<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>Dave Cunningham is a supervising director on the show along with Sherm Cohen. He also works on Kamp Koral: SpongeBob's Under Years, and The Patrick Star Show.</p>

Dave Cunningham

<p>Dan Fill is the president and co-founder of Dark Slope Studios - a metaverse and virtual production company that specializes in games and television production.</p><p>In this role Dan spearheads the development of innovative projects ranging from fully immersive theme park rides and spectacles, to cutting edge television programs that combine world class animation, motion tracking and a real time game engine pipeline. Dark Slope develops original intellectual properties as well as service production.&nbsp;Recent partners clients include: NBC Peacock, Nickelodeon, WildBrain, Insight Productions, AT&amp;T, TVOntario, eOne’s Secret Location, Zero Latency, Hologate and Magic Leap.&nbsp;&nbsp;</p><p>Prior to his current role, Dan was the&nbsp;head of multiplatform for the Australian Broadcasting Corporation, where he was named the top&nbsp;Digital Innovator by The Australian for his role in commissioning the country’s most popular video streaming service (iView). iView now accounts for over 900 million streams a year in Australia. Previous to ABC, Dan was the former vice president interactive of Decode Entertainment (now WildBrain). In this role, he built an award-winning internal studio producing games and immersive experiences for a global audience.</p><p>Dan is a seasoned presenter having spoken at the Banff World Media Festival (Canada), MIPCOM ( France), XMedia Labs (Singapore),&nbsp;Xmedia Labs (Melbourne) and Xmedia (Sydney), Game Developers Conference (San Francisco and San Diego), Kidscreen (New York), Asia Animation Summit (Kuala Lumpur), Kidscreen (Miami) as well as TAAFI Animation Festival (Toronto).&nbsp;&nbsp;</p><p>Dan is a co-founder of the production company Chocolate Liberation Front and a major shareholder of education and simulation company Lumeto.&nbsp;</p>

Dan Fill

<p>Watch the two finalists of TAAFI's Big Pitch go head to head in front of three Industry judges. The winner takes it all in this exciting live pitching event (plus a cash prize!). If you want to have a shot, submit your pitch in the link on our Industry home page. Or email bigpitch@taafi.com</p><p>The Big Pitch is brought to you by WildBrain.</p>

The Big Pitch presented by WildBrain

<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>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><p>Ben is also co-founder of the Toronto Animation Arts Festival International (TAAFI) and a former board member.</p>

Ben McEvoy

<p><span style="background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.04);">Darin Bristow is a 27-year veteran of the animation industry and has lent his creative, technical and production skills to over 25 TV series and feature films. Darin has held such notable positions as design supervisor,&nbsp;art director, CG supervisor, VFX artist, and currently currently serves as Pipeline Studios' supervising producer and executive creative director,&nbsp;focusing on developing the studio's top brands, such as&nbsp;</span><em style="background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.04);">Nina's World, Sunny Day</em><span style="background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.04);">, the Emmy-nominated </span><em style="background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.04);">Elinor Wonders Why!</em><span style="background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.04);"> and the recently released Fred Rogers Productions/PBS series, </span><em style="background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.04);">Alma's Way</em><span style="background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.04);">.&nbsp;</span></p>

Darin Bristow

<p><span style="background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.04);">Dave Padbury joined the Guru development team seven years ago to help guide development on the Netflix Original series </span><em style="background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.04);">True and the Rainbow Kingdom</em><span style="background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.04);">. Since then, he has worked across several of Guru’s properties, including its newest preschool series </span><em style="background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.04);">Pikwik Pack</em><span style="background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.04);"> which airs on Disney Junior US, Hulu and Treehouse in Canada, and the upcoming comedy adventure </span><em style="background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.04);">Big Blue</em><span style="background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.04);">. In his role as development executive, Dave focuses on finding and fostering new voices and perspectives to bring strong creator-driven stories to life.</span></p>

Dave Padbury

<p><span style="background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.04);">Lorna Withrington, Vice President, Development–Animation, is a recognized leader in the creative development and acquisition of kids’ and family properties with franchise appeal for the global market. As a key member of WildBrain’s content team, she helps drive the strategic vision behind the company’s diverse, multi-genre slate of original animation, collaborating closely with creators, writers, artists and other production stakeholders to instill creative excellence in WildBrain’s shows. Ms. Withrington possesses wide-ranging experience on international co-productions and in the creation of 2D, CG and hybrid series. With a career spanning such properties as </span><em style="background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.04);">Paw Patrol, PJ Masks, Peppa Pig, Bob the Builder, Fireman Sam</em><span style="background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.04);"> and </span><em style="background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.04);">Thomas &amp; Friends</em><span style="background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.04);">, Ms. Withrington has worked for some of the biggest brands in children’s content and brings this knowledge to finding and creating the next generation of children’s hits. Prior to WildBrain, Ms. Withrington held management roles in development, creative affairs, acquisitions and production with Spin Master, eOne Entertainment and HIT Entertainment / Mattel.</span></p>

Lorna Withrington

WildBrain 

<p>Darin Bristow is a 27-year veteran of the animation industry and has lent his creative, technical and production skills to over 25 TV series and feature films. Darin has held such notable positions as design supervisor,&nbsp;art director, CG supervisor, VFX artist, and currently currently serves as Pipeline Studios' supervising producer and executive creative director,&nbsp;focusing on developing the studio's top brands, such as&nbsp;<em>Nina's World, Sunny Day</em>, the Emmy-nominated <em>Elinor Wonders Why!</em> and the recently released Fred Rogers Productions/PBS series, <em>Alma's Way</em>.&nbsp;</p>