GYMNASIA Virtual Reality Experience by the National Film Board of Canada (NFB) and Felix & Paul Studios to Premiere at 2019 Tribeca Film Festival. New Stop Motion VR Experience to Simultaneously Launch on the Oculus Store.

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.

What does a documentary look like on Instagram Stories? NFB and POV Spark seek bold voices and creative visions for new Instagram Stories series, Otherly. Submit your proposals by May 17.

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.

An NFB, INIS, Réalisatrices Équitables and FCTMN collaboration. Public discussion series Les femmes de métiers continues on April 15 with a conversation on music composition.

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.

Ten NFB premieres and a tribute to Studio D women pioneers coming to the 2019 Hot Docs festival. Opening night film by Tasha Hubbard… premieres by John Walker; Nance Ackerman, Ariella Pahlke and Teresa MacInnes; Rogério Soares; Baljit Sangra; Katerina Cizek… plus contemporary filmmakers revisit Five Feminist Minutes.

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.

NFB holds first bilateral meeting with fellow signatories since the renewal of the Collaboration Agreement for the Development of Arts and Culture in the Francophone Minority Communities of Canada.

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.

Loïc Darses’ NFB doc La fin des terres (Where the Land Ends) opens in Montreal on Tuesday, March 12. A tour of Quebec with special screenings is planned for the spring.

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.