The NFB is celebrating International Animation Day (October 28) with a special Animation Week program featuring bold and dazzling new works by animators from across Canada.
The National Film Board of Canada (NFB), the Canadian Film Centre’s Media Lab (CFC Media Lab) and JustFilms | Ford Foundation have come together to launch OPEN IMMERSION II, a documentary VR lab for Indigenous creators.
The National Film Board of Canada (NFB) is back at the Montreal International Documentary Festival (RIDM) with eight productions and co-productions, including six feature-length docs.
Angelina McLeod’s five-part series, Freedom Road, from the Shoal Lake 40 Anishinaabe First Nation, will have its world premiere November 5 at NFB.ca as well as at a free opening night special presentation to kick off the 11th Gimme Some Truth Documentary Festival (November 5 to 10) in Winnipeg.
The remarkable cinematic legacy of world-renowned filmmaker Alanis Obomsawin is more accessible than ever at the National Film Board of Canada’s online screening room, NFB.ca, with over 20 films recently added.
On October 8, filmmaker and NFB Pacific and Yukon Studio producer Selwyn Jacob received this honour from Dalhousie University in recognition of his outstanding contributions.
St. John’s premieres of three Newfoundland and Labrador films lead off a strong selection of six works at the 30th St. John’s International Women’s Film Festival (SJIWFF), which takes place October 16–20, 2019.
World premieres and special presentations are part of a powerful selection of nine Indigenous documentary and animated works at the 20th imagineNATIVE Film + Media Arts Festival, taking place October 22–29, 2019, in Toronto.
The National Film Board of Canada (NFB) returns to the Festival du nouveau cinéma (FNC) with four shorts in the official competition, including two animated films making their Quebec premiere: The Physics of Sorrow by Theodore Ushev, which just won honourable mention at the Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF), and Shannon Amen by Chris Dainty.
Today, René Bourdages, Director General of Creation and Innovation at the National Film Board of Canada, announced the appointment of Louis-Richard Tremblay as Executive Producer of the NFB’s Montreal-based French Digital Studio.
From June 23 to July 12, 2020, Toronto’s Soulpepper Theatre Company and the National Film Board of Canada (NFB) will present the North American premiere of Draw Me Close, a critically acclaimed immersive experience by award-winning playwright and filmmaker Jordan Tannahill, co-produced by the NFB and the National Theatre (NT) of Great Britain.
Sandi Rankaduwa’s short NFB documentary Ice Breakers—uncovering the buried history of Black hockey pioneers—makes its Quebec premiere at the Montreal International Black Film Festival on Saturday, September 28, at 9 p.m. at the Cinéma du Parc, as part of a program of short films.
Acadian filmmaker Daniel Léger’s documentary Les artisans de l’atelier (The Artisans), a National Film Board of Canada (NFB) production, will end its one-year tour of the Atlantic Provinces with a bang on Thursday, September 19 at 7 p.m., with a special screening at Monument-Lefebvre in Memramcook, the town in which the film was shot.
Powerful stories from across British Columbia and beyond are featured in a selection of 10 new works at the 2019 Vancouver International Film Festival, September 26 to October 11.
After 63 years on Côte-de-Liesse Road, the National Film Board of Canada (NFB) is moving its headquarters to Îlot Balmoral, in the heart of Montreal’s Quartier des Spectacles.