Canadian Film Centre Announces Inaugural Buffer Festival Industry Day

The Canadian Film Centre (CFC) is pleased to announce a roster of partners for the first-ever Buffer Festival Industry Day. Taking place on Thursday, October 16, 2014 at the Hyatt Regency Toronto, Buffer Festival Industry Day will bring together professionals looking to optimize YouTube as a content and development platform and a marketing and distribution channel. This one-day conference provides a unique opportunity to network with celebrity YouTube creators, Multi-Channel Networks (MCNs), advertisers, agencies and digital entertainment industry executives.

The CFC and title partner YouTube will present a number of informative sessions, from leveraging backend analytics to ensuring brand success on YouTube. Buffer Festival Industry Day Gold partners include shift2, an innovative agency that creates, manages and markets digital content targeting Generation C, and Blue Ant Media, a privately-held media company that creates and distributes content internationally in categories such as lifestyle, travel and music. shift2 will showcase the new Vampire series, Carmilla, and host Industry Day’s official closing reception.

Other industry partners include the CMPA, TWG, Stream Market, What’s Trending and a roster of supporting partners, including: Now Magazine, Stream Daily, IT Business, Cassie Stewart, Hackernest, IPF, InsideOut, Luminato Festival, Interactive Ontario, Liaison of Independent Filmmakers of Toronto, ACCT, TIFF, BlogTo, She Does The City and Tubefilter.

Produced by the CFC Media Lab in partnership with Buffer Festival, the industry day will precede three days of screenings and meetings. Presenters include top YouTube creators including Harley Morenstein of Epic Meal Time and Mitchell Moffit of ASAPScience, plus influential industry speakers Ezra Cooperstein, Chief Operating Officer, Fullscreen, Kendall Rhodes, Talent Manager & Producer, Digital Production Division, Untitled Entertainment and Ali Adab, Vice President of Content and Partnerships, BroadbandTV.

For more information about Buffer Festival Industry Day, please visit http://www.cfccreates.com/programs/63-buffer-festival-industry-day. Ticket entry is $199, and to purchase tickets, click here.

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