On September 11, 2018, the National Film Board of Canada (NFB) received Gold Parity Certification from Women in Governance at its Annual Recognition Gala, held in Montreal. The NFB is the first public cultural institution to earn this distinction from this Canadian non-profit organization, and is among 31 organizations across the country awarded certification this year.
Award-winning PEI filmmaker John Hopkins will be in San Francisco on September 13 at 11:15 a.m. with his acclaimed National Film Board of Canada (NFB) documentary Bluefin for a special screening and discussion at the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, organized by the International Ocean Film Festival and sponsored by the Canadian Consulate of San Francisco and Silicon Valley.
The NFB is opening the doors to its headquarters and legendary studios at 3155 Côte-de-Liesse Road for the last time. Open House activities will be taking place on Sunday, September 30, 2018, from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. as part of Journées de la culture, in collaboration with Héritage Montreal.
On September 10, the National Film Board of Canada (NFB) will begin streaming the award-winning animated short Threads, by Oscar-winning filmmaker Torill Kove, free on-demand at NFB.ca, Facebook, and YouTube. A year after the film was selected to screen at the Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF), the NFB is pleased to make this beautiful tale of emotional attachment publicly available.
Works from Vancouver-based filmmakers headline a rich National Film Board of Canada (NFB) selection at the Vancouver International Film Festival (September 27–October 12), as Oscar winners Alison Snowden and David Fine’s Animal Behaviour and Jay Cardinal Villeneuve’s Holy Angels join a seven-film NFB lineup.
From September 26 to 30, the National Film Board of Canada (NFB) will have an unprecedented presence at the Ottawa International Animation Festival (OIAF), with no fewer than nine films and virtual reality projects showcased, including six works in international competition and four premieres.
Michèle Bélanger, Executive Director of the National Film Board of Canada’s French Program, today announced the appointment of Denis McCready as Executive Producer of the Canadian Francophonie Studio. He has been serving as Acting Producer at the Studio’s Toronto centre since April and will assume his new position in Toronto on September 6.
Pascale Ferland’s highly anticipated feature-length documentary Pauline Julien, intime et politique will open in theatres on September 21, in Montreal (Cinéma Beaubien), Quebec City (Cinéma Le Clap), Sherbrooke (La Maison du Cinéma) and Trois-Rivières (Le Tapis Rouge), one week after its world premiere at the Quebec City Film Festival. The film will then go on to screen in cities throughout Quebec. At a special September 19 red carpet screening of the film at Théâtre Outremont in Montreal, performers from the musical tribute La Renarde, sur les traces de Pauline Julien, produced by Spectra Musique, will be repeating a short presentation they’ll be giving at the film’s world premiere in Quebec City on September 15. Pauline Julien was produced by Colette Loumède and Johanne Bergeron (NFB), in collaboration with Radio-Canada.
Featuring powerful and emotional stories both gripping and hilarious, the lineup of National Film Board of Canada (NFB) films at the Calgary International Film Festival (September 19–30) includes three Alberta premieres from award-winning Alberta and BC filmmakers.
Ready for another Edmonton winter? Kurt Spenrath and Frederick Kroetsch are helping Edmontonians get in the spirit as the short doc Snow Warrior (Open Sky Pictures/NFB) makes its world premiere at the 32nd Edmonton International Film Festival (EIFF), talking place September 27 through October 6.
Toronto’s Nathan Phillips Square is flooded. Its infrastructure has merged with the local fauna; mature trees grow through cracks in the sidewalks and vines cover south-facing walls. People commute via canoe and grow vegetables on skyscraper roofs. Urban life is thriving—and so are the languages of the Wendat, Kanien’kehá:ka (Mohawk) and Anishinaabe (Ojibway), this land’s first peoples.
The National Film Board of Canada (NFB) returns to the Quebec City Film Festival (QCFF), a major film event that runs from September 13 to 22, 2018, with the world premiere of Pauline Julien, intime et politique (Pauline Julien, intimate and political), directed by Pascale Ferland and produced by the NFB in collaboration with Radio-Canada.
Two acclaimed National Film Board of Canada (NFB) documentaries are being featured at the Toronto Palestine Film Festival (September 20 to 23) with the Toronto premiere of writer David Hare and director Cam Christiansen’s animated feature WALL, and a screening of Toronto filmmaker Christy Garland’s award-winning co-production What Walaa Wants (Murmur Media/NFB/Final Cut for Real).
There’s an impressive selection of six National Film Board of Canada (NFB) films at the 2018 FIN Atlantic International Film Festival (September 13 – 20).
Beginning August 9, HTC Vive VR headset users can experience an absurdist mind-and-body romp through the highest clouds to the ocean deep when they download the National Film Board of Canada (NFB) VR adventure game Museum of Symmetry for free from Steam and Viveport.