Taafi Report
July6-8 was the first TAAFI festival. TAAFI stands for Toronto Animation and Arts Festival International. I suspect that the acronym was chosen before the full title was worked out, but that's okay. TAAFI is catchy. Ben McAvoy and Barnabas Wornoff are the two guys who made it all happen. They spent the better part of a year pulling everything together and I have to say it was a successful festival, especially for a first-time event. The TIFF Bell Lightbox, located in downtown Toronto and easily accessible, was a good venue, keeping all the events under a single roof. The fest was a good mix of screenings, workshops and presentations and there was more happening than any individual could take in. Some of the events included a screening of Rock and Rule with a reunion of some of the crew, the North American premiere of Ronal the Barbarian , a northern European 3D cgi feature that parodied sword and sorcery movies, workshops by Charlie Bonifacio on posing, Peter Emslie on cari