Habibata Ouarme and Jim Donovan’s KOROMOUSSO: Big Sister (NFB) launching at the Human Rights Watch Film Festival. World premiere in Toronto and international premiere in London.

The feature-length documentary KOROMOUSSO: Big Sister, co-directed by Habibata Ouarme and Jim Donovan and produced by the NFB, will have its world premiere at the Toronto edition of the Human Rights Watch Film Festival, held from March 8 to 19, 2023, and its international premiere at the festival’s London edition, taking place March 16 to 26, 2023.

National Film Board of Canada celebrates Black creativity throughout February and year round. NFB marks Black History Month with “Creating to Express Yourself,” a series of online and in-person activities.

Kicking off its Black History Month celebrations on February 2, the National Film Board of Canada (NFB) has specially curated rich and powerful in-person and online activities to keep Canadians learning, celebrating and honouring the country’s diverse Black communities throughout the month and all year long.

Wendy Tilby and Amanda Forbis’s NFB animated short The Flying Sailor nominated at ASIFA-Hollywood’s Annie Awards. Winsor McCay Award for career achievement honours Evelyn Lambart, Canada’s first woman animator.

The brilliance of Canadian women animators today and in the past is being recognized at the 50th Annie Awards in Hollywood. Wendy Tilby and Amanda Forbis’s acclaimed National Film Board of Canada (NFB) production The Flying Sailor has been nominated for Best Animated Short Subject.