Best for Experienced

If you have 10+ years of experience, we will keep you connected to your peers, engaged with emerging creators, and offer keep you motivated to excel in your leadership role.

Special Event: 2025 WIFT+ Toronto Call for Board Members

We are looking for dedicated, innovative, and courageous individuals to join our Board of Directors.

Submissions Open:
February 4, 2025

Submissions Close:
March 14, 2025

Special Event: WIFT+ Showcase 2025 – Call for Submissions & Jury

Our annual WIFT+ Toronto Showcase Highlights the creativity, talent, and diversity of our community.

Jury and Submission Deadline:
January 31, 2025

Professional Development : Executive Leadership in Media Certificate Program

The C-suite awaits you! The Executive Leadership in Media Certificate (previously our Media Leadership Program) is a proven and successful professional development intensive designed to enhance your strategic leadership skills. This program is recommended for screen-based professionals with a minimum of ten years of management or entrepreneurial experience in the media industry, with a desire to develop their leadership skills. The Executive Leadership in Media Certificate offers a unique immersive learning experience that combines business school teaching from Schulich MBA faculty with best practices from high-level industry executives. Schulich School of Business is consistently ranked as one of the top business schools in the world.

Opening for Applications in February 2025

Professional Development : Pitch Perfect (Advanced)

Your project is ready to pitch? Fine-tune your pitch by fine-tuning your characters, storyline and more in this 2-day program. Hit ALL the right notes with this intensive pitching workshop. Identify the key components that contribute to a good pitch: the introduction, cut line, logline, synopsis, the heart, the package of pluses, all the way to the close. In this thorough, in-depth course, you will learn: how to research an audience before the meeting, improve story telling skills, clarity, structure, economy, visuals, review the essentials required for a pitch one sheet PLUS so much more, including an individual, one-on-one consultation!

Opening for Registration Soon.

Professional Development : Intro to Entertainment Law

A 3-day workshop designed to demystify legal issues in media content production. Learn your rights, protect your IP, negotiate the best deal for YOU! Entertainment Law is multi-faceted and unusual in that it overlaps with so many other legal areas: intellectual property law, employment law, contract law, tax law, insurance law, and sometimes international law. This three-day course is designed to provide an introduction/overview of key legal considerations - Contracts and Negotiations, Intellectual Property and Regulations and Policies - in the screen-based media industry.

Deadline for Registration:
February 14, 2025

Deadline for Scholarships:
February 2, 2025

Professional Development : Media Business Essentials Program

Our Media Business Essentials (MBE) program is a career-enhancing learning experience for emerging media professionals who want to deepen their knowledge of the business of film, television, and interactive media production. Modules focus on financing and business affairs, production management, production accounting and tax credits, and marketing and distribution. Courses are taught by industry professionals who are currently active and working in the sector. This program is recommended for recent graduates and/or emerging professionals looking for applied learning.

Opening For Registration in Fall 2025.