The National Film Board of Canada (NFB) would like to congratulate Quebec women’s film pioneer Mireille Dansereau on winning the 2022 Albert Tessier Award.
In December and January, more films than ever will be available free of charge on nfb.ca, with a captivating selection from various NFB studios across the country, just in time for the holidays—and for a while after
The unveiling of SPHERES (2020) took place at the NFB on Wednesday, November 23. This work of public art was created by famed industrial designer Michel Dallaire, in honour of animation master Norman McLaren.
We are delighted with the appointment of Suzanne Guèvremont as the new Government Film Commissioner and Chairperson of the National Film Board of Canada, following an announcement by the Honourable Pablo Rodriguez, Minister of Canadian Heritage.
Phil Comeau’s latest feature documentary, L’Ordre secret (The Secret Order), will be shown at Cineplex Cinemas Dieppe (both in its original French version and with English subtitles) starting December 2 and at the Cinéma du Centre de Caraquet starting December 9.
This week, I’ve come to the end of my term as Commissioner of the NFB, an organization that may be small but no less extraordinary for that.
The award-winning animated short film The Flying Sailor is available on The New Yorker’s digital channels today, November 18, as part of the magazine’s award-winning Screening Room series.
Martja Pajek’s multi-award-winning animated short Impossible Figures and other stories I (Animoon/National Film Board of Canada) is being featured as a Staff Pick on Vimeo, starting November 8.
Together, art and science can generate projects of almost limitless potential, mutually nurturing creation and research and pushing back the frontiers of experimentation and knowledge. This is the goal of a new partnership between the National Film Board of Canada’s Montreal-based Interactive Studio and Mila.
We’re very pleased to announce the appointment of Mélanie Brière to the position of Producer at the Montreal office of the Quebec, Canadian Francophonie and Acadian Documentary Studio.
More films than ever will be available for free streaming on nfb.ca in November, with a rich selection from various NFB studios around the country.
Directed by Luc Côté and Patricio Henriquez, the feature documentary Waiting for Raif will open in theatres in Montreal, Quebec City and Sherbrooke on November 4. Other cities may also be added.
The virtual reality work Plastisapiens, written and directed by Miri Chekhanovich and Édith Jorisch in collaboration with Dpt., will have its European festival premiere in the DocLab program at the International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam (IDFA), taking place in-person from November 9 to 20, 2022.
The NFB will have a strong presence at the Festival international du cinéma francophone en Acadie (FICFA), with two world premiere documentary screenings of films by Acadian directors: Phil Comeau’s L’Ordre secret (The Secret Order) and Georges Hannan’s Croque-mort. C’est beau la vie ! (Undertaker for Life!). Lynn Smith’s animated short What Rhymes with Toxic (Ce qui rime avec toxique) will also be presented. Several members of the NFB’s management, production and marketing teams will be available in person to meet with members of the public and francophone media-arts creators. The 36th edition of FICFA runs from November 10 to 18, 2022, in greater Moncton.
The Magical Caresses animated documentary series by Lori Malépart-Traversy, produced by the NFB, will be available free of charge across Canada on nfb.ca starting October 17. Consisting of five animated shorts that take a playful and uninhibited look at solo sexuality, the series has screened to acclaim on the national and international festival circuit.