A multi-layered, deeply personal work from Ottawa heads up a rich selection of works at the 2019 Ottawa International Animation Festival (OIAF) with Chris Dainty’s Shannon Amen—based on the words, music and art of Dainty’s friend, Shannon Jamieson.
Following a series of screenings across the country, the feature documentary Sans Maman (Unmothered) by Franco-Albertan Marie-France Guerrette, a filmmaker of Acadian descent, will be available online in Canada for free starting Tuesday, September 3, on NFB.ca.
Powerful, groundbreaking films by Indigenous and Alberta creators join works from across Canada as part of a strong selection at the 2019 Calgary International Film Festival (September 18–29).
The National Film Board of Canada (NFB) is back at the Quebec City Film Festival (QCFF) this year with three films.
Shirley Vercruysse, Executive Producer of the NFB’s BC & Yukon Studio, is proud to announce that Teri Snelgrove has been appointed Producer at the Vancouver-based production unit.
Now, thanks to the National Film Board of Canada’s online screening room, NFB.ca, the film’s equally legendary soundtrack by jazz great John Coltrane is finally being released via Impulse! Records/UMe, a division of Universal Music Group, as Blue World—with the title track available today and the full album launching September 27.
With premieres and gala presentations, the 2019 FIN Atlantic International Film Festival will showcase the talents of visionary documentary filmmakers from across Atlantic Canada and the country, September 12–19.
Nadine Beaudet and Danic Champoux’s feature documentary La fille du cratère (Daughter of the Crater), co-produced by Les vues du fleuve and the National Film Board of Canada, will be screening at Montreal’s Cinémathèque québécoise in its original French version starting September 13.
The National Film Board of Canada (NFB) will be taking part in this year’s Congrès mondial acadien (CMA), held August 10 to 24 in Prince Edward Island (PEI) and Southeastern New Brunswick.
The 2019 Toronto International Film Festival will feature a stellar lineup with world premieres from filmmakers Alanis Obomsawin, Yung Chang, Theodore Ushev, Christopher Auchter and Sandra Ignagni.
Today, as the Rendez-vous de la fierté Acadie Love festival takes place in Caraquet, New Brunswick, the National Film Board of Canada (NFB) is launching a brand-new selection of more than 40 LGBTQ2+-themed titles online. Comprising recent films as well as key works produced beginning in the 1990s, the collection is available from anywhere in the world, free of charge, at NFB.ca/LGBTQ2+ (English titles) and ONF.ca/LGBTQ2+ (French titles). These documentaries and animated films illustrate various challenges and issues experienced by these communities over the years, amid evolving social attitudes.
The National Film Board of Canada was greatly saddened to learn of the death of Yolande Simard Perrault, who passed away in Montreal on July 4 at the age of 91. An archeologist by training who was passionate about botany, Yolande was the wife of filmmaker Pierre Perrault (1927–1999).
The National Film Board of Canada (NFB), a world-renowned producer of creative documentary films and interactive stories, and POV Spark, the interactive production arm of the iconic independent PBS documentary series POV, have announced the eight participants in Otherly—a first-ever partnership between the NFB and POV that sets out to help define creative non-fiction storytelling in the age of mobile and ephemeral media, with perspectives and voices from Canada and the United States that aren’t always being heard.
From left to right: On June 13, 2019, Kirwan Cox (Executive Director, QEPC), Claude Joli-Coeur (Commissioner, NFB), Bettina Forget (President,...
For National Indigenous Peoples Day (June 21), the National Film Board of Canada (NFB) is marking the second anniversary of the launch of its Indigenous Action Plan with a slate of 40 Indigenous-led works in development, production or recent release—while delivering on a commitment to devote a minimum of 15% of its production spending on Indigenous works, one year ahead of schedule.