Bevel Up, an award-winning documentary and learning resource to help healthcare workers deliver compassionate care to people who use drugs, is available for the first time as free online harm-reduction content at NFB.ca.
No Objects (Sans objets) by Moïa Jobin-Paré, a National Film Board of Canada (NFB) production, will have its world-premiere screening at the Chromatic Festival in Montreal on Thursday, May 16, followed by a live-music and photo-scratching performance. The experimental animated short, which blends photographs, scratching and a soundtrack assembled from original recordings, will then embark on a tour of Canadian and international festivals.
Launching May 2 at NFB.ca/supremelaw and Hot Docs, the National Film Board of Canada (NFB) interactive documentary Supreme Law by acclaimed director Katerina Cizek will give Canadians a fresh new perspective on the Canadian Constitution—exploring the incredible stories behind the 1982 patriation and how they continue to resonate in our country to this day.
In 1990, the National Film Board of Canada (NFB) made waves with Five Feminist Minutes, a series of short films produced by the trailblazing Studio D, the world’s first all-woman production unit. Now, as the NFB marks its 80th anniversary, four directors have picked up the thread with Five Feminist Minutes 2019.
Launching Saturday, April 27, starting at 8 p.m., ET, seven new short films by the National Film Board of Canada (NFB) will celebrate the achievements of Canadian performing arts legends at NFB.ca—as this year’s laureates are honoured at the Governor General’s Performing Arts Awards Gala at the National Arts Centre in Ottawa.
David Christensen, Executive Producer of the NFB’s North West Studio, is proud to announce that Coty Savard has been appointed Producer at the Edmonton-based production unit.
To mark Earth Day on Monday, April 22, the NFB Film Club is pleased to present, free of charge in 33 public libraries across the country, 35 screenings of Velcrow Ripper and Nova Ami’s visually stunning feature documentary Metamorphosis, co-produced by Clique Pictures, Transparent Film and the National Film Board of Canada (NFB).
Felix & Paul Studios, the EMMY® Award-winning creator of immersive entertainment experiences, in collaboration with the Academy Award®-winning National Film Board of Canada, one of the world’s leading digital content hubs, has been selected to premiere their virtual reality experience—GYMNASIA—at the 2019 Tribeca Film Festival.
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, are teaming up to produce Otherly—a new initiative to create eight short boundary-pushing Instagram Stories by visionary women, non-binary, and/or genderqueer storytellers from Canada and the United States.
As of today, THE TESLA WORLD LIGHT (NFB), an animated short directed by Matthew Rankin, is streaming free of charge worldwide on NFB.ca, Facebook and YouTube.
The 2019 DOXA Documentary Film Festival (May 2 to 12, 2019) will feature four powerful National Film Board of Canada (NFB) produced and co-produced documentaries, including major new works by Vancouver filmmakers Baljit Sangra and Paul Émile d’Entremont, as well as BC premieres from Tasha Hubbard and Eric Thiessen.
The NFB’s French Program Documentary Studio, in collaboration with Quebec’s Institut national de l’image et du son (INIS), Réalisatrices Équitables and Femmes du cinéma, de la télévision et des médias numériques (FCTMN), presents the fourth public conversation in Les femmes de métiers, a series that aims to inspire more women to pursue careers in the film industry by sharing the experiences of successful female artists.
Atempo and the National Film Board of Canada (NFB) are delighted to announce at this year’s NAB Show (Las Vegas, April 8-11), that they are renewing their partnership for the next 10 years.
The NFB and ARTE France are launching today the documentary webseries Streamers on the NFB’s YouTube channel and Facebook page.
Ten National Film Board of Canada (NFB) premieres—including five new feature-length documentaries—are part of a landmark year for the NFB and its co-producers at the 2019 Hot Docs Canadian International Documentary Festival, April 25 to May 5, 2019.