<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>Author of Ink and Paint's Mindy Johnson, the woman who literally wrote the book on the contributions of women in Animation, is coming IN-PERSON to Toronto to open our conference! A powerful speaker and visionary, Mindy's talk is one you can't miss!</p>

Opening Keynote: Mindy Johnson

<p><span style="color: rgb(33, 33, 33)">Award-winning author, historian, filmmaker, educator, musician and more, Mindy Johnson’s creative accomplishments reflect the diversity of her talents and experience. A leading expert on women’s roles in animation and film history, Mindy writes and speaks on early cinema, animation, women’s history, and creativity.</span></p><p></p><p></p><p><span style="color: rgb(33, 33, 33)">A recipient of the prestigious ASIFA-Hollywood June Foray "Annie" Award, given to individuals who've made a significant and benevolent or charitable impact on the art and industry of animation. Mindy's honors also include the Academy Film Scholar Award from the Academy of Motion Picture Arts &amp; Sciences/Oscars.org, and the ASIFA–Hollywood AEF Grant, for continued research and writing on the contributions of the earliest women within our collective animated past. With several forthcoming volumes underway, Mindy's groundbreaking discoveries continue to cast light on the invisible narrative of women’s presence within the first century of the motion picture industry. Her latest landmark breakthrough is the discovery of Bessie Mae Kelley and her surviving films believed to be the earliest surviving hand-drawn animation, animated and directed by a woman, forever busting the myth of women no longer present at the dawn of the animation industry.</span></p>

Mindy Johnson

<p><span>Jeremy is a veteran of the animation industry. Over the past 30 years, he’s helped countless movies, television shows, and video games as an animator, animation director, art director, production manager, and strategist. Recently, Jeremy has launched Trickfilm, a platform to help independent animators distribute and monetize their work by translating the direct-to-consumer virtual goods model from video games to animation.</span></p>

Jeremy McCarron

The Ins and Outs of Real-Time Tech With Trickfilm

<p><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0)">Do you have an idea for an animated TV show, but you don’t know where to start? Then you'll definitely want to check out two-time Big Pitch winner Terry Ibele's "How to Create a TV Show Pitch Bible from Scratch (+ how to pitch it!)" workshop at this year's TAAFI Industry Conference! In this workshop, Terry will help guide aspiring pitchers and provide the framework to create a winning pitch bible from scratch! Over the course of two-hours, you'll learn;</span></p><p><br></p><p><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0)">- All the assets needed to create a complete pitch bible</span></p><p><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0)">- How to make connections with development executives at production studios and broadcasters</span></p><p><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0)">- The best way to deliver your pitch with confidence</span></p><p><br></p><p><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0)">Be sure to get to the Toronto Reference Library early, because this workshop starts at 10:30am! Don't miss out!</span></p><p><br></p>

TAIS! Workshop - How To Pitch

<p><span>Terry Ibele is an award-winning stop motion and 2D animator from Toronto. He is a two-time winner of TAAFI's The Big Pitch and a winner of OIAF's Pitch This competition. His credits include work for TV shows and video games. In his spare time he runs the Animation Industry Podcast, a weekly show interviewing today's animation pros.<br></span></p>

TAAFI News

Toronto Animation Film Festival

Toronto Animation Industry Conference

Toronto Animation / VFX Job Fair

TAIS! Workshop - How To Pitch

Terry Ibele, Animator