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Toronto Animation Film Festival

Toronto Animation Industry Conference

Toronto Animation / VFX Job Fair

Four days of animated films to brighten your quarantine and teach you how to laugh again.

Enjoy epic cartoons from around the world from the comfort of your own bedroom. Toronto’s animation festival brings you shorts, features and retrospectives curated to excite, entrance, and delight. It's all happening ONLINE through the miracle of the interweb March 24th - 27th, 2021.

Wed, Mar 24th

Thu, Mar 25th

Fri, Mar 26th

Elliott Animation

Sat, Mar 27th

Festival Highlights

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Wolfwalkers

8:35PM - 10:05PM

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The Croods: A New Age + Live Q & A with Director Joel Crawford

10:50AM - 12:45PM

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Nahuel and the Magic Book + Live Q & A with Director Germán Acuña

4:10PM - 6:15PM

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Kids Cartoons - FREE SCREENING (Shorts 4)

9:10AM - 10:15AM

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Heavy Metal: 40th Anniversary Screening + Livestream Q & A with Director Gerald Potterton!

8:15PM - 10:05PM

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Hullabaloo Rough-Cut + Q & A

6:30PM - 8:00PM

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Violence Voyager + Q & A with Ujicha

8:45PM - 10:09PM

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Hilda: Behind the Deerfox

2:30PM - 4:00PM

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Gerald Potterton Retrospective & Talk

7:00PM - 8:30PM

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Student Shorts (Shorts 5)

1:00PM - 2:35PM

Student Pass

Limited quantities available

Online Access

$25

13 x Screenings

80 + Films

Access to ALL Features

*Buy 5 students passes and get them for $20 each*

General Pass

Limited quantities available

Online Access

$35

13 x Screenings

80 + Films

Access to ALL Features

*Buy 5 passes and get them all for $30 each*

Single Ticket

Limited quantities available

Regular

$10

*There are no single tickets to some features*

FREE Kids Screening!

Limited quantities available

G Rated

FREE

*9am Saturday March 27th Only*

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2021 Kaj Pindal Award Recipient: Gerald Potterton

TAAFI is proud to announce that the Animated Person Of The Year award will henceforth be known at the Kaj Pindal award. Kaj Pindal (1927-2019) was an instrumental force in Canadian animation through his work with the National Film Board of Canada (NFB) and it is our pleasure to rename the award in his honour.

Past recipients include Kaj Pindal, Ray Harryhausen, Marv Newland, Dean DeBlois (Dir. How to Train Your Dragon), Blair Kitchen and this years recipient Gerald Potterton!

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Sponsorship opportunities

Interested in sponsoring some of the activities or film blocks at this year’s festival? We’d love to hear from you!!

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Volunteer Information

Want to volunteer at this year’s festival? Well things are kinda weird, but we'll need a few savvy Discord users to help out. Think you got what it takes? Fill out this form! Thanks dudes!

Sponsors

TAAFI is a non-profit volunteer organization, supported by many of the leading animation studios and industry organizations throughout the year as well as at each of the events. Without them we couldn't bring our programs to you, our audience.

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