TIFF 2026
TIFF Market Accelerator
The National Directors Division (NDD) of the Directors Guild of Canada is proud to announce selections for the NDD Market Accelerator Delegation at the TIFF International Film Festival 2026 running from September 10 – 20.
Amelia Moses
QuébecHæland (Supernatural Folk Horror)
After a terminal diagnosis, a headstrong forensic pathologist takes one final case on a remote English island, only to encounter an ancient spirit that transforms her understanding of life and death.
Christopher Yip
OntarioSee Me (Horror)
Blending the twisted take on modern love in OBSESSION and the queer erotic yearning of HEATED RIVALRY, SEE ME follows a voyeuristic photographer on the trail of a missing male model, who slowly loses his grip on reality as his investigation spirals into depraved obsession.
Producing Partners: Candour Pictures
Jennifer Abbott
British ColumbiaWhen Rain Becomes Fire: Fragments from War & Nature (Documentary)
A cinematic investigation into the ways war reshapes the living world, exposing a planetary crisis unfolding beyond the human frame.
Producing Partners: 90th Parallel Productions Ltd.
Kim Albright
British ColumbiaSlugfest (Comedy, Action)
When her best friend Vicky heads to Thailand for a prestigious martial arts tournament, Jolina, a grieving Filipino woman defies her smothering parents by following her. Immediately swept up in a world of sea slug psychedelics, identity theft, and Vicky’s messy personal life, she must unleash her dormant fighting talent in a wild bid for freedom.
Producing Partners: Lori Lozinski Violator Films, Nach Dudsdeemaytha Musubi Arts
Michelle and Wendy Morgan
Alberta and OntarioExvoto (Erotic Thriller)
On a homecoming trip to Chile, a struggling painter becomes entangled with her famous grandfather’s muse, a young woman who threatens to expose the unspeakable past they share.
Producing Partners: Enrique Baniqued, Monumental Productions
Laurie Townshend
OntarioTallawah (Documentary)
In a forgotten corner of Kingston, Jamaica, sits a weathered basketball court that is both refuge and proving ground for two young women chasing improbable hoop dreams and daring to imagine their futures beyond the game.
Producing Partners: Akelo Media Corp headed by Amar Lohana (Producer) and Habiba Nosheen (Executive Producer)
Nicole Stamp
OntarioFrom the Wreckage(Queer coming-of-age Rock Musical)
In a Toronto Catholic high school, two girls fall in love: a misfit musician from a broken home, and a reserved painter from a close-knit Black immigrant family. Their joyful love story sparks them to exciting creative heights: one composes a rock album; the other creates vibrant paintings. But being together has a cost, and their different backgrounds mean the stakes aren’t equal. Based on a multi-award-winning stage play written by teenagers, FROM THE WRECKAGE is a smartass rock musical with no jazz hands.
Producing Partners: Executive Producers: 90th Parallel Productions (Stuart Henderson and Javiera Quintana), and Sarah Polley.
Tyson Caron
ManitobaDad Can’t Skate (Rom Com)
When his hockey-obsessed daughter begins bonding with her mother’s new fiancé, a divorced father who has never learned to skate must conquer his lifelong fear of the ice before he loses his place in her life and misses his own chance at love.
Producing Partners: Grosvenor Park
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