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

Toronto Animation Film Festival

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

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

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

Toronto Animation Industry Conference

<h3>Where</h3>Online<h3>When</h3>November 18-22, 2020﻿

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

Toronto Animation / VFX Job Fair

TAAFI News

Expect the unexpected with Seán Cullen, a nimble master of improvisation and accomplished impressionist who delights in the absurd. For two-and-a-half decades, Cullen has dominated the Canadian comedy scene as an award-winning comedian, actor, author and screenwriter.Just last year, Sean returned to Just for Laughs festival in Montreal with is own hour long show! Additionally, after ten years, Sean traveled back to Melbourne Australia for a successful FIVE STAR reviewed performance at The Melbourne Comedy Festival. Not only that, Sean won a Canadian Screen Award for his voice work on Almost Naked Animals! It has a huge year for Sean, and he's excited for more to come.Sean Cullen is regularly broadcast on TVs across the globe. In live action, Sean is a series regular and star panelist on Match Game (The Comedy Network), and has guest starred or appeared in Spun Out (CTV), Murdoch Mysteries, What Would Sal Do (Super Channel), The Stanley Dynamic, Odd Squad (TVO Kids), and was featured on the Just For Laughs: All Access (The Comedy Network), The Halifax Comedy Festival (CBC), and the Winnipeg Comedy Festival ( CBC) television specials.In animation, Sean's leant his voice and contributed stories to the children's animated series Rocket Monkeys as Gus (Teletoon) and to Almost Naked Animals playing Narwhal and Piggy (YTV/Cartoon Network/CITV UK) - the series was selected as one of People Magazine's top children's shows and earned him a Gemini-nomination for Best Writing in a Children's or Youth Program or Series. Sean also regularly voices Shelbourne, Tim, and Old Rick in Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs, Inspector Gadget (Teletoon), Knuckleheads (CBC/Teletoon), and Winston Steinburger (Teletoon), among others.• ACTRA Award Nomination (2019) Outstanding Performance – Voice (Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs)•• ACTRA Award WINNER (2011) Outstanding Performance – Voice (Jimmy Two-Shoes)••• Canadian Screen Award WINNER (2014) – Best Performance in an Animated Program (Almost Naked Animals)•••• Gemini Award for Performance in a Variety Series - Just for Laughs Episode 1- Canadian Comedy Award winner for Best Male Performance

Expect the unexpected with Seán Cullen, a nimble master of improvisation and accomplished impressionist who delights in the absurd. For two-and-a-half decades, Cullen has dominated the Canadian comedy scene as an award-winning comedian, actor, author and screenwriter.Just last year, Sean returned to Just for Laughs festival in Montreal with is own hour long show! Additionally, after ten years, Sean traveled back to Melbourne Australia for a successful FIVE STAR reviewed performance at The Melbourne Comedy Festival. Not only that, Sean won a Canadian Screen Award for his voice work on Almost Naked Animals! It has a huge year for Sean, and he's excited for more to come.Sean Cullen is regularly broadcast on TVs across the globe. In live action, Sean is a series regular and star panelist on Match Game (The Comedy Network), and has guest starred or appeared in Spun Out (CTV), Murdoch Mysteries, What Would Sal Do (Super Channel), The Stanley Dynamic, Odd Squad (TVO Kids), and was featured on the Just For Laughs: All Access (The Comedy Network), The Halifax Comedy Festival (CBC), and the Winnipeg Comedy Festival ( CBC) television specials.In animation, Sean's leant his voice and contributed stories to the children's animated series Rocket Monkeys as Gus (Teletoon) and to Almost Naked Animals playing Narwhal and Piggy (YTV/Cartoon Network/CITV UK) - the series was selected as one of People Magazine's top children's shows and earned him a Gemini-nomination for Best Writing in a Children's or Youth Program or Series. Sean also regularly voices Shelbourne, Tim, and Old Rick in Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs, Inspector Gadget (Teletoon), Knuckleheads (CBC/Teletoon), and Winston Steinburger (Teletoon), among others.• ACTRA Award Nomination (2019) Outstanding Performance – Voice (Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs) •• ACTRA Award WINNER (2011) Outstanding Performance – Voice (Jimmy Two-Shoes) ••• Canadian Screen Award WINNER (2014) – Best Performance in an Animated Program (Almost Naked Animals) •••• Gemini Award for Performance in a Variety Series - Just for Laughs Episode 1 - Canadian Comedy Award winner for Best Male Performance

