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.
After playing at festivals in Canada, the U.S. and Europe, Jean-François Caissy’s feature documentary Premières armes (First Stripes) is being released in theatres beginning January 18, in its original French version in Quebec City (Cinéma Cartier), Eastern Quebec and Montreal and in an English-subtitled version at Montreal’s Cinéma Moderne.
The world premiere of Victoria-born filmmaker John Bolton’s feature documentary That Higher Level headlines a stellar selection of eleven National Film Board of Canada (NFB) documentary and animated films at the Victoria Film Festival (February 1–10, 2019).
The National Film Board of Canada (NFB) and Red Bull Media House present Direction Nord (True North) by Ryan Sidhoo, a nine-episode documentary series now available online with French subtitles.
The National Film Board of Canada (NFB) and Rhizome are pleased to announce a growing technical collaboration to ensure sustained access to important interactive digital films and web-based artworks in the NFB’s collection.
Astra Taylor’s timely and provocative National Film Board of Canada (NFB) feature What Is Democracy? is back in Toronto after its North American premiere at TIFF earlier this year, with screenings at the Hot Docs Ted Rogers Cinema starting January 4.