Starting November 15 on NFB.ca, Eric Thiessen’s Golden Sheaf Award-winning National Film Board of Canada (NFB) short doc Talking at Night takes viewers inside Saskatoon’s Mobile Crisis Centre, a critically needed but largely unknown service.
Leaders in their fields, the National Film Board of Canada (NFB), the Quartier des Spectacles Partnership (Partnership), Element AI, Google AI and the Conseil des arts de Montréal (CAM) are joining forces for the first time in an exciting initiative. Together, they’ll offer a Montreal-based professional multidisciplinary artist or art collective the chance to take part in Art & AI, a research and creation residency mixing the arts and artificial intelligence. As a global hub in both fields, Montreal is a recognized innovation powerhouse.
The National Film Board of Canada (NFB), in collaboration with the Video Pool Media Arts Centre and On Screen Manitoba, is launching the second edition of the Déranger creative lab, designed for established multidisciplinary artists working in the French language and hailing from Inuit, Métis and First Nations communities anywhere in Canada.
It is with great sadness that the National Film Board of Canada (NFB) learned today of the death of former NFB Commissioner François N. Macerola.
Starting today, Michel La Veaux’s feature documentary Labrecque, from Film to Memory (Labrecque, une caméra pour la mémoire, ACPAV/NFB) can be streamed for free on NFB.ca in Canada and Europe.
MU, the charitable non-profit mural arts organization, inaugurated a new mural in the Ville-Marie borough paying tribute the great Abenaki filmmaker, Alanis Obomsawin.
As of November 6, the National Film Board of Canada (NFB) will be streaming the feature documentary Pauline Julien, Intimate and Political free of charge at NFB.ca. Produced at the NFB by Colette Loumède and Johanne Bergeron, in collaboration with Radio-Canada, the film is still showing in theatres following its hugely successful world premiere on September 15 at the Québec City Film Festival, where it won the Audience Choice Award.
The 2018 Whistler Film Festival (WFF) is celebrating excellence in Western Canadian filmmaking with the launches of two National Film Board of Canada (NFB) documentaries: the world premiere of Way of the Hunter, a short documentary by Williams Lake, BC-based writer/director Robert Moberg, as well as the BC debut of Calgary filmmaker Laura Marie Wayne’s acclaimed feature debut, Love, Scott.
Eight NFB films screening at FICFA, including two docs making their world premiere: Daniel Léger’s Les artisans de l’atelier, which opens the festival, and Marie-France Guerrette’s Sans Maman.
Astra Taylor’s timely and provocative National Film Board of Canada (NFB) feature What Is Democracy? is back in Vancouver at the Vancity Theatre, starting December 7 (complete schedule below).
After making their world premiere at the Festival du cinéma international en Abitibi-Témiscamingue (FCIAT), the documentaries in the 5 Shorts Project (Nadagam films/NFB)—Granny and Mia by Émilie Villeneuve, Children of the Nomad by Evelyne Papatie, Délia from 9 to 5 by Délia Gunn, The Mental Load for Dummies by Jessy Poulin, and Toes Heels Toes Heels by Gabrielle Cornellier—can now be streamed free of charge from anywhere in the world on NFB.ca and the NFB’s YouTube channel.
Fresh from its win for Best Interactive Work at the imagineNATIVE Film + Media Arts Festival, Biidaaban: First Light will be shown at the UXdoc Space of the 2018 Rencontres internationales du documentaire de Montréal(RIDM), taking place November 8 to 19. This will be Biidaaban’s Quebec premiere in English and its world premiere in its French-language version.
For the 12th edition of the National Film Board of Canada’s FREE online showcase Get Animated!, the NFB is celebrating International Animation Day (October 28) and Halloween this year—with a special program that includes the online streaming premiere of Sylvie Trouvé and Dale Hayward’s chilling Slavic folklore-inspired short Bone Mother.
From November 8 to 18, the National Film Board of Canada (NFB) will have a strong presence at the Montreal International Documentary Festival (RIDM), one of North America’s leading documentary film festivals, with seven new documentaries, an animated short, and an immersive virtual reality work.
Christine Chevarie-Lessard’s Point d’équilibre (A Delicate Balance) will be released in theatres in December, just in time for the holidays. The feature doc takes a sensitive, behind-the-scenes look at children in the École supérieure de ballet du Québec’s professional training program. It was produced by Chantal Lafleur and Geneviève Thibert (Productions Avenida) and Nathalie Cloutier (NFB), with Colette Loumède (NFB) as executive producer.