Jessica Toca is a Montreal-based illustrator and animator with a BFA in Film Animation from Concordia University. Her work is rooted in the quiet beauty of everyday life, exploring her relationship with the world through warm, whimsical, and nostalgic imagery grounded in childlike wonder. Driven by a fascination with light and all things that sparkle, her graduating film, (in)significant, translates her interest in finding beauty in the mundane, earning her the Don Arioli Award at the 2026 Mel Hoppenheim School of Cinema Awards.