You Season 2) and the uber-talented James Sweeney, this film is a winner. It's hilarious, and one of the best-written films...
The Pendance Film Festival is excited to announce a new partnership with Via Rail Canada to create the new Rise Canada program. Rise Canada is a program open to all Canadian filmmakers 30 or under. The program provides full travel to Toronto for the Pendance...
We're pleased to welcome the first 6 short films selected to Pendance 2020. The Van - Erenik Bequiri (Albania) The Van finally stops, the doors open and Ben comes out alive. A few more fights and he will be able to pay his way out of Albania,...
So much of what made Pendance 2019 successful was about the films. But so much of it wasn't. Who could forget Mark Raso's filmmaking workshop? Or Quest director Santiago Rizzo's heart-felt skype Q&A about youth in crisis? And what would Pendance's opening-night feature 'Age Out' have been...
There could have been no home finer than The Velvet Underground. Pendance's new Music Director Walter Noseworthy had visited and researched every concert venue in Toronto and when it came down to where he wanted to host the opening night concert to launch the Pendance...
