Acclaimed at film festivals at home and abroad, Peter Svatek's feature documentary Theater of Life begins a theatrical tour December 3 in Toronto, bringing an inside look at a unique social and culinary experiment to cities across Canada.
On November 21 at 7 p.m., the Vancouver Aquarium is offering an evening of National Film Board of Canada films, with two new NFB documentaries that explore Canada's struggling Atlantic cod and bluefin tuna fisheries.
Tiffany Hsiung's award-winning National Film Board of Canada (NFB) feature documentary The Apology is coming to Toronto and Vancouver this December, with a one-week run at the Hot Docs Ted Rogers Cinema starting December 2 and screenings at the Vancity Theatre in Vancouver on December 3 and 4.
Hsiung will be present to take questions from the audience in Toronto on December 6 and 8, with Q&As at both Vancouver screenings as well.
Steve Patry's new feature-length documentary Waseskun, produced by Nathalie Cloutier and Denis McCready at the National Film Board of Canada (NFB), will screen at the Cinéma Paraloeil in Rimouski on Tuesday, November 29, at 7:30 p.m., with the director in attendance. The film will be shown in its original version, with French and English dialogue and French subtitles.This event marks the launch of a series of planned screenings in various regions of Quebec, following the film's world premiere at the Festival de cinéma de la ville de Québec and its theatrical release and added screenings in Montreal.
The National Film Board of Canada's pioneering work in new forms of non-fiction storytelling will be on display at the International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam (IDFA), taking place November 16‒27. The 10th edition of IDFA's DocLab new media program offers a preview of a VR version of the multi-award-winning Bear 71 and a live laboratory for the upcoming project Dreams, while Mark Lewis's innovative feature film Invention (Mark Lewis Studio/NFB/Soda Film + Art) has been selected by IDFA for its film program.
On November 10 in Toronto, the Cardboard Crash virtual reality experience, created by Vincent McCurley and the NFB's Digital Studio in Vancouver, picked up a Digi Award for Mobile Entertainment. This is the 11th Digi Award won by an NFB production. Cardboard Crash was first previewed in the DocLab program of the International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam (IDFA) in 2015 and then appeared in the New Frontier section of Sundance in 2016. It also received a Webby Award in April 2016 in the Online Film & Video – VR: Gaming, Interactive, or Real-time (Branded) category. The project is produced and executive produced by Loc Dao for the NFB.
The National Film Board of Canada (NFB) is taking part in the 15th Sommets du cinéma d'animation, November 23 to 27 in Montreal, with a rich selection of 11 films reflecting diverse perspectives and artistic approaches. For the first time, the festival's opening night program will consist entirely of two films co-produced at the NFB, with the filmmakers in attendance: the Quebec premiere of the feature-length Window Horses / La vie en Rosie (Stickgirl Productions/NFB) by Ann Marie Fleming, and the world premiere of the short Je ne sens plus rien / I Don't Feel Anything Anymore (Zorobabel/NFB), by Belgian filmmakers Carl Roosens and Noémie Marsily. Three shorts are screening in the international competition: J'aime les filles / I Like Girls by Diane Obomsawin (Quebec premiere), I Am Here / Je suis ici by Eoin Duffy, and We Drink Too Much by Chris Lavis and Maciek Szczerbowski. "Une journée avec Diane Obomsawin," a rare opportunity to attend a master class given by the filmmaker, will take place on Thursday, November 24. Two other NFB productions have also been selected for the festival's first-ever very short film competition: Poupons / Pumpers by Pascaline Lefebvre and Mindfork / Tête-Mêle by Catherine Dubeau.
The National Film Board of Canada (NFB) and Québec Cinéma applaud the awarding of the 2016 Prix Albert-Tessier to Alanis Obomsawin, the first Indigenous woman filmmaker in Quebec, today recognized worldwide as one of Canada's greatest documentarians. Obomsawin is the first Indigenous filmmaker to receive this honour, which will be presented to her on November 9 during a ceremony at the Parliament Building in Quebec City. The Prix Albert-Tessier-Quebec's highest distinction in cinema, and one of the 14 Prix du Québec awarded each year-crowns Obomsawin's career and recognizes her contribution to Quebec cinema.
When 89-year-old hairdresser Mabel Robinson of Hubbards, Nova Scotia agreed to become the subject of a new National Film Board of Canada (NFB) short documentary by director Teresa MacInnes, she had no idea it would mean becoming an online sensation.
The National Film Board of Canada (NFB) and the Centre franco-ontarien de ressources pédagogiques (CFORP) are pooling their respective expertise to develop educational platforms and content.
Olivier D. Asselin's feature documentary Pipelines, pouvoir et démocratie (Pipelines, Power and Democracy) will be available across Canada in download-to-own (DTO) and video-on-demand (VOD) formats at NFB.ca and the iTunes Store starting November 1. DVD copies can also be purchased at NFB.ca or by phone at 1-800-267-7710. The film has screened in theatres as well as at Canadian and European festivals, and has been enjoying a highly successful tour throughout Quebec since February 2016 (more than 100 screenings in 35 cities to date). Produced at the National Film Board of Canada (NFB) by Denis McCready and executive producer Colette Loumède, the documentary was shot over two and a half years, from fall 2012 to spring 2015, capturing an important moment in the social struggles marking Quebec's recent history: the plan to bring unconventional oil from Alberta's oil sands to Quebec via two pipelines.
The National Film Board of Canada (NFB), in collaboration with the OBORO artist centre and Wapikoni Mobile, is holding a creative lab called Déranger for young and established francophone multidisciplinary artists from First Nations and Inuit communities. From November 6 to 10, seven artists (Caroline Monnet, Geronimo Inutiq, Sébastien Aubin, Eruoma Awashish, Meky Ottawa, Jani Bellefleur-Kaltush and Ludovic Boney) will team up at the OBORO centre in Montreal to develop three prototypes of media artworks. Mentoring sessions will be given by artists Marc Séguin and Hannah Claus and gallery owner Pierre-François Ouellette.
The National Film Board of Canada (NFB) explores the storytelling potential of Instagram with What Brings Us Here, a companion piece to the award-winning short documentary film this river.
The National Film Board of Canada (NFB) and imagineNATIVE Film + Media Arts Festival announced on October 22 that the interactive project Red Card by Cara Mumford is the 2016 winner of the NFB/imagineNATIVE Interactive Partnership program, which aims to support new forms of Indigenous artistic expression and offers Canadian Aboriginal artists an opportunity to create audacious, innovative and socially relevant new media works.
The National Film Board of Canada (NFB) presents the world premiere of veteran director Rodolphe Caron's new film, Simplement Viola (Uniquely Viola), which opens the Festival international du cinéma francophone en Acadie (FICFA). The documentary screens on November 10 at 8:00 p.m. at the Capitol Theatre with the director present, along with NFB Chairperson Claude Joli-Coeur and the great Viola Léger herself.