<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>John Rooney has a vast history within kids television in Canada starting in the late 90’s working with YTV. Rising through the ranks, John became director of programming and was instrumental in shaping the Corus Kids &amp; Family brands. He successfully created strategies for such brands as Bionix, Nickelodeon Canada and ABC Spark Canada.</p><p>John successfully transitioned over to TELETOON and became Director of Programming responsible for content strategy for TELETOON, TELETOON Retro and launching Cartoon Network and Adult Swim in Canada.</p><p>John has recently joined TAAFI (Toronto Animation Arts Festival International) as Program Director and is involved in the planning of TAAFI’s annual Industry Conference and programming TAAFI’s annual Animation Festival. </p><p>Currently, John is working as a consultant advising various clients on content strategy, programming, development, curation, research and trending. His clients include Epic Story Media; DHX Television; Zodiak Media; Shaftesbury; Apartment 11 and marblemedia.</p>

John Rooney

<p>Jeff&nbsp;Robinson (born in Vancouver, 1980) - animator, filmmaker and woodworker</p><p>During his over fifteen years of experience in the animation industry,&nbsp;Jeff&nbsp;has worked on many TV, feature and commercial projects.&nbsp;&nbsp;Jeff&nbsp;loves cartoons, mahogany and monsters.</p><p>Jeff&nbsp;currently works as an animation director at Sinking Ship Entertainment in Toronto. In the midnight hours he is making the first ever monster movie about a ten foot tall mutant Canadian goose.</p>

Jeff Robinson

<p>There is another venue of creativity for animation artists besides the series and feature film world - short films! The art of creating your own short and showing it around the world is often underappreciated. These talented creators and directors will discuss their journey of taking an idea, creating a short, and getting it in front of audiences internationally.</p>

Navigating The World Of Shorts

Joel MacKenzie

Mathias Richard Horhager

Sam Bradley

<p><span style="color: rgb(38, 50, 56);">GRITTY, FRESH, and FUN. Joel's work has been screened at some of the top festivals in the world and that has opened the door to take his ideas further with clients. Currently he is developing shows with Corus/Teletoon, Sonar/Wildseed, and Boat Rocker media. He also has a short with Nickelodeon, and a bunch of other ideas he is trying to get off the ground. He hopes to own a dog someday and eventually play every video game in the world.</span></p>