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.

Finalists announced in 10th Tremplin competition for up-and-coming French-speaking filmmakers from outside of Quebec. Filmmakers from Acadie, Ontario, Alberta and British Columbia among the nine finalists for Tremplin, launched by the NFB in collaboration with Radio-Canada

The names of nine finalists were announced today for the 10th Concours Tremplin, a competition launched by the National Film Board of Canada in collaboration with Radio-Canada, aimed at emerging filmmakers from Canadian francophone minority communities outside of Quebec. With women accounting for the lion’s share this year, the finalists are Emmanuelle Chapados (Memramcook, New Brunswick), Nathalie Hébert (Scoudouc, New Brunswick), Sylvio Belliveau (Memramcook, New Brunswick), Josiane Blanc (Toronto, Ontario), Sophie Houle-Drapeau (Sudbury, Ontario), Ania Jamila (Ridgeway, Ontario), Nassima Way (Calgary, Alberta), Yoann Priolet (Delta, British Columbia) and Camille Vernet (New Westminster, British Columbia). Submissions came in from francophone communities outside of Quebec across the country. Finalists will attend workshops on March 19 and 20, then submit their projects to a jury for final deliberation in May, with the winning works to be broadcast on ICI RADIO-CANADA TÉLÉ. Radio-Canada has partnered with the NFB on Tremplin since 2007.

In 10th year of partnership, NFB GGPAA collection will reach 84 films. Eight new National Film Board of Canada shorts to celebrate Governor General’s Performing Arts Awards laureates.

For the 10th 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 26th annual Awards Gala, taking place June 2, 2018, at the National Arts Centre in Ottawa.

NFB to open its Talent Bank to professional associations in a bid to promote women creators

Adopting a concrete strategy for increasing the number of women creators in Canada’s audiovisual industry, the National Film Board of Canada has announced that it will make its Talent Bank for female professionals accessible to Réalisatrices Équitables (RÉ), Femmes du cinéma, de la télévision et des médias numériques (FCTMN) and Film Fatales. Talks aimed at reaching a similar agreement are also underway with the Vancouver, Alberta, Toronto and Atlantic chapters of Women in Film and Television. These partnerships will increase the impact of the database, bringing its profiles to the greatest number of industry players.