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.
An uncompromising cinematic journey alongside the living and the dying inside Edmonton's world-renowned Alberta Transplant Institute, the feature-length documentary Memento mori makes its hometown premiere at the Metro Cinema, on Thursday, November 10, at 7 p.m. and Sunday, November 13, at 1 p.m.
On October 26 starting at 1:30 p.m. (EDT), a new National Film Board of Canada (NFB) Virtual Classroom will explore how different religious practices co-exist in multicultural Canada.
Devour! The Food Film Fest in Wolfville, Nova Scotia (November 2‒6, 2016), is featuring four new National Film Board of Canada (NFB) documentaries exploring our relationship with food and game, all screening at the Al Whittle Theatre.
The PEI premiere of John Hopkins' documentary Bluefin is part of a stellar selection of five National Film Board of Canada (NFB) films at the 2nd annual Charlottetown Film Festival, taking place at the City Cinema from October 28 to 30.
The National Film Board of Canada (NFB) is back this year at the Montreal International Documentary Festival (RIDM), November 10 to 20, with a diverse selection of 13 films by talented auteurs. Santiago Bertolino's Freelancer on the Front Lines (NFB) will have its world premiere as the festival's closing film. The features Gulîstan, Land of Roses (Périphéria Productions/Mîtosfilm/NFB) by Zaynê Akyol and Angry Inuk (NFB/Unikkaat Studios/EyeSteelFilm) by Alethea Arnanuq-Baril will have their Quebec premieres and screen in competition. Also competing is Philippe David Gagné's short film Dialogue(s) (NFB/La bande Sonimage). We Can't Make the Same Mistake Twice, the new NFB-produced documentary by the renowned Alanis Obomsawin, will have its Quebec premiere as a special presentation, and the filmmaker will be taking part in a panel entitled "Indigenous Videographers Shoot Back."
To mark International Animation Day, the NFB invites everyone to view more than 25 recent animated short films free of charge as part of the 10th-anniversary edition of GET ANIMATED!, which runs from October 17 to 31.
To mark International Animation Day, the NFB invites everyone to view more than 25 recent animated short films free of charge as part of the 10th-anniversary edition of GET ANIMATED!, which runs from October 17 to 31.
Steve Patry's new documentary feature Waseskun, produced by Nathalie Cloutier and Denis McCready at the National Film Board of Canada (NFB), will have additional screenings at the Cinémathèque québécoise on October 18, 19 and 20 at 8:30 p.m., with Patry or producer Denis McCready at each one. The film will be shown in its original version, with French and English dialogue and French subtitles.
The National Film Board of Canada (NFB) and the Canadian Film Centre's Media Lab (CFC Media Lab) are pleased to present the world premiere of Invisible World: The VR Experience at the Festival du nouveau cinéma in Montreal. This groundbreaking virtual reality narrative short film will also screen in competition for the inaugural $10,000 Grand Prix for Innovation. Taking place at Grande Place au Complexe Desjardins, as part of the La Grande Place Virtuelle program, the interactive immersive film will screen at 12 noon each day beginning Saturday, October 8 through October 15, 2016. A mobile app and website component will launch later this fall.
Virtual Reality (VR) is capturing the imagination of documentary storytellers, journalists and visual artists all over the world who are eager to embrace an immersive medium that pushes new boundaries in non-fiction storytelling.
The documentary feature Theater of Life (Théâtre de la vie), directed by Montreal filmmaker Peter Svatek and co-produced by Triplex Films and the National Film Board of Canada (NFB) in association with Phi Films, will screen on October 8 at the 45th Festival du nouveau cinéma (FNC) in Montreal. The festival runs October 5 to 16. The film will then open in Montreal theatres on December 23, screening with French subtitles at Cinéma Beaubien and English subtitles at Cinéma du Parc. Theater of Life follows renowned Italian chef Massimo Bottura as he goes on a mission to feed the disenfranchised in a remarkable soup kitchen, using food waste from the 2015 Milan World Expo. The doc received the Tokyo Gohan Award at the San Sebastian Film Festival in Spain and has been selected to screen at festivals in Canada (Atlantic Film Festival, Planet in Focus, Devour! The Food Film Fest) and abroad (Mill Valley and Flatirons in the US, as well as the Haifa, Rio, and Warsaw festivals).
The NFB-produced Freelancer on the Front Lines (Un journaliste au front) by Santiago Bertolino (Red Square on a Blackboard, 2013, co-directed with Hugo Samson) will have its world premiere as the closing film of the Montreal International Documentary Festival (RIDM), taking place November 10 to 20, 2016. The feature documentary tracks Canadian reporter Jesse Rosenfeld through Egypt, Israel, the occupied Palestinian territories and Iraq, exploring the complex world of a freelance journalist working in various warzones, while stressing the importance of independent and critical reporting in an ever-shifting media landscape.