[CAT] "Cats' world domination continues With TIFF's Just for Cats Fest"

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NOW Toronto Aidan Johnston reports on an upcoming cat-themed film festival here in Toronto, on the 17th of April.

Humanity has a long and storied history of giving cats an adoring amount of attention for accomplishing absolutely nothing. From Egyptian worship to the subject of the second longest-running Broadway musical of all time, a musical called Cats about cats singing about other cats, we just can’t seem to get enough of our oddly endearing feline overlords.

Now that the internet has become a litter box of cats doing silly things, cat videos have become a new art form unto themselves. But the genre is cluttered. That's where TIFF programmer Magali Simard, who will be presenting the Just for Cats Film Festival on April 17 in partnership with the Canadian Federation of Humane Societies, comes in.

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The selected videos for the festival come from submissions to the Walker Arts Centre in Minneapolis, where the festival debuts. “It will go on to tour other cities in Canada after a week launch here,” Magali explains. “It’s a full event. There’s a red carpet with cats up for adoption from the Humane Society.” The event is also a fundraiser.