Michael Mabbott and Lucah Rosenberg-Lee’s feature doc Any Other Way: The Jackie Shane Story, a Banger Films/National Film Board of Canada (NFB) co-production, has been selected to screen at the 2025 Festival international de programmes audiovisuels documentaires de Biarritz (FIPADOC) in France. The film will screen in competition in the musical documentary section of the festival, which takes place from January 24 to February 1, 2025.
Three National Film Board of Canada (NFB) co-productions have been named to Canada’s Top Ten—a list of the country’s finest feature-length and short films in 2024, as chosen by the Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF).
Two legendary figures in National Film Board of Canada animation, composer and sound designer Normand Roger and animator and producer Eunice Macaulay, will be honoured by ASIFA-Hollywood with its Winsor McCay Award for career achievement, to be presented at the 52nd Annie Awards on Saturday, February 8, 2025.
Free films, first-come, first-wowed! After the Holidays, continue your family get-togethers or round up some friends and come see recent gems from the NFB collection on the big screen in Montreal. Starting Thursday, January 9, we’re presenting five free public screenings at the NFB’s Alanis Obomsawin Theatre in the heart of the Quartier des Spectacles.
Newfoundland director Justin Simms tries to answer this vital question throughout his National Film Board of Canada (NFB) feature documentary Sons, which premieres January 20 on nfb.ca and the NFB’s streaming platform for smart TVs.
A Man Imagined, Brian M. Cassidy and Melanie Shatzky’s “documentary fable” about the raw reality of a man living on the fringes, makes its Montreal premiere in the festival’s opening program.
Torill Kove’s Mikrofilm/National Film Board of Canada co-production
Maybe Elephants shortlisted for Academy Award for Animated Short Film
Acclaimed short advances to next round of voting for the 97th Oscars
Amanda Strong’s Spotted Fawn Productions/National Film Board of Canada (NFB) stop-motion animated short Inkwo for When the Starving Return will continue its festival run in the new year in the Short Film Program of the Sundance Film Festival.
The National Film Board of Canada (NFB) is pleased to announce that two of its productions have won an award at the 27th Montreal International Documentary Festival (RIDM). This year’s closing film, Ninan Auassat: Nous, les enfants (Ninan Auassat: We, the Children, NFB), a celebration of the power and vitality of Indigenous youth by Abenaki filmmaker Kim O’Bomsawin, won the Magnus Isacsson Award. Anishinaabe filmmaker Lisa Wilfred Buck (Door Number 3 Productions/NFB), which follows the extraordinary life of a Cree Elder, received the Women Inmates’ Jury Award.
Starting November 29, 13 groundbreaking Norman McLaren compositions have been brought together for the first time in Rythmetic: The Compositions of Norman McLaren, released by Phantom Limb (UK/EU) and We Are Busy Bodies (US/Canada/world), in collaboration with the National Film Board of Canada (NFB).
Acclaimed documentary portraits of two trailblazing figures, co-produced by the National Film Board of Canada (NFB), will be streaming on Crave starting Monday, December 2, and Monday, December 9.
Thao Lam and Kjell Boersma’s multi-award-winning National Film Board of Canada (NFB) animated short Boat People is being featured as a Staff Pick on Vimeo, starting November 19.
The National Film Board of Canada (NFB) is pleased to remind audiences about upcoming screenings of the feature film Wilfred Buck (Door Number 3 Productions/NFB), by Anishinaabe filmmaker Lisa Jackson, at the 27th Montreal International Documentary Festival (RIDM), taking place November 20 to December 1, 2024.
Oscar-winning animator Torill Kove was honoured in Vancouver by SPARK ANIMATION, Western Canada’s largest celebration of animation, presented by the Spark Computer Graphics Society.
Showcasing Francophone artists and their work strengthens the vitality of Canada’s official language minority communities. More than ever, it is crucial to be collaborative and inclusive in increasing the visibility and outreach of minority artists, arts and culture organizations and industries.