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.
The Department of Education and Early Childhood Development is teaming up with the National Film Board of Canada and the Conférence des ministres de l’éducation des États et gouvernements de la Francophonie (conference of ministers of education of states and governments that are members of La Francophonie) to create the Raconte-moi ta francophonie (tell me about your Francophonie) international challenge.
This afternoon, in the Giardini di Castello at the Biennale Architettura 2018 in Venice, Italy, representatives from the National Gallery of Canada, the Embassy of Canada to Italy, the National Gallery of Canada Foundation, and project patron, Reesa Greenberg, unveiled the meticulously restored and refurbished Canada Pavilion. Built in 1957–58 by the National Gallery of Canada, the Pavilion has featured nearly 60 years of exhibitions by renowned Canadian artists and architects.
The National Film Board of Canada (NFB) and its co-producers won three awards at last night’s 9th NUMIX awards gala: the FMC Grand Prize and the Immersive Production Award (Cultural Production Category) went to Karim Ben Khelifa’s The Enemy (Camera Lucida Productions/France Télévisions/NFB/Dpt./Emissive) while Carrier Pigeon by Folklore (NFB/ARTE France, in partnership with IDFA DocLab) won the Digital Work Award (Cultural Production Category).
The winners of the 10th Tremplin competition, organized by the National Film Board of Canada (NFB) in collaboration with Radio-Canada, are Nathalie Hébert from Scoudouc (New Brunswick) and Josiane Blanc from Toronto (Ontario). Putting women filmmakers front and centre, this year’s winners were selected from among nine finalists in the cross-Canada contest, which is open to emerging francophone filmmakers from minority communities. The winning films will be broadcast on ICI RADIO-CANADA TÉLÉ, which has partnered with Tremplin since 2007.
Samara Grace Chadwick’s doc 1999 screening in Caraquet, followed by a broadcast on Radio-Canada Acadie
The National Film Board of Canada’s Quebec and Atlantic Studio, and LJH Films, have announced the final participants in Labrador Doc Project—a new initiative for Inuit from, or based in, Labrador who have an interest in documentary storytelling.