The short documentary Moments of Life, directed by Samuel-A. Caron and France Gallant, will be available for free streaming at NFB.ca as of Thursday, October 15, marking Pregnancy and Infant Loss Awareness Day.
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).
Five productions and co-productions from the National Film Board of Canada (NFB) have been selected for the Festival du nouveau cinéma (FNC) in Montreal, which will be held online from October 7 to 31, 2020, across Canada.
It’s been acclaimed at the world’s most prestigious festivals and showcases for immersive storytelling—now virtual reality fans everywhere can experience Randall Okita’s National Film Board of Canada production The Book of Distance free of charge, starting October 8.
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.
Agence debuted earlier this month at the prestigious Venice International Film Festival and is available now for purchase for VR, PC or mobile.
The Documentary Organization of Canada / l’Association des documentaristes du Canada (DOC) is pleased to release its online guide Documentary Production in the Era of COVID-19: Best Practices by and for Documentary Filmmakers.
Following its March world premiere online at the International Festival of Films on Art (FIFA), the documentary short Open Sky: Portrait of a Pavilion in Venice, directed by Katerine Giguère, will be available for viewing free online at NFB.ca starting on October 5, to mark World Architecture Day.
The National Film Board of Canada’s acclaimed English Animation Studio in Montreal is launching the second edition of NFB XP, a program to encourage more experimentation by animators as well as creators and innovators from related disciplines, with a deadline for applications on October 14, 2020.
Later this month and throughout October, a wealth of new content will continue to be made available on NFB.ca.
Starting Sunday, September 27, the full version of Félix Rose’s feature documentary Les Rose (The Rose Family, Babel Films/NFB) can be viewed online free of charge in Canada on NFB.ca.
Audiences across Atlantic Canada will be able to experience powerful feature documentaries and deeply personal animated works by National Film Board of Canada (NFB) creators on FIN AIFF Stream (September 17–24), as the 2020 Atlantic International Film Festival goes online.
Taking poetry to another dimension, the feature film Plus haut que les flammes (Higher Than Flames Will Go) by Acadian director Monique LeBlanc (NFB) is a moving and powerful cinematic adaptation of Louise Dupré’s acclaimed book of poetry Plus haut que les flammes.
Three more National Film Board of Canada works, including the hometown premiere of Vancouver filmmaker Ann Marie Fleming’s new animated short, Old Dog, have been added to an already impressive NFB lineup at the 2020 Vancouver International Film Festival (VIFF), taking place September 24 to October 7.
Tales of Ordinary Fatphobia, a short documentary directed by Josiane Blanc and produced by the NFB’s Canadian Francophonie Studio in Toronto, will be available for free at NFB.ca beginning September 21.