By Michael Crabb Apart from the perennial issues of funding, one can only imagine the logistical challenges facing the organizers of an annual festival such as Toronto’s Fall For Dance North (FFDN) in the still unsettled wake of a disruptive global pandemic. Festivals are generally mapped out years in advance, often based on the international
By Rachel Silver Maddock In an age of unending video content through Instagram, TikTok and ever-increasing streaming platforms, F-O-R-M (Festival of Recorded Movement) is carving out space for a slower, more refined approach to making film art. The annual international festival commissions youth (ages 15-25) and emerging artists (25+) to make short films over a
By Michael Crabb The biggest single event of the 2021 Fall For Dance North Festival, September 11 to October 29, was the screening before a live 450-member audience in Toronto’s 3,200-seat Meridian Hall of a triple bill of films called Signature Program — this despite the fact that according to recently eased public health mandates