The Toronto International Deaf Film and Arts Festival (TIDFAF) is a non-profit organization that presents bi-annual arts and cultural festival that promotes educational awareness, cultural diversity, and the celebration of emerging “Deaf Cinema” through the visual medium.TIDFAF, a first and only festival of its kind in Canada, is one of the fastest growing Deaf festivals globally.The biannual festival showcases the work of talented national and international Deaf, deaf, hard of hearing, and Deaf-blind filmmakers and artists as well as those who produce works in collaboration with the Deaf and hearing community. TIDFAF does not only represent the story of Deaf culture, it represents diverse layers of the human experience we are all familiar with.