Match Club
Match Club is a meeting space and lounge, the hub for all Sales & Industry and Guest Relations Office delegates, and the nexus for the international and Canadian film industries. International consultants are available onsite to help set up meetings and offer advice. Consultants are experts from the fields of world sales, festivals and production.
Date: Thursday, September 10, 2009 through to Thursday, September 17, 2009
Time: Daily from 9:00am to 5:00pm
Location: 5th Elementt Restaurant (1033 Bay Street, just north of the Sutton Place Hotel)
*Match Club is open to all Sales & Industry pass holders as well as all Guest Relations pass holders.
2009 Match Club Consultants:
Nancy Collet
Nancy Collet has been working in the film industry for over eighteen years. In 2007, she founded Cinema Collet, which offers a variety of services to film festivals, filmmakers and other arts organizations. Current clients include TIFF, Netflix, The Middle East International Film Festival, The Malibu Celebration of Film, and Heartland Truly Moving Pictures. Most recently, Collet worked at the American Film Institute, where she was promoted to director of programming in 2000 and has produced seven AFI FEST editions in this capacity. Previously, Nancy worked for Tom Hanks at Clavius Base Films, where she was involved in various elements of production on the HBO series From the Earth to the Moon.
Peter Belsito
Strategic Planner, sydneysbuzz.blogspot.com
Peter Belsito grew up in New York City and graduated from the Masters film program at UCLA as a cinematographer. He founded: LA Newsreel, a radical anti war filmmaking, distribution collective; the Independent Feature Project (IFP) in New York City in 1981; he opened the IFP office in Los Angeles (now FIND) and founded the Chicano Cinema Coalition. He produced the documentary Valley of Tears for festivals and distributor Seven Arts. With Sydney Levine he founded FILM FINDERS in 1988 and sold it to IMDb/Amazon.com in Spring 2009.
Matt Toner
President, Zeros 2 Heroes Media
Matt Toner began work in the new media industry (when it actually was new) as a co-founder of CanApple New Media, a founding executive of We Media Inc., and Managing Director of Oven Digital (Canada). Following the dot-crash, Matt worked on a series of videogames for Electronic Arts, before leading convergent television projects for Making the Cut 2 and the award-winning Bodog TV. Since founding Zeros 2 Heroes, Matt has worked to bring digital media solutions to the film and television industry through engagements with the National Screen Institute, Telefilm Canada, ContentFilm, SEVEN24 Films, Rainmaker Entertainment, CBC Television and others.
Jessica Leigh Clark-Bojin
Creative Director, Zeros 2 Heroes Media
Since the inception of Zeros 2 Heroes, Jessica has been its brand strategist and resident “fan expert”: these twin passions have allowed her to lead award-winning digital media campaigns such as Comix 101, ReBoot ReLaunched, Manga Memoirs and Canada: Comic Creation Nation. When it comes to digital extensions for entertainment properties, Jessica works with clients to “de-jargonify” concepts like crowdsourcing, twittering, viral marketing, vlogging and linkbaiting. Perhaps because of this knack, Jessica has become a speaker much sought-after by film, television and animation producers, giving presentations in Vancouver, Winnipeg, and Toronto.
