<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>Joe Cappa is an director &amp; animator currently residing in Portland, Oregon. His animated short 'Ghost Dogs' was a 2021 Sundance selection and won the Satoshi Kon Award at Fantasia. Cappa has gone on to make original content for Bento Box, Adult Swim, and Meow Wolf using 2D animation, stop motion, and paper mache costumes.  You can also check out his short animated videos on instagram @joecappa. </p>

Joe Cappa

<p>Working in the industry since 2003, Jessica had her start in animation at Spumco working on The New Ren and Stimpy. From there she ventured to the East Coast and worked with Collideascope and Copernicus on various projects, from music videos to television series. Soon after she created her own short film entitled "I Like Pandas" This earned Jessica the "Frederator Flash Film of the Year Award". Fuel Industries, an adver-gaming agency, hired Jess in 2005. She art directed many projects there and worked with clients such as Kraft Foods, Johnson&amp;Johnson, and McDonald's, creating beautiful immersive online gaming. The popularity of her short film earned her notice from WB. She was approached by them to re-design the Looney Tunes, and from there went on to direct the "Merrie Melodies" part of the show. She also re-imagined Bugs and the gang again for the Wabbit series, which evolved into "The New Looney Tunes Show". Jessica went on to work on many of the WB legacy properties. One DC Nation Short, featuring Shazam, entitled "WISDOM" that she produced was nominated for an Emmy. She also produced the series Bunnicula for Cartoon Network International. Today Nickelodeon is her new home and she is currently the Supervising Director on Loud House.</p>

Jessica Borutski

<p>From Startup to Success — Stories from Studio Founders</p><p>For many of us, starting a studio and ‘hanging our own shingle’ is the ultimate dream. Becoming your own boss, hiring your friends and co-workers, and striking out on your own. It’s all very exciting, but where do you start? How do you build not just the studio itself, but the client base? How much does it cost and what are the pitfalls?</p><p>Join a panel of studio founders as we engage in a lively discussion of starting your own studio — from start-up to success — as we explore the pathways and pitfalls of building a studio, along with the new opportunities or challenges that face budding studio entrepreneurs.</p>

Ben McEvoy

Starting a Studio: Presented by CASO

Darren Cranford

Ella Cooper

Jonathan Corbiere

Ricardo Curtis

Caso

<p>Jonathan Corbiere is CEO of Thought Café, an award-winning motion graphic studio that promotes social justice, self-education and critical awareness. Thought Café creates animated shorts that break down issues, visualize important concepts, and explain and deliver messages for NGOs, other not-for-profits and charities, politicians, great thinkers, writers, and anyone else who has an important message or concept to share with the world. We believe that motion graphics are the perfect medium through which to educate the world online, inspire conversation around current issues, and raise critical awareness.</p><p>Jonathan is an experienced entrepreneur working in film, gaming, and Web3 technologies and is also launching the studio Degenerative Labs.</p>