Changes to the NFB French Program’s Documentary Studio: Colette Loumède steps down from her role as Executive Producer to devote herself to production.
The National Film Board of Canada (NFB) is paying tribute to its Atlantic founder, Rex Tasker, who died on July 24 at his home in Musquodoboit Harbour, Nova Scotia.
WALL, a National Film Board of Canada (NFB) feature-length animated film written by David Hare, the renowned British playwright, screenwriter (BBC Two/Netflix series Collateral) and two-time Oscar nominee (The Hours; The Reader), and directed by award-winning Calgary filmmaker Cam Christiansen, opens theatrically across Canada starting August 13 in Montreal—followed by dates in Calgary and Vancouver, with more cities to be announced soon.
Nova Scotia filmmaker Rohan Fernando is the National Film Board of Canada’s newest producer, joining the NFB’s Quebec Atlantic Studio in Halifax, executive producer Annette Clarke has announced.
Nicolas Wadimoff’s feature documentary The Apollo of Gaza, a National Film Board of Canada (NFB) co-production, will be having its world premiere at this year’s Locarno Festival. Produced by Colette Loumède (NFB), Philippe Coeytaux (Akka Films), and Irène Challand (RTS), the film is screening in the official competition at the 29th Semaine de la critique, which takes place August 3 to 10, 2018.
The National Film Board of Canada’s Quebec Atlantic Studio is looking for submissions for Reimagining My Quebec—a new initiative for anglophone, allophone, and Indigenous filmmakers from Quebec and Nunavik that will give emerging and established directors a chance to create artful short documentaries with the NFB.
As the fall deadline approaches for the 2018 NFB/imagineNATIVE Digital Project Prize’s call for submissions, applicants have a new resource to help them put together the best possible pitch—a Facebook Live discussion on July 19 that will offer valuable insights and tips on how to apply for the sixth edition of this exceptional program for Indigenous creators. This partnership has resulted in works that have been programmed nationally and internationally, including at the Venice Biennale and Berlinale Forum (Berlin).
The Vancouver premiere of Vancouver filmmaker Christina Willings’ new short film Beauty leads off a strong selection of new and classic National Film Board of Canada (NFB) productions at the 30th Vancouver Queer Film Festival (August 9–19), which is also presenting Diane Obomsawin’s multi-award-winning 2016 animated short, I Like Girls, as well as a retrospective screening of the late Clint Alberta’s subversive 1999 feature, Deep Inside Clint Star, presented as part of the festival’s special 30th anniversary programming.
On the eve of the summer holidays, the NFB offers a brief overview of its last fiscal year, in terms of both creation of works and distribution to the public. For Claude Joli-Coeur, Government Film Commissioner and Chair of the NFB, it is the collective talent and efforts of NFB artists, craftspeople, collaborators, co-producers and employees that account for the year’s success.
On June 21, National Indigenous Peoples Day, Canada’s public producer and distributor announces year 1 results on Indigenous equity commitments
We all have complicated relationships with our families—luckily for animator Alexandra Lemay, she’s been able to turn that into comedy gold with her new National Film Board of Canada (NFB) stop-motion short Freaks of Nurture, making its world premiere on June 21 at the 24th annual Palm Springs International ShortFest.
Twenty-five years after its release, Alanis Obomsawin’s 1993 National Film Board of Canada (NFB) landmark feature documentary, Kanehsatà:ke: 270 Years of Resistance, will be screening for the first time in the Mohawk language, on June 21, 2018, at 1:30 p.m. at the Rotiwennakehte School, 407 St. Michel, in Kanehsatà:ke Mohawk Territory.
The National Film Board of Canada (NFB) is pleased to announce that audiences in Quebec will once again have the opportunity to see Luc Bourdon’s feature documentary The Devil’s Share (La part du diable) on the big screen.
The trailer and poster of the documentary Pauline Julien, Intimate and Political (Pauline Julien, intime et politique) by Pascale Ferland, a National Film Board of Canada (NFB) production in collaboration with Radio-Canada, will be unveiled today, tying in with the June 8th show La Renarde, sur les traces de Pauline Julien, produced by Spectra Musique at the Francos de Montréal. The Quebec theatrical release of the documentary is set for September 21, in this 20th year since the death of the great singer-songwriter-composer.
Launching Saturday, June 2, starting at 8 p.m., ET, eight new short films by the National Film Board of Canada (NFB) will celebrate the achievements of Canadian performing arts legends at NFB.ca—as this year’s laureates are honoured at the Governor General’s Performing Arts Awards in Ottawa.