Toronto-based Métis creator Terril Calder’s award-winning NFB animated short Meneath: The Hidden Island of Ethics will be making its international premiere at the prestigious Berlin International Film Festival, taking place February 10 to 20, 2022.
Three award-winning National Film Board of Canada (NFB) productions will be presented at the 2022 Victoria Film Festival (VFF), taking place February 4 to 13, both in-person at The Vic Theatre and online across British Columbia.
The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences has just announced that three NFB co-productions — Affairs of the Art by Joanna Quinn and Les Mills (Beryl Productions International Ltd./NFB), Mauvaises herbes (Bad Seeds) by Claude Cloutier (L’Unité centrale/NFB) and Comme un fleuve (Flowing Home) by Sandra Desmazières (Les Films de l’Arlequin/NFB) — are among the 15 films shortlisted for this year’s Oscar for Best Animated Short Film. Link to the Academy press release: osca.rs/OscarsShortlists
A fine tradition that gets even better every year! The NFB Ho Ho Holidays channel is back again with more goodies than ever: seasonal classics, recent works and family favourites. It’s 53 films in all that you can watch for free!
The National Film Board of Canada VR experience This Is Not a Ceremony, written and directed by Ahnahktsipiitaa (Colin Van Loon), will have its world premiere at the 2022 Sundance Film Festival, taking place January 20–30.
Four National Film Board of Canada (NFB) works by Indigenous filmmakers will screen on November 22 in St. John’s at the Spirit Song Film Showcase, in a special evening of Indigenous short cinema. The free event starts at 7:30 p.m., with tickets available through the Arts and Culture Centre.
After a successful online launch in Canada last year, Gentille M. Assih’s feature-length documentary Into the Light will be streaming on NFB.ca free of charge worldwide for a limited time, starting November 25, the International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women.
The NFB, Canada’s public producer, has greenlit 20 new productions and co-productions—documentary, animation and interactive works that got underway between April and September, 2021, following the NFB’s health guidelines and protocols for the COVID-19 pandemic.
The National Film Board of Canada would like to congratulate Serge Giguère on winning the 2021 Albert Tessier Award, Quebec cinema’s highest honour.
Jennie Williams’ award-winning National Film Board of Canada (NFB) short, Nalujuk Night, will have its US premiere at DOC NYC from November 10-18, 2021.
The National Film Board of Canada (NFB) has been a go-to source of educational resources for more than 80 years, and its learning content is now available to all primary and secondary school teachers and students in Quebec via a brand-new online platform, Ma classe/My Classroom.
NFB.ca is adding wonderful new titles in November.
Executive Producer David Christensen announced today that Niki Little, former Artistic Director at imagineNATIVE, is joining the NFB’s North West Studio as a Producer, based out of the studio’s Winnipeg office.
The interactive animated film Brainstream (Sérotonine Anonyme), written and directed by Caroline Robert of Studio AATOAA and produced by the NFB, will have its world premiere at the prestigious International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam (IDFA) on Friday, November 19, 2021.
The National Film Board of Canada will have another strong slate of films at this year’s Festival international du cinéma francophone en Acadie (FICFA, the international festival of francophone films in Acadia), which will be screening four NFB-produced or co-produced animated shorts.