Six NFB docs in competition at Montreal International Documentary Festival. Women directors and creators with ties to Quebec strongly represented in NFB selection at RIDM.

Six National Film Board of Canada (NFB) produced and co-produced films will be in competition at the 2020 Montreal International Documentary Festival (RIDM)—in a lineup of NFB titles featuring the best in women’s non-fiction filmmaking from across the country, as well as a festival homecoming for filmmakers with deep roots in Quebec.

Selection of NFB titles by acclaimed women creators includes St. John’s filmmaker Jordan Canning’s new film. Jordan Canning and Howie Shia’s 4 North A, Robin McKenna’s Thanadoula and Catherine Lepage’s The Great Malaise screening at St. John’s International Women’s Film Festival.

The hometown premiere of 4 North A, the first collaboration between St. John’s director Jordan Canning and Saskatoon-born filmmaker Howie Shia, headlines a rich selection of three short works, produced or co-produced by the National Film Board of Canada (NFB), at the 2020 St. John’s International Women’s Film Festival (October 14–18).

Seven Indigenous works from the NFB featured at the imagineNATIVE Film + Media Arts Festival, available online across Canada. Michelle Latimer’s award-winning 90th Parallel Productions/NFB feature documentary Inconvenient Indian joins six French-language short films.

Audiences across Canada will be able to share in powerful Indigenous storytelling, including seven National Film Board of Canada (NFB) produced and co-produced works, at the online imagineNATIVE Film + Media Arts Festival (October 20–25, 2020). The NFB is also partnering on an industry panel for Indigenous virtual reality creators.