Starting October 5, The Enemy, the virtual-reality (VR) experience by internationally renowned photojournalist Karim Ben Khelifa, will be available worldwide in French and English as an augmented-reality (AR) app on the Apple Store and Google Play, where it can be downloaded for free. Developed by the Montreal-based digital creation studio Dpt. and the National Film Board of Canada, it has a running time of approximately 50 minutes and is one of the very first apps to use ARKit features for iOS 11 and ARCore features for Android, offering a totally new level of augmented reality that allows interaction with the real world like never before. The creator, Karim Ben Khelifa, will be in Montreal on September 28 and 29 for the app’s official launch and to present the project to the media. The Enemy comprises two components: the AR app and the multiuser VR museum installation. This international documentary co-production uses unprecedented, powerful encounters with real combatants from opposing camps to show that both sides are, in fact, more alike than different. The Enemy is co-produced by Camera Lucida Productions, France Télévisions, the NFB, Dpt. and Emissive.
September 26, 2017 – Montreal – National Film Board of Canada (NFB) The National Film Board of Canada returns to the Festival du...
Since its world premiere last Monday, Expo 67 Live by multidisciplinary artist Karine Lanoie-Brien has drawn more than 1,000 spectators to the Place des Arts Esplanade every night. Fifty years down the road, viewers can experience the Montreal World’s Fair as if they were actually there! Joining event ambassador Louise Latraverse to inaugurate the larger-than-life production were Denis Coderre, Gilbert Rozon, Oliver Jones, Michelle Sweeney and a host of other personalities.
On the heels of its new three-year plan to redefine its relationship with Indigenous peoples, the National Film Board of Canada will be at the imagineNATIVE Film + Media Arts Festival (October 18-22) with a stellar selection of 13 film and digital works by Indigenous creators, including both opening and closing night films.
Named Best Canadian Feature Documentary at Hot Docs 2017, Charles Officer’s powerful National Film Board of Canada production Unarmed Verses returns to the big screen in Toronto at the Hot Docs Ted Rogers Cinema, 506 Bloor St. W., starting Friday, October 6. There will be a Q&A with producer Lea Marin and guests from the film on opening night, October 6; and with director Charles Officer and guests from the film following the 8:30 p.m. screening on Monday, October 9.
Tonight, dive into the heart of Expo 67 and experience it as if you were really there! The National Film Board of Canada is launching Expo 67 Live, a cinematic storytelling experience created entirely with archival treasures from around the world. This epic experience, which features 52-foot-high images and spatial audio, will be projected onto several surfaces, including the exterior walls of Salle Wilfrid-Pelletier and the Maison Symphonique. This journey through the greatest moments of Expo 67 is presented in collaboration with Radio-Canada and Place des Arts, and is part of the official programming lineup for the 375th anniversary of Montreal. The project was conceived and directed by Karine Lanoie-Brien and produced at the NFB by executive producer René Chénier to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the Montreal World’s Fair. In addition to the director and producer, Expo 67 Live ambassador Louise Latraverse will be available to give interviews about her memories of Expo 67 and the vibrant era that produced it. Expo 67 Live will be presented free of charge starting tonight, September 18, until September 30, beginning at 7:30 p.m. There will be four screenings nightly.
The BC premiere of Haida filmmaker Christopher Auchter’s National Film Board of Canada animated short The Mountain of SGaana is part of a rich selection of NFB animation, long-form documentary and virtual reality works at the 2017 Vancouver International Film Festival (VIFF), which runs September 28 to October 13.
A leader in auteur animation for over 75 years, the NFB has 12 new short films showcased at the 2017 Ottawa International Animation Festival (OIAF), including eight in official competition: Matthew Rankin’s THE TESLA WORLD LIGHT; Chintis Lundgren’s Manivald; Eva Cvijanovic’s Hedgehog’s Home; Christopher Auchter’s The Mountain of SGaana; Malcolm Sutherland’s Simulated Life; and three films by Chris Lavis and Maciek Szczerbowski: We Drink Too Much, We Eat Shit and Square Saint-Louis.
