About the Festival

The One Minute Film and Video Festival first came about in 2003, as the result of a dare among lapsed-filmmaker friends in Toronto. The idea was to complete a project based in imposed time and subject-matter restrictions to make it easier to get motivated. The One Minute Film & Video Festival is an opportunity for filmmakers, from professional to amateur, to create and screen new work based around a common theme. The strict time restriction puts a premium on creativity, while making the projects (reasonably) easy to accomplish in a short period of time.

The One Minute Film and Video Festival is held annually and runs for one night at the Bloor Cinema in Toronto. The theme for the 2003 festival was neighbours, and the theme for the 2004 festival was firsts.

The theme for the 2005 festival is intersections. The Third Annual One Minute Film and Video Festival was presided over by an awards jury made up of talent from Toronto’s film video communities - Cameron Bailey (bio), Vera Frenkel (bio) and Alan Zweig.

The 2005 festival was screened in Toronto on November 24 2005 at 7:00 p.m.