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.

Joy Kogawa, Jam3 and the NFB bring Canadian history to life through immersive AR experience. East of the Rockies: An interactive app retelling of acclaimed author Joy Kogawa’s story about Japanese internment in WWII.

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.

Alanis Obomsawin a 2019 mentor; NFB’s GGPAA collection to reach 91 films. Seven new National Film Board of Canada shorts celebrate Governor General’s Performing Arts Awards laureates.

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.