<h3>Where</h3><p>Online</p><h3>When</h3><p>March 24-26, 2022</p>

Toronto Animation Film Festival

<h3>Where</h3><p>Online</p><h3>When</h3><p>March 24-27, 2021</p>

<h3>Where</h3><p>Hot Docs Cinema | Toronto, Canada | 506 Bloor Street West</p><h3>When</h3><p>Monday April 25th</p>

<h3>Where</h3><p>Online</p><h3>When</h3><p>November 11-13, 2021</p>

Toronto Animation Industry Conference

<h3>Where</h3><p>Online</p><h3>When</h3><p>November 18-22, 2020<span class="ql-cursor">﻿</span></p>

<h3>Where</h3><p>Corus Quay, Toronto, Canada, 25 Dockside Dr.</p><h3>When</h3><p>Saturday to Sunday, November 2-3, 2019</p>

Toronto Animation / VFX Job Fair

TAAFI News

<p>Ben leads creative initiatives for agencies, brands, media companies, entrepreneurs and educators, providing brand and content strategy, as well as hands-on creative production in animation, live-action, interactive web, apps, VR/AR, game development, events and interactive public activations, on projects throughout Canada, and internationally in the US, India, Singapore and China.&nbsp;</p><p>As partner / executive producer, Friends &amp; Enemies, Ben works with his team of senior creatives and a broad network of multi-disciplinary production partners creating original and branded content experiences for brands, agencies and media clientele.&nbsp;</p><p>Ben is also co-founder and chair of the Toronto Animation Arts Festival International (TAAFI), and teaches in the Seneca Animation and Interactive Documentary programs.&nbsp;</p><p>Notable clients include: Google, VICE Studios, 20th Century Fox, Lionsgate, CBC, Doc Channel, Teletoon, YTV, CTV, Discovery Channel, The History Channel, TVO Kids, Shaftesbury, and the National Film Board of Canada.</p>

Ben McEvoy

<p>Daytime Emmy nominee and 5-time Canadian Comedy Award nominee Brandon Lane is a showrunner, director, screenwriter and development producer at legendary Canadian studio Nelvana. Brandon has overseen the production of over 360 hours of content, collaborating with partners like Disney, Netflix, HBO, Cartoon Network, Nickelodeon, Sesame Workshop and Sony Pictures Animation. He showruns the Youth Media Alliance Award of Excellence-winning preschool series ""Miss Persona"". Brandon previously had a 5-year stint as production executive for YTV, Teletoon, Treehouse and Adult Swim Canada. He is also showrunner, director and co-creator of "Space Dragon &amp; Kim", a web series for Shaftesbury's Sorta TV YouTube channel and co-showrunner on ""D.N. Ace"" for Nelvana.</p><p>Prior to working for Corus, he developed, creative produced and wrote for YTV's "Numb Chucks", as well as co-created and creative produced YTV's "Cache Craze". He has also written for Amazon &amp; TVO's Emmy-nominated "Dino Dana" and CBC Kids' "What's Your News?". He oversaw production for Corus Kids on "Hotel Transylvania", "Esme &amp; Roy", "Cupcake &amp; Dino: General Services" (which New York Times named one of the best new shows of 2018) and many other kids' series. Brandon recently wrote and directed an award-winning musical film called "Princess Sparkly Butt &amp; The Hot Dog Kid", adapted from an award-winning play he also wrote and directed.</p>

Brandon Lane

<p>Learn from one half of two of the most esteemed teams in co-directing. John Musker shares his secrets from his collaborations at Disney with Ron Clements, and Mark Thornton of Neptoon Studios shares his tricks from partner Todd Kauffman. These dynamic duos have co-directed such films and television series as Moana, Grojband, The Little Mermaid, Corner Gas Animated, The Princess and the Frog, Looped, Aladdin, Total Drama Island, Hercules, and Treasure Planet.</p><p>Learn some tips, hear some stories, and share some laughs.</p>

Co-Directing (Learning How to Cooperate and Play Nice)

Barnabas Wornoff

<p>John Musker is a 40 year veteran of the Walt Disney Animation Studio where co-directed all your favorite films. Including <em>The Little Mermaid </em>(1989), <em>Aladdin </em>(1992), <em>Hercules </em>(1997), <em>Treasure Planet </em>( 2002), <em>The Princess and the Frog </em>( 2009) and most recently <em>Moana </em>(2016.)</p>

John Musker

Mark Thornton

Closing Remarks

John Rooney

<p><span style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34);">Barnabas Wornoff is a senior animator, animation professor and one of the co-founders TAAFI where he helps with speaker programming and other fun shtuffs.&nbsp;</span></p><p><span style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34);">Wornoff is a full-time professor at Seneca College, where he coordinates the 3rd year 2D stream and mentors his students while they make incredible cartoons.</span></p><p>Wornoff also animates for top tier animation studios in Toronto, and has worked on Corner Gas Animated, Nature Cat, Daniel Tiger's Neighborhood, Total Drama Island, Jimmy Two Shoes, Peg and Corn, and did storyboard cleanup on Danny Phantom. Currently he's a freelance animator for Nelvana on Sesame Street's second season of Esme and Roy.</p><p>Barnabas has his Masters in Creative Media and Education from Bournemouth University in England.</p>