FESTIVAL JURY
Each year, Toronto Youth Shorts bring to the festival established voices in the film, media, and entertainment industry to determine the slate of annual festival awards.
Each year, Toronto Youth Shorts bring to the festival established voices in the film, media, and entertainment industry to determine the slate of annual festival awards.
Wendy Hallam Martin a Primetime Emmy Award-winning Picture Editor whose credits include The Handsmaid's Tale, The Tudors, Saving Hope, and Rookie Blue. She loves this medium because it is challenging, high quality, fast-paced, and different every day. For the last few years, Wendy has been lucky to work with the incredible team at Take5 Productions.
Drew Ng studied at the internationally acclaimed Sheridan College in the early 1990’s and is a 20+ year veteran as a Storyboard Artist and Supervisor on dozens of projects. Some of the productions he was involved with include Cube Zero, Jonah Hex and Dragons – Race to the Edge. After many years on the front lines, Ng is now using his story experience to institute the Education, Recruitment and Training department to support the many productions at House of Cool.
Robin Riad is an experimental filmmaker, film programmer, and visual artist. Robin works with analogue mediums, and enjoys exploring the materiality of film in her work. She has screened in countries such as the United States, Spain, Italy, Germany, India and more. When not making films, Robin spends her time teaching workshops, making potions in the darkroom, and volunteering at local arts organizations. Robin will never say no to a Coke Zero or Kinder Bueno if offered.