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| Details | Price | Qty |
|---|---|---|
| All 3 Events | $60.00 (CAD) | Expired |
| Corey Mandell and Charles Tatham | $25.00 (CAD) | Expired |
| The Showrunners of Degrassi | $25.00 (CAD) | Expired |
| MOWs and Procedurals | $25.00 (CAD) | Expired |
Corey Mandell and Chuck Tatham
Date: February 24, 2025
Time: 7:00pm
Venue: TIFF Lightbox
Corey Mandell, famed UCLA Screenwriting Instructor, award winning screenwriter and playwright and Toronto Screenwriting Conference favourite returns to the TSC to deliver an essential master class on writing scenes that grab the reader’s attention and keep them reading.
Corey Mandell
Corey Mandell is an award-winning playwright and screenwriter who has written projects for Ridley Scott, Harrison Ford, Julia Roberts, Matt Damon, Ben Affleck, John Travolta, Warner Brothers, Universal, 20th Century Fox, Fox 2000, Fox Family, Working Title, Paramount, Live Planet, Beacon Films, Touchstone, Trilogy, Radiant, Kopelson Entertainment and Walt Disney Pictures.
Corey is also a distinguished instructor at UCLA, where he earned his MFA. He teaches workshops in LA, and across the world. His students have sold scripts to Warner Brothers, Paramount, HBO, Netflix, FX, Amazon, Disney, Universal, MGM, Peacock, Showtime, NBC, ABC, MTV, Sony, Nickelodeon, A24, Hulu and Apple TV.
Others have gotten staffed on such shows as Stranger Things, Ted Lasso, Wandavision, Mr. Robot, Station Eleven, This is Us, Bojack-Horseman, The Leftovers, Yellowstone, Marvel’s Agents of Shield, Orange is the New Black, Selena, The Walking Dead, You’re the Worst, Community, Schitt’s Creek, Catastrophe and Succession.
Chuck Tatham
Showrunners of Degrassi
Date: March 24, 2025
Time: 7:00pm
Venue: TIFF Lightbox
Lynda Schuyler and Stephen Stohn built one of the preeminent showrunner training habitats in Canada with Degrassi. Two of the top showrunners on the series, Sarah Glinski and Michael Grassi discuss what they learned working on the show and how those lessons have helped shape their careers.
Sarah Glinski
Executive Producer/Showrunner, HOLLY HOBBIE, DEGRASSI: NEXT CLASS
Sarah Glinski is an Emmy-nominated TV writer/producer currently serving as Executive Producer and Showrunner on the Hulu/DHX/Universal Kids series HOLLY HOBBIE. Previously, she ran DEGRASSI for Netflix/DHX. Over the last decade, Sarah’s produced over 200 episodes of television and 2 MOWs. She has also staffed on LITTLE MOSQUE ON THE PRAIRIE, and BILLABLE HOURS.
Sarah’s been nominated for three Emmys, won three Canadian Screen Awards and was named one of Hollywood Reporter’s Next Generation. When Sarah’s not brainstorming ways to get characters in trouble, she’s keeping her two young daughters out of it.
Michael Grassi
In addition to his work on Lost Girl, Grassi also spent time in the writing room on Schitt’s Creek, and executive producing Riverdale and Pretty Little Liars.
Vera Santamaria
Vera Santamaria is an award-winning screenwriter whose credits span some of the most ground-breaking shows in television including NBC’s Community, Little Mosque on the Prairie, and Degrassi.
Vera began her career upon graduation, working her way up from writer’s assistant to staff writer before co-creating and executive producing the highly acclaimed How To Be Indie for YTV in 2009. Loosely based on her childhood in Rexdale, a suburb of Toronto. How To Be Indie also made history as the first Canadian television series centered around a South Asian family.
Vera moved to Los Angeles in 2010 and immediately landed on Outsourced, Up All Night and Community, all on NBC. A Supervising Producer role on USA Network’s cult-hit Playing House followed. Vera lives in Los Angeles where she’s currently in the writer’s room of BoJack Horseman, a subversive animated comedy on Netflix.
MOWs and Procedurals
Date: April 14, 2025
Time: 7:00pm
Venue: TIFF Lightbox
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