Seán Cullen

Shishir 'S' Pande (Bachelor of Engineering, McMaster University, 2014) is the CEO of EXAR Studios and has a background in business strategy, marketing, and engineering. He has a track record of innovation and community focus proven by his past entrepreneurial successes and achievement of the London Inc. Top 20 Under 40 Award in 2020.EXAR Studios is a digital creative tech company whose mission is to develop extended reality (XR) technology that allows destinations all over the world to bring engaging cultural content to users on location.&nbsp;We deepen the experience of exploring the world by providing arts, history, and culture experiences to people who travel globally or locally. We work with local experts to create the most culturally authentic content we can while providing entertaining storytelling to the world.

Shishir 'S' Pande

Chill out after the craziest comedy show in TAAFI's own Spatial Chat. Our multi-room hangout is way better and funner than a musty old zoom call. Mingle, mix, and chat with fellow attendees in a casual, cartoony virtual space.This after hours event will be hosted in part by Stephanie Yelovich, and we might continue the improv fun right here with Christian, Sean, Sunday and Chris... unless they hated it. Then we're alone with our sadness as usual. This is all happening in <a href="https://spatial.chat/s/TAAFI" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">TAAFI's Spatial Chat</a>. Click the link to join. Have your mic and camera working to mix, mingle and avoid covid. <a href="https://spatial.chat/s/TAAFI" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://spatial.chat/s/TAAFI</a>

Chill out after the craziest comedy show in TAAFI's own Spatial Chat. Our multi-room hangout is way better and funner than a musty old zoom call. Mingle, mix, and chat with fellow attendees in a casual, cartoony virtual space.This after hours event will be hosted in part by Stephanie Yelovich, and we might continue the improv fun right here with Christian, Sean, Sunday and Chris... unless they hated it. Then we're alone with our sadness as usual.This is all happening in <a href="https://spatial.chat/s/TAAFI" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">TAAFI's Spatial Chat</a>. Click the link to join. Have your mic and camera working to mix, mingle and avoid covid. <a href="https://spatial.chat/s/TAAFI" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://spatial.chat/s/TAAFI</a>

Virtual Comedy Club Mixer

Stephanie Yelovich is a dynamic and multi-faceted perfomer having begun her career in theatre and opera and is currently making a natural transition into the world of voice, film and tv.Since the age of 8 she has performed in theatres and opera houses all over Canada and Europe but now spends most of her time in front of the camera, experimenting with sounds in her studio as well as in the booth!With a special passion for singing, sound, music and voice work, Stephanie is in the process of creating and producing an album of experimental vocal music. She also teaches voice work and helps her clients and students to find and express their true voice and find vocal freedom. Stephanie is the co-owner of The Infinity Forge in Hamilton, ON: a creative media arts and recording studio for everyone.Stephanie acted in and co-produced the short film Beat Nick, directed and shot by Michael Penny, that won 1st place in the 2019 Hamilton Film Festival Competition and also voiced the epic boss-lady Trixie Clementine in The Adventures of the Starship Coconut Podcast (Frequency Podcasts). She also had the privilege of lending her voice to two Seneca College Final Animation projects-Half of the Way and Long After Us (2021).&nbsp;From the ages of 8-18, Stephanie trained in acting, dance, and voice at the Theatre Aquarius Performing Arts Programme and later became an instructor there for over 10 years. She then continued on to teach for Zamprogna Arts and now teaches The Art of the Self Tape and voice work regularly in her studio and on zoom. Stephanie is classically trained in voice and holds a BMus in Voice Performance and an Opera Diploma from Wilfrid Laurier University.With many concepts and projects on the horizon, and with the expansion of the studio, she is looking forward to sharing her natural gifts and talents with the rest of the world.