Join us for virtual TAAFI Awards! Who's going to win Best Student Film? Best Canadian Film? Best International, Audience Choice, or Grand Prix? Well, we don't know yet, but we will by then!!

And as we draw the curtains on what will be the weirdest socially distant festival to date, we pause to remember former TAAFI Executive Director John Rooney with a tribute video by some of his industry friends and peers. If you want to contribute to the John Rooney Creator Fund, please do so HERE. Special thanks to our partners, The Youth Media Alliance. - and YES you can get a tax credit!

Finally, we celebrate our Kaj Pindal - Animated Person of the Year 2021!

Director, Producer and Animator Gerald Potterton!

Meet our hero, the 90 year old Potterton, Zoomin' in from just outside Montreal.

Then stay tooned after for the Gerald Potterton Retrospective! (All included together in this mega-bundle) a walk and talk down animation history lane with Gerald on his epic career from the NFB, to directing Buster Keaton, and has collaborated with such legends as Richard Williams, Jim Henson, Ivan Reitman, and even Ringo Starr.

PART #1: EARLY DAYS AT THE NFB - 20:00 TOTAL

• Fish Spoilage Control - 08:00
• It’s a Crime - 12:00

PART #2: NFB ALL-STARS AND OSCAR NOMINATIONS - 22:30 TOTAL

• Hors-d’oeuvre - 07:30
• Christmas Cracker - 09:15
• My Financial Career - 06:45

PART #3: WORKING WITH BUSTER KEATON - 08:00 TOTAL

• Buster Keaton Footage - 8:00

PART #4: POTTERTON PRODUCTIONS - 26:00 TOTAL

• Pinter People - 16:00
• Clips from Tiki Tiki - 10:00