WALL selected to screen in Annecy festival’s prestigious feature film competition. NFB production written by acclaimed British playwright David Hare and directed by Canadian filmmaker Cam Christiansen.

WALL, a feature-length animated film written by David Hare, the renowned British playwright, screenwriter and two-time Oscar nominee (for The Hours and The Reader), and directed by award-winning Canadian filmmaker Cam Christiansen, marks the NFB's return to the coveted feature film competition section of the Annecy International Animation Film Festival. The film, which explores both sides of the wall separating Israel and Palestine, will be screened with the writer and director as well as NFB producer David Christensen in attendance.

NFB VR experience Museum of Symmetry goes to Berlin and Annecy. Paloma Dawkins’ work to have its world premiere at the A MAZE Festival.

Museum of Symmetry, a virtual reality (VR) experience directed and animated by Paloma Dawkins and produced by the National Film Board of Canada (NFB), will have its world premiere at the A MAZE. 7th International Games and Playful Media Festival in Berlin, taking place from April 25 to 29. The work has also been selected to screen at the Annecy International Animation Film Festival, the world’s largest animation event, running from June 11 to 16.

Patrick Bouchard’s The Subject (NFB) selected for the 50th Directors’ Fortnight at Cannes.

The National Film Board of Canada (NFB) will be at Cannes for a second year running, this time with Patrick Bouchard’s animated short The Subject. Produced by Julie Roy, the film has been selected to screen in the 50th-anniversary edition of the Directors’ Fortnight, a section organized by the French Directors’ Guild and held in parallel with the Cannes Film Festival. This year’s Directors’ Fortnight takes place from May 9–19. The Subject is the first of Bouchard’s films to have made the cut of this international lineup. After Cannes, it will go on to screen in competition at the Annecy International Animation Film Festival, which runs from June 11–16.

Acclaimed NFB content acquired by China’s CCTV and Bilibili

The National Film Board of Canada has signed two new deals with broadcasters and online providers in the People’s Republic of China, which will see acclaimed NFB animation and documentaries available on CCTV-10, the science and education channel of China Central Television, as well as the Bilibili web portal.

Four new and classic NFB works screening at Vancouver’s DOXA. New films directed by Velcrow Ripper and Nova Ami, Louise BigEagle and Asinnajaq join a special screening of Selwyn Jacob’s classic documentary.

The National Film Board of Canada’s commitment to exploring vital global issues, and producing groundbreaking works by Indigenous and culturally diverse filmmakers, will be on display at the 2018 DOXA Documentary Film Festival (May 3–13) with Velcrow Ripper and Nova Ami’s feature documentary Metamorphosis (Clique Pictures/Transparent Film/NFB), the short films To Wake Up the Nakota Language by Louise BigEagle and Three Thousand by Asinnajaq, as well as a special screening of Vancouver filmmaker and producer Selwyn Jacob’s The Road Taken.

In collaboration with INIS, Réalisatrices Équitables and FCTMN. NFB LAUNCHES LES FEMMES DE MÉTIERS ON APRIL 16 . Discussion series aims to inspire more women to pursue careers in the film industry.

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), is launching Les femmes de métiers, a series of four conversations offering an invaluable and up-close look at the experiences of women artists in the film industry.

A virtual-reality dream generator. Philippe Lambert’s VR experience Dream (NFB) will have its world premiere, free of charge, at the MUTEK_IMG Forum for Digital Creation, presented at Montreal’s Phi Centre. Also available online as of April 10 at nfb.ca/dream

Dream is musician Philippe Lambert’s first virtual reality work as a director. Beginning April 10, the 10-minute creation will be available online all over the world, in 2D and 3D WebVR, at nfb.ca/dream. Dream will have its world premiere at the fourth MUTEK_IMG Forum for Digital Creation, taking place April 10 to 13 at the Phi Centre as part of the official lineup of events at this year’s Montréal Digital Spring. Visitors to this free presentation at MUTEK_IMG will be able to experience the VR work lying down, engaging fully in the creators’ virtual dreamscapes.

Five premieres among 21 NFB documentaries showcased at Hot Docs 2018. Powerful new features, immersive and interactive docs, a special anniversary for a First Nations doc classic, plus a retrospective.

This year’s lineup of National Film Board of Canada (NFB) documentaries at the Hot Docs Canadian International Documentary Festival (April 26–May 6, 2018) showcases diverse stories of people facing life’s biggest challenges—with premieres of five major new feature documentaries in the festival’s Canadian Spectrum program.

An NFB production in association with Le Devoir, Phi and Dpt. World premiere as a VR installation at the Phi Centre on March 27. Roxham, an immersive documentary from world-renowned photographer Michel Huneault, available for viewing online from anywhere in the world in VR and 360-degree at nfb.ca/roxham as of March 24. Experience the passage of asylum seekers at the Canadian border.

The immersive documentary Roxham will make its world premiere as a virtual reality (VR) installation in Particles of Existence, an exhibition of 10 first-class immersive works at Montreal’s Phi Centre from March 27 to August 12, 2018. As of March 24, the work (which is approximately 15 minutes long) can also be viewed in both English and French online in VR and 360-degree at nfb.ca/roxham.

Deadline for applications is April 13. NFB and LJH Films put out call for short documentary ideas by Nunatsiavummiut creators with Labrador Doc Project. Three participants will be chosen to direct their own short films in Nunatsiavut— plus opportunities for applicants in a wide range of filmmaking positions

The National Film Board of Canada’s Quebec and Atlantic Studio and LJH Films are reaching out to emerging and established Nunatsiavummiut filmmakers from or in Labrador who have an interest in documentary storytelling, with a call for submissions for the Labrador Doc Project.

NFB SHORT FILMS IN COMPETITION AT ANNECY INTERNATIONAL ANIMATED FILM FESTIVAL. Lineup includes highly anticipated return of Oscar-winning filmmakers Alison Snowden and David Fine, as well as Justine Vuylsteker’s Étreintes, the first film made using the “Épinette,” a restored French pinscreen-animation device.

From June 11 to 16, 2018, the National Film Board of Canada is taking part in the Annecy International Animated Film Festival, with five shorts in competition. The NFB roster includes the return of renowned filmmakers Alison Snowden and David Fine with Animal Behaviour (Zoothérapie). Premiering at Annecy, Justine Vuylsteker’s Étreintes (Offshore/NFB) is the first film made on the “Épinette,” a recently restored French pinscreen-animation device. Patrick Bouchard returns to the festival with the international premiere of Le sujet (NFB), while Elizabeth Hobbs’s film I’m OK (Elizabeth Hobbs/Animate Projects/NFB) will be having its world premiere. Screening in the Perspectives section, Un printemps by Keyu Chen (NFB) rounds out the NFB’s lineup of shorts, which features mostly women filmmakers—with a diverse range of skills, employing a variety of techniques, and backed by several female producers. The complete Annecy Festival program will be announced at a press conference on April 23.