<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>Brenda Chapman started her career as a story artist at Walt Disney Feature Animation in 1987, where she worked on her favorite fairytales: The Little Mermaid, and Beauty and the Beast. She also worked on a few other non-fairytales and was the story supervisor on the original The Lion King for which she won an Annie. Chapman then helped launch DreamWorks Animation Studios, where she co-directed The Prince of Egypt. In 2003, Chapman joined Pixar Animation Studios where she created, wrote and directed Brave – inspired by her relationship with her daughter - and won an Oscar, BAFTA and Golden Globe. Chapman recently finished her first live-action film Come Away, which premiered at the 2020 Sundance Film Festival and is due to be released November 13, 2020. Currently, Chapman is working on a novel, a memoir and a children’s book.&nbsp;</p>

Brenda Chapman

<p>Daytime Emmy nominee and 5-time Canadian Comedy Award nominee Brandon Lane is an award-winning director, showrunner, screenwriter and producer. He currently works as Development Producer at legendary Canadian animation-house Nelvana, previously working as Production Executive for Teletoon, YTV, Treehouse and Adult Swim Canada. Over the past decade, Brandon has overseen the production of over 380 hours of content, collaborating with partners like Disney, Netflix, HBO, Cartoon Network, Nickelodeon, Sesame Workshop, Hulu and Sony Pictures Animation. He currently showruns and directs the Youth Media Alliance Award of Excellence-winning preschool series <em>Miss Persona</em>, airing daily on Treehouse. Brandon co-created, wrote and directed the award-winning feature film <em>Princess Sparkly Butt &amp; The Hot Dog Kid</em> for Teletoon. The film was adapted from an award-winning Toronto Fringe Festival play Brandon also wrote and directed. He is showrunner, director and co-creator of <em>Space Dragon &amp; Kim</em> for Shaftesbury Kids and was co-showrunner on <em>D.N. Ace</em> for Teletoon. He is the creator and head writer of <em>Bunker Buds</em>, currently in development with CBC Kids through the CBC Creative Relief Fund.</p>

Brandon Lane

<p>It’s time for our annual Big Pitch contest!</p><p>Most competitions usually only offer critiques by industry execs.&nbsp;</p><p>The Big Pitch will feature a panel of judges representing departments throughout the animation pipeline. You’ll learn not only what makes a pitch sell but how to make it work from every angle!&nbsp;&nbsp;</p><p><br></p>

The Big Pitch

Barry A Sanders

Janice Walker

Stephen Sloan

WildBrain 

<p>A 22 year veteran of the animation industry, Barry’s work includes commercial and television animation, storyboards, animation supervision, and illustration for a variety of clients and studios including Brown Story, Guru, DHX, Nelvana, Snowball, Axyz and the National Film Board of Canada.</p><p>He founded the Toronto based animation lecture series Animatic T.O. in 2013, spent three years as the vice-president of the Toronto Animated Image Society and joined the board of the TAAFI animation festival in 2017.</p><p>A previous winner of TAC’s Pitch This competition and OIAF's Iron Developer contest, Barry has developed and continues to expand a slate of development-ready properties.</p>