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.
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.