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.
The National Film Board of Canada (NFB) has two new directors of operation in place for its English and French-language production branches, with the appointments of John Christou and Stéphanie L’Écuyer, respectively.
Starting January 25, the National Film Board of Canada (NFB) will be streaming Éléonore Goldberg’s animated short film My Yiddish Papi (Picbois Productions/NFB) free of charge across Canada on NFB.ca, as well as on the YouTube channel and on the NFB’s Facebook page.
The Vancouver-based Oscar-winning animation duo of Alison Snowden and David Fine has received another Academy Award nomination—for their hilarious new National Film Board of Canada (NFB) animated short Animal Behaviour, taking us inside a group therapy session for animals who grapple with issues not unlike like our own.
The NFB French Program Documentary Studio and Paralœil are partnering to co-produce a series of director-driven documentary shorts for the 4th edition of the 5 courts (5 Shorts) project.
Hailed as one of the best feature films of 2018 by Canada’s Top Ten, Toronto filmmaker Christy Garland’s acclaimed NFB co-production What Walaa Wants (Murmur Media/ Final Cut for Real/NFB) is touring major cities across Canada in 2019.
The National Film Board of Canada deeply mourns the loss of documentary filmmaker, producer and author Pepita Ferrari, who died on December 30 at her home in Lac Brome, at the age of 66.
The Cinémathèque québécoise will usher in the new year by presenting a work by multidisciplinary artist Martin Bureau entitled Les murs du désordre from January 12 to February 10. This tension-filled, moving work of social criticism and geopolitics puts the viewer in control of their own unique documentary experience.