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The Jana Abrams Talent Agency (JATA) was founded by former actress and now Agent and Entrepreneur Jana Abrams. After studying at The Young People’s Theatre, Equity Showcase and York University, Jana Abrams graduated from the George Brown Theatre School in 1994 and has worked in the entertainment industry ever since. In 2003 after several years of assisting talent agents, Jana Abrams formed the Jana Abrams Talent Agency in conjunction with Creative Drive Artists Talent Agency. JATA was an immediate success and subsequently Jana Abrams was prompted to go solo in 2005. In 2007 JATA expanded once again to include a full service children’s division focusing on ages new born to 16 years old as seasoned children’s talent agent Lina Scuralli joins the growing team. Our commitment to success comes from our desire to provide the highest level of service to both our Actors and to the Casting Community.

J.C. has been actively working in the Entertainment Industry as an Agent for 10 years. Just Canadian Talent has offices in Mississauga and soon to be in Calgary. We represent Actors, and Print Models from aspiring and veteran artists for work in Film, Television, Corporate Videos, Print, Commercials and Promos.

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Premier Artists’ Management is a proud member of the Talent and Managers Association of Canada. Premier is one of the top innovative agencies in Canada, representing talent from all performing categories: Film, Television, Theatre, Musical Theatre and Commercials Worldwide. Premier is known in the industry as a exciting visionary agency creating new footprints by taking the personal approach in the development of its clients.

In an ever shifting climate, Premier’s mandate is to provide our clients with the tools needed to insure their place on the cutting edge of the industry.

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VOX TALENT Inc is an exclusively non-union voice-over talent agency. Since 1996, VOX TALENT has earned a reputation for reliability, integrity, value, and flexibility providing advertising agencies, independent producers and corporate marketing departments with professional and cost-effective non-union talent.

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SPECIAL GUEST - Steven Mann will be our Special Guest Adjudicator in the Commercial Workshop on Day 1
My main objective when prepping a job is to bring in the best performers, PERIOD. Sure, I follow the job specs and try my best to give the clients what they are looking for visually. However if I were to only select people that ‘look’ like the character reference or match the casting specs exactly, the job would never get done. The choices would be extremely limited. The difficult part of my job is to select 25 people from a list of 250 for any given role. Bottom line if you guys look good, I look good. Remember, I need you guys as much as you need me.

Curtis Wehrfritz is a filmmaker and has not finished his degree at McMaster University. He completed 4 years at the Ontario College of Art but the best they could do is declare that he is an associate of the art college.

Four years ago his feature film “Four Days” premiered at the Toronto Film Festival and was distributed internationally.

His work has been widely seen through Music videos with such artists as Leonard Cohen. Music video work has garnished awards including Best Director and a Juno award.

His photography has been exhibited internationally including the Contact Photography Exhibit and the London Photographic Awards. Recently his work has begun to explore the use of the Daguerreotype as a story telling medium.

His commercial work has spanned 10 years and has included international work including clients such as Nike, Coke and Air Canada. He recently completed the short film Jpod co-directed with Lisa Manne and his commercial work can be seen at untitledfilms.ca

Harvey has been a director, writer, and producer of documentary, drama and docu-drama for more than 25 years. He holds dual Canadian and Irish citizenship and is able to travel and work on both a Canadian and an EU passport.

Harvey began his film and television career in Vancouver, Canada where he co-founded two production companies - Hy Perspectives Media Group and Siren Films - that made independent films about social issues including legislative discrimination against Native Indian women, healing alcohol and drug abuse in Native Indian communities, remarkable breakthroughs in the lives of quadriplegics and social issues facing new immigrants.

His production of the feature docudrama CLOSE TO HOME, about the continuum of sexual abuse, runaways and juvenile prostitution, became a nationally acclaimed Movie Of The Week.

Harvey has directed nominated and award-winning documentary and docudrama features and series, episodic drama and family comedy series for National Geographic, History, Discovery, CBC, CTV, A&E, PBS, BBC, W, ITV, Vision, TLC, Family Channel, Noggin, Disney, Nickelodeon, Discovery Health, Fox Kids, YTV, Canal Plus, Canal J, ZDF, France 3, and ABC Australia.

Shoots have taken Harvey across Canada, into the Arctic and around the world to Brazil, Thailand, Okinawa, South Africa, Japan, India, France, England, United States, Holland, Germany, Ireland, Belgium, Turkey, Cuba, Hong Kong, and Argentina.

After the release of his feature film, THE BURNING SEASON, which he wrote, directed and filmed in Canada and India, Harvey moved to Toronto, Canada in 1993