The Toronto Film Festival is set to lay off 15 employees as the prestigious September event rethinks its Audience First 2018 to 2022 strategic plan
Around 15 jobs will go as TIFF rethinks its Audience First strategic plan by holding more"transformative" events beyond film screenings.
Joana Vicente, former executive director of the Independent Filmmaker Project and Made in NY Media Center, was later "As a normal course of business, we recalibrated our strategic plan to achieve optimal impact and be more efficient. The TIFF team is working over the next few months on the implementation of this refocused plan. We will have more details to share in the spring," the festival added in its statement.
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