Vibrant new NFB productions will be launched in August: Audrey Nantel-Gagnon’s short Fire-Jo-Ball will be online as of August 2 and the documentary series Sounds & Pressure: Reggae in a Foreign Land, by Graeme Mathieson and Chris Flanagan, will have its premiere on nfb.ca on August 23, the day after a special launch event in Toronto.
At the height of the golden age of reggae, some of Jamaica’s brightest stars left their homeland to relocate to Toronto. Now their stories and the musical community they helped build are celebrated in Graeme Mathieson and Chris Flanagan’s captivating National Film Board of Canada (NFB) anthology series Sounds & Pressure: Reggae in a Foreign Land, premiering August 23 on nfb.ca and the NFB’s streaming platform for smart TVs.
Michael Mabbott and Lucah Rosenberg-Lee’s award-winning Banger Films/National Film Board of Canada (NFB) feature documentary Any Other Way: The Jackie Shane Story is opening in cinemas across Canada beginning August 16, distributed by the NFB.
Seven National Film Board of Canada (NFB) short films celebrating Canadian performing arts excellence will premiere online Saturday, June 8, at 9 p.m. ET, immediately following the 2024 Governor General’s Performing Arts Awards (GGPAA) Gala at Ottawa’s National Arts Centre.
This June, more films than ever will be streaming for free at nfb.ca. The lineup of works from different regions of the country includes special programming to mark National Indigenous History Month. Among the new offerings: the online launch of Our Maternal Home, directed by Janine Windolph, and the Haida-language version of Now Is the Time (Waaydanaa) by Christopher Auchter. In addition, two rich themed channels curated around Indigenous subjects will feature more than 40 films. Lastly, the seven short films produced by the NFB in tribute to the 2024 Governor General’s Performing Arts Awards (GGPAA) laureates will also be launched online.
The National Film Board of Canada will take part in this year’s Annecy International Animation Film Festival (June 9–15) with a strong, diverse lineup of 11 productions and co-productions, screening across a wide range of sections at the event. Four films have been selected for various competitions, including Torill Kove’s Maybe Elephants (Mikrofilm/NFB), which will be having its world premiere. In addition, Michèle Lemieux, a virtuoso with the Alexeïeff-Parker pinscreen, will present her latest short, Le tableau (The Painting).
With the iconic restaurant on the ninth floor of Montreal’s Eaton Centre set to reopen to the public on May 17, the NFB is streaming Catherine Martin’s 1998 documentary Les dames du 9e (Gala Film/NFB) online at onf.ca (in French) for free. This evocative film invites us to rediscover a unique place.
Beginning today, six eclectic animated shorts from the 14th edition of the National Film Board of Canada’s Hothouse program for emerging animators are available online worldwide at nfb.ca and on the NFB app.
The Academy Museum of Motion Pictures in Los Angeles will showcase legendary National Film Board of Canada (NFB) animation beginning May 12—with Norman McLaren and Evelyn Lambart’s Begone Dull Care and Ishu Patel’s Paradise featured as part of Inventing Worlds and Characters: Animation. The gallery takes visitors on a journey through animation, highlighting nearly a century of animation history, as told through the stories of diverse filmmakers.
Fresh from its North American premiere at Hot Docs, Toronto-based Anishinaabe filmmaker Lisa Jackson’s Wilfred Buck is opening in cinemas across Canada, distributed by the National Film Board of Canada (NFB).
The National Film Board of Canada (NFB) is featuring powerful and thought-provoking free programming on nfb.ca throughout the month of May.
The feature-length documentary Graver l’homme: arrêt sur Pierre Hébert (Scratches of Life: The Art of Pierre Hébert), directed by Loïc Darses, will open on Sunday, May 12, at the Cinémathèque québécoise in Montreal, following its world premiere as the closing film of the Sommets du cinéma d’animation.
The NFB is making an impressive return to Montreal’s Sommets du cinéma d’animation (May 6–11), with 11 productions and co-productions screening as world premieres—including Le tableau (The Painting), by Michèle Lemieux, made with the famous Alexeïeff-Parker pinscreen, and LOCA, by Véronique Paquette.
In the context of a constantly changing and evolving industry, the NFB is undertaking a major modernization initiative that’s expected to lead to a significant increase in funds budgeted for production.
Vancouver’s DOXA Documentary Film Festival (May 2–12) will feature extraordinary stories from across Canada with a selection of five deeply personal National Film Board of Canada (NFB) produced and co-produced documentaries.