On February 20, the National Film Board of Canada (NFB) held the first bilateral meeting of signatories to the Collaboration Agreement for the Development of Arts and Culture in the Francophone Minority Communities of Canada since the agreement was renewed in December 2018 for a period of five years. The NFB has been a signatory to the agreement since 2002.
The world premiere of Loïc Darses’ feature documentary La fin des terres (Where the Land Ends) took place in a packed house of deeply moved viewers on the closing night of the Rendez-vous Québec Cinéma (RVQC). The film will be opening in Quebec City at Cinéma Cartier on Friday, March 22.
The world premiere of Loïc Darses’ feature documentary La fin des terres (Where the Land Ends) took place in a packed house of deeply moved viewers on the closing night of the Rendez-vous Québec Cinéma (RVQC). The film will open in Montreal at the Cinémathèque québécoise on Tuesday, March 12, and the English-subtitled version will begin screening at Cinéma Moderne on Friday, March 22.
On the eve of International Women’s Day, the National Film Board of Canada (NFB) is pleased to announce that it has achieved its gender-parity goals for the number of productions directed by women and for production budgets allocated to women, three years after making its initial commitment.
John Walker’s Assholes: A Theory will have its world premiere at CPH:DOX (Copenhagen International Documentary Film Festival, March 20–31) and its North American premiere as a Special Presentation at the Hot Docs Canadian International Documentary Festival (April 25–May 5).
On March 4, the NFB in collaboration with the UQAM, is launching Clit-me (nfb.ca/clitme), a five-minute mobile interactive game that takes a light-hearted and open approach to female sexual satisfaction.
Three timely and provocative National Film Board of Canada (NFB) feature documentaries are debuting at CPH:DOX (Copenhagen International Documentary Film Festival, March 20–31).
Acclaimed Canadian author Joy Kogawa, Toronto-based design and experience agency Jam3 and the National Film Board of Canada have unveiled East of the Rockies, an interactive augmented reality (AR) app based on true events about life in one of Canada’s Japanese internment camps.
The National Film Board of Canada (NFB) is taking part in the Rendez-vous de la Francophonie (RVF) for the 14th consecutive year. This year’s event runs March 1 to 31 and tackles the theme of cultures in dialogue.
For the 11th consecutive year, the National Film Board of Canada is bringing together acclaimed Canadian filmmakers to create short cinematic tributes to Canadian performing arts legends, as the Governor General’s Performing Arts Awards (GGPAA) gets set to honour laureates at its 27th annual Awards Gala, taking place April 27, 2019, at the National Arts Centre in Ottawa.
Principal photography is now underway on Ice Breakers, a NFB short documentary by Sandi Rankaduwa that will explore the little-known Black-Canadian history of hockey and its Nova Scotian forefathers.
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 (NFB), will have its world premiere in its original French version at the Rendez-vous Québec Cinéma (RVQC) at 6 p.m. on Monday, February 25, at the Cineplex Odéon Quartier Latin (theatre 10) in Montreal during a blue carpet event.
Yousra Benziane is the happy winner of this year’s Regard sur Montréal residency. The $75,000 bursary will allow the filmmaker to spend 11 months on writing, directing, post-producing, and presenting the short film Nitrate.
The National Film Board of Canada (NFB) will be at the 37th Rendez-vous Québec Cinéma, February 20 to March 2, 2019, with a selection of 15 NFB productions and co-productions directed by filmmakers with strong auteur points of view—nine feature-length documentaries, five animated shorts, and an immersive documentary.
imagineNATIVE and its partners, including the Indigenous Screen Office, announced today the release of a research report entitled Pathways to the International Market for Indigenous Screen Content: Success Stories, Lessons Learned from Selected Jurisdictions and a Strategy for Growth. The report will be presented by Jesse Wente, Director of the Indigenous Screen Office, at the 2019 Prime Time in Ottawa industry conference.