The National Film Board of Canada (NFB) returns to the Quebec City Film Festival (QCFF), a major film event that runs from September 13 to 22, 2018, with the world premiere of Pauline Julien, intime et politique (Pauline Julien, intimate and political), directed by Pascale Ferland and produced by the NFB in collaboration with Radio-Canada.
Two acclaimed National Film Board of Canada (NFB) documentaries are being featured at the Toronto Palestine Film Festival (September 20 to 23) with the Toronto premiere of writer David Hare and director Cam Christiansen’s animated feature WALL, and a screening of Toronto filmmaker Christy Garland’s award-winning co-production What Walaa Wants (Murmur Media/NFB/Final Cut for Real).
There’s an impressive selection of six National Film Board of Canada (NFB) films at the 2018 FIN Atlantic International Film Festival (September 13 – 20).
Beginning August 9, HTC Vive VR headset users can experience an absurdist mind-and-body romp through the highest clouds to the ocean deep when they download the National Film Board of Canada (NFB) VR adventure game Museum of Symmetry for free from Steam and Viveport.
Wind Instrument, an interactive installation by Étienne Paquette, co-produced by the NFB, the Quartier des spectacles Partnership and LA SERRE – arts vivants, will be on display from August 16 to October 8 in front of Saint-Laurent Metro station in downtown Montreal. This large-scale work (featuring six steel tubes with a maximum height of 28 feet) creates music by reacting to variations in ambient sound, while incorporating the contributions of passersby as well.
The NFB at Festival Stop Motion Montréal 2018. Strong lineup of seven NFB productions or co-productions in competition, including the world premiere of Sylvie Trouvé and Dayle Hayward’s Bone Mother.
Coming at a moment of profound political and social crisis, Astra Taylor’s latest National Film Board of Canada (NFB) feature documentary, What Is Democracy?, makes its North American premiere at the 2018 Toronto International Film Festival. It will be joined at TIFF by two new NFB animated shorts: Animal Behaviour, from the Oscar-winning animation duo of Alison Snowden and David Fine, who just received the Grand Prix at Rio de Janeiro’s Anima Mundi; as well as The Subject, the latest stop-motion marvel from Quebec’s Patrick Bouchard.
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.