Samara Grace Chadwick’s feature documentary 1999 will open in Montreal at the Cinémathèque québécoise on October 19 and on October 21 in English at Cinema Moderne, a few days after making its grand American premiere at the Museum of the Moving Image (New York). Co-produced by Parabola Films, Beauvoir Films and the National Film Board of Canada (NFB), 1999 has been screening at festivals in Canada and abroad since the spring, garnering acclaim at Hot Docs (Toronto), the Festival international de cinéma Visions du Réel (Nyon, Switzerland), the Rendez-vous Québec Cinéma (Montreal) and the Festival international du cinéma francophone en Acadie (Moncton). Four of the Montreal screenings will include discussions with the director and special guests. The film is screening in French with English subtitles.
Marie Clements’ acclaimed National Film Board of Canada (NFB) musical documentary The Road Forward has spawned a single, “Indian Man,” now available on iTunes, Apple Music, YouTube, Spotify, Amazon Music or wherever you find your music.
A world leader in women’s filmmaking, the National Film Board of Canada (NFB) is back at the St. John’s International Women’s Film Festival (October 17 to 21) with an acclaimed six-film lineup of feature-length documentaries and animated shorts.
Museum of Symmetry, the virtual reality (VR) experience created by Ottawa-native cartoonist and animator Paloma Dawkins, will get its Canadian premiere in the official competition of the Ottawa International Animation Festival (OIAF), September 26 to 30, 2018. The public is invited to come discover this truly unique museum and meet its creator from September 27 to 30 in the OIAF Arts Court.
On September 19, Kevin D. A. Kurytnik and Carol Beecher’s award-winning animated short Skin for Skin (National Film Board of Canada/Fifteen Pound Pink Productions), a dark allegory of greed and spiritual reckoning set during the early days of the fur trade, begins streaming free of charge on NFB.ca, Facebook, and YouTube, as well as on Vimeo, where it’s been selected as a “Staff Pick.”
Two new virtual reality experiences from the National Film Board of Canada’s trailblazing Digital Studio in Vancouver—Homestay and Biidaaban: First Light—will be showcased at VIFF Immersed, a public exhibition at the Vancouver International Film Festival dedicated to exceptional narrative storytelling in VR, augmented reality and mixed reality.
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.