After being shown in its entirety on the big screen at Montreal’s Rendez-vous Québec Cinéma (RVQC) festival, the award-winning documentary series Maisonneuve, directed by Jean-Martin Gagnon, launches online for free at nfb.ca, on Friday, February 23.
For the 21st edition of Nuit Blanche à Montréal, the NFB is dreaming up a magical night of film for you on March 2! The NFB Space will be open late into the night so you can star in your own animated film and snap a glamour pic on the red carpet with a real Oscar (yes, you read that right!). Up the staircase at the Alanis Obomsawin Theatre, delightful film programs for all ages will be screening in a loop.
The South by Southwest (SXSW) Film & TV Festival in Austin, Texas (March 8 to 16, 2024) will spotlight powerful new Canadian non-fiction storytelling with world premieres of two feature-length documentaries co-produced by the National Film Board of Canada (NFB).
How has working remotely reshaped the workplace—and our lives? This is the timely question posed by Vancouver filmmaker Julien Capraro in his documentary Work Different, available for streaming free of charge on nfb.ca as of Friday, March 1.
The National Film Board of Canada joins the lineup of the 42nd Rendez-vous Québec Cinéma (RVQC) with 10 productions and co-productions, including the feature documentary Malartic by Nicolas Paquet, making its world premiere during a blue carpet event, and the documentary series Maisonneuve by Jean-Martin Gagnon, presented for the first time on the big screen.
More NFB productions and co-productions will be streaming free of charge on nfb.ca beginning in February, with the online launch of compelling documentaries that showcase diversity in both form and content.
Black History Month activities organized by the National Film Board of Canada (NFB) will have special significance this year, as the NFB pays tribute to acclaimed filmmaker Charles Officer, who died on December 1, 2023.
Nisha Pahuja’s Notice Pictures/National Film Board of Canada (NFB) co-production To Kill a Tiger has been nominated for the Oscar for Documentary Feature Film at the 96th Academy Awards.
The NFB announces reinvestments in production and innovation initiatives to serve creation, distribution and audience engagement.
The 2024 Available Light Film Festival in Whitehorse is featuring five films by National Film Board of Canada (NFB) creators from February 8 through 18—a selection of powerful and deeply personal feature-length and short documentaries.
The NFB will be taking part in the popular Animation First Festival at the French Institute Alliance Française (FIAF) in New York City, held January 23 to 28, 2024, and featuring a special focus on animated films from Quebec. The program will include the New York premiere of The Girl with the Red Beret (La fille au béret rouge), a genuine ode to Montreal by Janet Perlman
The 30th edition of the Victoria Film Festival (VFF) will showcase a BC premiere and award-winning documentary and animation from the National Film Board of Canada (NFB) during a 10-day celebration of cinema in the British Columbia capital, from February 2 to 11, 2024.
The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences has just announced that Nisha Pahuja’s acclaimed feature documentary To Kill a Tiger is one of 15 films shortlisted for the Documentary Feature Film Oscar. Link to the Academy press release: bit.ly/487oiii.
Making its world premiere at the International Film Festival Rotterdam, the bold new National Film Board of Canada (NFB) production A Man Imagined captures the bitter day-to-day life of a man who is routinely overlooked and often feared, in a “documentary fable” by the maverick filmmaking duo of Brian M. Cassidy and Melanie Shatzky.
The National Film Board of Canada will be among the contenders for top awards at this year’s Clermont-Ferrand International Short Film Festival