<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

Tracey is honoured to executive produce the ACE program with Women in Animation.&nbsp;She is an award-winning producer with 20 years of experience, producing over 120 hours of television in both live action &amp; animated film, television and digital media.&nbsp;She is currently COO &amp; head of production for Imagine Create Media, and was formerly the head of business affairs, associate vice president of production of Bardel Entertainment.&nbsp;Through her own company, Urban Safari Entertainment, she has just finished development on the animated feature, A Christmas Crisis, with Hollywood Suite, which she also wrote, and has produced The Adventures of Little Jake &amp; Many Skies for APTN, the award-winning Kids’ Cookhouse, and the web series PARKED.&nbsp;&nbsp;

Tracey is honoured to executive produce the ACE program with Women in Animation.&nbsp;She is an award-winning producer with 20 years of experience, producing over 120 hours of television in both live action &amp; animated film, television and digital media.&nbsp;She is currently COO &amp; head of production for Imagine Create Media, and was formerly the head of business affairs, associate vice president of production of Bardel Entertainment.&nbsp;Through her own company, Urban Safari Entertainment, she has just finished development on the animated feature, A Christmas Crisis, with Hollywood Suite, which she also wrote, and has produced The Adventures of Little Jake &amp; Many Skies for APTN, the award-winning Kids’ Cookhouse, and the web series PARKED.&nbsp;&nbsp;

Tracey Mack

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

It's the opening night of TAAFI's Industry Conference and what better way to kick things off than with a virtual reception! Dust off your tux, pantsuit or ballgown and strut your stuff on the red carpet for a selfie screen grab.Mix and mingle with fellow attendees, have a drink from your fridge, and watch TAAFI Programming Ace Thalia Lemon draw some emoji's live for our Discord Server. It will be a weird kind of awesome. See you there for a special hour of power before things kick off with Lindsey Olivares. <a href="https://spatial.chat/s/TAAFI" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Click this LINK to join the Reception in Spatial Chat.</a> You'll need to upload a photo of yourself, and use your camera and mic. <a href="https://spatial.chat/s/TAAFI" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://spatial.chat/s/TAAFI</a>At 6pm we'll have a cheers to kick things off right with everyone in the space. So have your bubbly (a real one) handy. 🍻🥂Also if you just want to watch, check out our news page at 5:30pm to just livestream it. <a href="https://taafi.com/news" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://taafi.com/news</a>

Opening Night Reception

Barnabas Wornoff

New to the behind the scenes of TAAFI, Thalia is a 10 year industry veteran with a passionate enthusiasm for all things cartoon, and a resume that includes the Willoughby's, Addams Family 2, My Little Pony the Movie, and various TV productions.When this west coast transplant isn't storyboarding, you can find her live-streaming on Twitch <a href="https://www.twitch.tv/drawsforfun" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">(DrawsforFun)</a>, or trying to fix her terrible posture.

Thalia Lemon

It's opening night of TAAFI Industry, and what better way to rub elbows with fellow attendees than by beating the pants off them in one of five (5) different games rooms in TAAFI's own boppin' Discord Server. Join Gamesmaster Quinn and your fellow TAAFI attendees for an evening of gaming fun. Classic games from Pictionary to animation based Trivia. We'll be running Jackbox, get ready for something Drawful, a broken-telephone of animation called Gartic Phone, or join the taboo room for a round of Cards Against Humanity. 😡There's no wrong choice, except not coming. That's clearly the wrong choice. See ya after the amazing WIA Panel in the <a href="https://discord.com/invite/f3kaVvNg6j" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">🎲TAAFI Discord.</a>

Opening Night Networking: Games Night! 

Joel and Spencer met during an epic hot-dog eating competition in Ottawa. After finishing in a tie, they developed a mutual respect for one another and decided to join forces.When these two weenie boys aren't on the clock, working on hit cartoons, you can find them kicking back with their many, many friends, sipping and sketching. Come join the fun on Thursday night in the <a href="https://discord.com/invite/f3kaVvNg6j" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">TAAFI Discord Server</a>, as Joel and Spencer invite you to be friends with them and drink and draw the night away!