May 7, 2025

After several rounds of black smoke, white smoke emerged from the TFCA’s spring conclave earlier this week to mark the election of two new members. The TFCA is pleased to welcome Barbara Goslawski and Winnie Wang to the membership.

Barbara Goslawski is co-host/co-producer of Frameline who joined during its CKLN days. As a freelance writer and film critic for the past 30 years, she has contributed to numerous dailies and magazines including Exclaim!, Screen Anarchy, POV Magazine, The Globe and Mail, The Canadian Film Encyclopedia, Box Office Magazine, as well as to several books. A veteran of the Canadian film industry, Barbara has worked in many key areas including distribution and programming, and has also served on various festival juries.

Winnie Wang is a writer, programmer and cultural worker. Their writing on film and literature has appeared in Cinema Scope, Los Angeles Review of Books, Documentary Magazine, POV, Little White Lies, and Toronto Star. They won the 2024 Telefilm Canada Emerging Critic Award from the TFCA.

TFCA Awards and 2025 Voting Dates

Additionally, the TFCA has set its voting dates for the 2025 TFCA awards:

Nomination voting deadline: Wednesday, December 3.

Live vote (announcing winners and runners up): Sunday, December 7 @ noon EST.

Gala date is TBD.

Category updates may follow the fall meeting.

The TFCA would also like to clarify the recent shift to gender neutral acting categories. This decision reflects an understanding of the evolving nature of gender diversity and seeks to address complicated conversations in the film industry where acting categories are the only distinctions awarded upon a gender binary at many award shows. The TFCA combined its lead and supporting categories in 2023. The number of nominees and winners remains the same with six nominees and two winners, except in the case of a tie in the nomination round, as happened last year. In the final round, members get to vote for two performers with two votes accorded equal weight. The top two actors are deemed the winners. The wins are jointly awarded. They are not ties. We hope that our peers in the industry can join us in celebrating our favourite performances of the year within a contemporary framework.

We recognize that this is new terrain and that many organizations are having similar conversations, and we always welcome feedback as we fine-tune the process.

We look forward to celebrating the year in film!