A bold expansion of TIFF’s annual offering for global screen professionals across film, series, and innovation. This year’s programme brings together exhibition spaces, promotional opportunities, market screenings, talks, delegate services, and creator development to deliver a truly comprehensive
industry experience.
What is TIFF: The Market?
SERIES
FILM
INNOVATION
Opportunities
with Results
Market programming streams will turn opportunities into results, each with the intention of supporting professional growth, project development, international collaboration, and a healthy screen sector.
Impactful
Experiences
Impactful curated experiences that support global screen professionals, across film, television, and innovation. From presentations, panels and labs to showcases, networking, mentorship, and funds.
What to expect from
TIFF: The Market programming?
Cameron Bailey, CEO, TIFF (left),
Donna Langley, DBE, Chairman of NBCUniversal Entertainment & Studios (right)
TIFF Visionaries
Business
A designed space featuring a selection of curated projects that demonstrate the year’s best XR and headset-free innovative, interactive, and narrative-based experiences.
The Hub showcases creative concepts, highlights diverse revenue pathways, and demonstrates innovative opportunities across formats, intending to integrate immersive storytelling into the broader market.
Business
Innovation Hub
Showcasing the best of immersive storytelling
Participation: All registered professionals via a designated time slot for entry | When: 7 days at TIFF: The Market | Where:�MTCC |
International Financing
& Project Market
Powering global partnerships for the screen industry
A curated engine, presented by Ontario Creates, to accelerate financing and help find co-production and international collaborators for projects.
50 established producers showcasing 40 films, 5 series, and 5 immersive or interactive projects to 60 decision-makers, all curated by TIFF’s Market Team.
Projects across screen sectors, including fiction and non-fiction, all genres and forms.
Selected projects will have a scheduled “work-in-progress screening” for Market delegates.
Business
Participation: Submission process, with selected applicants | When: 3 days at TIFF: The Market | Where:�MTCC |
IP Exchange
�Where original stories expand their future
Designated space and exclusive presentation opportunities for individuals and companies with intellectual property across publishing, brands, gaming, and immersive media to meet with film and series production companies and studios to option their stories.
Onstage talks to build awareness on rights management, adaptation, and licensing.
Empowering IP holders with global visibility and business opportunities to shape the next frontier of screen and storytelling.
Business
Participation: Registered companies with selected IP, and a participation fee | When: 3 days at TIFF: The Market | Where:�MTCC |
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Lulu Wang , Dir. Expats (left), Cord Jefferson, Dir. American Fiction (middle),
Geoff Macnaughton, VP Market Programming, TIFF (right)
TIFF Dialogues
Presentations
Speakers’ Summit
Where the future of multi-format storytelling takes shape
Industry leaders and emerging voices converge to discuss creative, technological, and business forces shaping the future of the screen industries.
Featuring keynotes, panels, and conversations across screen-based media. Past speakers include:
Guillermo del Toro, Luca Guadagnino, Leslye Headland, Bong Joon Ho, Nadine Labaki, Donna Langley, Spike Lee, Ladj Ly, Aaron Sorkin, and more.
Presentations
Participation: Open to Market delegates on first come, first serve basis | When: 7 days at TIFF: The Market | Where:�MTCC |
Loren Hammonds, TIME (left),
Yelena Rachistky, Head of Emerging Formats, META (right)
TIFF Dialogues
Partner Programming
& Events
Where partners shape conversations and opportunities
Collaborative programming between TIFF: The Market and leading industry brands, trade magazines, national bodies, community leaders, and film commissions.
Through a range of dynamic presentation formats the events deliver targeted insights to designated sectors of professional attendees.
Presentations
Participation: Registered companies with selected IP, and a participation fee | When: Open to Market delegates on first come, first serve basis, with some private events | |
A live platform where selected creators pitch market-ready films, series, and immersive or interactive IP projects through themed presentations to a jury of expert decision-makers for constructive feedback.
Designed in both competitive and non-competitive formats, with sponsored awards and development funds from corporate, industry, and foundational partners.
Proven model inspired by successful events, including Alfred P. Sloan Foundation’s Project Pitch, Caribbean Tales’ The Big Pitch, Gold House’s Gold Pitch Filmmaker Showcase, and Telefilm Canada’s Pitch This!
Presentations
Presentations
Pitch Stage
�Accelerating bold, commercially-ready projects and igniting creator success
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TIFF Visionaries
Creative
Development
Guillermo Del Toro, Dir. Frankenstein (left),
Cameron Bailey, CEO, TIFF (right)
Directors’ Lab: Five days, 20 emerging directors refining and preparing their first features for worldwide audiences.
Creative Labs
�Developing emerging creatives through collaboration, mentorship, and global industry engagement
Creative Development
Series Creators’ Lab: Four days structured to empower eight Canadian series-creator teams from under-represented communities. Focus is on elevating premium episodic television IP for production and global distribution.
Writers’ Lab: Five days, eight emerging screenwriters participating in workshops, table reads, peer mentorship, one-on-one consultations, and script polishing with a development executive.
Awards provide funding and mentorship to original projects and creators, advancing TIFF: The Market’s mission to diversify the screen industry.
Funds provide mentorship and professional training from renowned creatives and executives across the entire lifecycle of a project — from development and production to post-production, distribution, and festival strategy.
Fellowships provide emerging creators from equity-deserving communities with grants, and access to Creative Development programming with travel and per-diem support, to bring their projects to realization.
Proven models inspired by successful programmes, including CBC Films Screenwriter Award, CHANEL Women Creators’ Network, CJ & TIFF K-Story Fund, Monkeypaw Productions’ NO DRAMA, NBA and OLG Films for Fans, Netflix Talent Accelerator, and more.
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Funds, Awards & Fellowships
�Mentorship, financial support, and industry recognition from global partners
Creative Development
Participation: Selected applicants from a submission process or industry nominations | When: 5 days at TIFF: The Market | Where:�Hotel Partner TBC |
Creative Development
Our year-round programmes — including panels, keynotes, market bootcamps, networking, and specialized sessions — equip participants to navigate industry trends, overcome challenges, and connect with collaborators and potential partners.
Mentorships and Market trips support creators from underrepresented communities with bespoke opportunities to develop, refine, and pursue distribution and sales for projects.
Proven model inspired by successful programmes such as DGC Artist Talks, Every Story Accelerator supported by RBC, Pre-Market Bootcamps supported by Ontario Creates.
Business Readiness
Year-round creator and project support for market readiness
Participation: All access and selected applicants for mentorships and Market trips | When: Year-round and at TIFF: The Market | Where:�TIFF Lightbox Hotel Partner TBC |
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For more info: tiff.net/themarket
Registration
now open!