Dive into the heart of Expo 67 and experience it as if you were really there! The National Film Board of Canada is launching Expo 67 Live, a cinematic storytelling experience created entirely with archival treasures from around the world. This epic experience, which features 52-foot-high images and spatial audio, will be projected onto several surfaces, including the exterior walls of Salle Wilfrid-Pelletier and the Maison Symphonique. This journey through the greatest moments of Expo 67 is presented in collaboration with Radio-Canada and Place des Arts, and is part of the official programming lineup for the 375th anniversary of Montreal. The project was conceived and directed by Karine Lanoie-Brien and produced at the NFB by executive producer René Chénier to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the Montreal World’s Fair. In addition to the director and producer, Expo 67 Live ambassador Louise Latraverse will be available to give interviews about her memories of Expo 67 and the vibrant era that produced it. Expo 67 Live will be presented free of charge from September 18 to 30, beginning at 7:30 p.m. every evening.
Powerful new documentary and animated works from the National Film Board of Canada’s award-winning North West Studio in Edmonton will be showcased at the 31st Edmonton International Film Festival (September 28 to October 7) with Birth of a Family, Tasha Hubbard’s moving look at First Nations siblings reunited decades after Canada’s infamous Sixties Scoop, and Kevin D. A. Kurytnik and Carol Beecher’s Skin for Skin (NFB/Fifteen Pound Pink Productions), a dark tale of greed and spiritual reckoning during the early days of the North American fur trade.
The world premiere of Calgary director Cam Christiansen’s much-anticipated animated feature WALL exploring both sides of the Israel/Palestine separation barrier, written by and featuring Oscar nominee David Hare; Skin for Skin, a dark tale of greed and spiritual reckoning from the early days of the fur trade by Calgary’s Kevin D.A. Kurytnik and Carol Beecher; Saskatchewan filmmaker Tasha Hubbard’s moving Birth of a Family, following siblings reunited decades after Canada’s infamous Sixties Scoop; plus Our People Will Be Healed, the 50th film from Alanis Obomsawin in the 50th year of a legendary filmmaking career—the National Film Board of Canada is offering up powerful storytelling and innovative cinematic visions at the 2017 Calgary International Film Festival, taking place September 20 to October 1.
The National Film Board of Canada (NFB) will return to the Quebec City Film Festival (QCFF) this year with eight short films exploring a wide variety of styles and subjects. Quebec City audiences will have a chance to view Chroniques du 9e art (Comic Strip Chronicles) (Canal+/Sacrebleu Productions/NFB), a quartet of witty animated shorts that will be making their North American premiere before screening on the NFB’s online platforms and airing in French on ICI ARTV. Kevin D. A. Kurytnik and Carol Beecher’s mythical look at the fur trade, Skin for Skin (J’aurai ta peau…) (NFB), will be presented in competition at the festival, while Threads (Rubans) (Mikrofilm AS/NFB), the latest film by Oscar-winning animator Torill Kove, will make its Quebec premiere. Two documentaries from the 5 Shorts Project, Carrière (Stone Makers) by Jean-Marc E. Roy and Dialogue(s) by Philippe David Gagné (NFB/La bande Sonimage), have also been selected. The QCFF will run from September 13 to 23, 2017. All films will be screened in French.
The NFB, in partnership with imagineNATIVE, is proud to continue supporting Indigenous artists in Canada’s interactive-media field.
The 50th film from Alanis Obomsawin in the 50th year of her legendary filmmaking career, a powerful look by first-time director Attiya Khan and Lawrence Jackman at how healing can happen when men take responsibility for their domestic abuse, and a musical documentary from Marie Clements connecting key moments in the history of First Nations activism—the National Film Board of Canada lineup at the Atlantic Film Festival (September 14–21, 2017) features stories that touch us and inspire, and help to change us as individuals and as a country.
There’s a mountain ridge named for him, as well as two creeks, a school and a building on the campus of the Southern Alberta Institute of Technology (SAIT); he’s been commemorated with his own stamp by Canada Post—but what do we really know about the legendary Black Alberta cowboy and rancher John Ware?