Following on its announcement last year that by 2019, 50 percent of its productions will be directed by women and 50 percent of all production spending will be allocated to films directed by women, the National Film Board of Canada (NFB) is taking its commitment to parity even further.
The National Film Board of Canada (NFB) is pleased to announce the San Francisco premiere of its documentary Bluefin at the 14th annual International Ocean Film Festival, taking place
March 9–12, 2017. Directed by John Hopkins, Bluefin is the winner of the 2017 IOFF Wildlife Award and screens on Saturday, March 11, as part of the festival’s Canada Program.
The National Film Board of Canada (NFB) will be joining the Rendez-vous de la Francophonie (RVF) festivities for the 12th consecutive year, from March 2 to 22, 2017. This is the 19th edition of the ambitious RVF tour, which supports the key NFB objective of making its works as accessible to the public as possible. The RVF will travel to the country’s 10 provinces and three territories, bringing French-speaking and francophile communities together around three NFB film programs designed for audiences of all ages.
Rodolphe Caron’s feature documentary Uniquely Viola will be available for free streaming at NFB.ca starting Thursday, March 2, the day after its Quebec premiere at the Rendez-vous du cinéma québécois festival (RVCQ). This intimate portrait of actor Viola Léger, renowned for her performances as “La Sagouine,” will also be available to purchase via download-to-own on the same date. Uniquely Viola was produced at the NFB by Jac Gautreau and Maryse Chapdelaine of the Canadian Francophonie Studio-Acadie, with Dominic Desjardins as executive producer, and with the collaboration of Radio-Canada.
Denver, February 22, 2017 – Two Canadian leaders in virtual reality and immersive storytelling―the National Film Board of Canada (NFB)...
As Canada marks the 150th anniversary of Confederation, the National Film Board of Canada (NFB) is offering up special online programming and public events across the country that put Canadians in touch with their nation’s stories.
As the Academy Awards approach, Canadians will be able to watch Theodore Ushev’s Oscar-nominated National Film Board of Canada (NFB) animated short Blind Vaysha free of charge at NFB.ca―starting February 19 right up to the Academy Awards on February 26―and then tune in to see if Canada takes home the Oscar.
Steve Patry’s new feature-length documentary Waseskun, produced by the National Film Board of Canada (NFB), will screen at the OFF Festival cinéma du monde de Sherbrooke on Thursday, February 23. The screening will take place at 7 p.m. at Salle le Tremplin with the director in attendance. Shot in an alternative detention centre run by Indigenous people for members of Indigenous communities, the film has just received two Canadian Screen Award nominations: the Ted Rogers Best Feature Length Documentary award and Best Editing in a Feature Length Documentary (for editor Nathalie Lamoureux). Waseskun is produced by Nathalie Cloutier and Denis McCready with executive producer Colette Loumède.
The National Film Board of Canada (NFB) wishes to congratulate animation filmmaker Michèle Cournoyer, who has received a Governor General’s Award in Visual and Media Arts in recognition of her exceptional career. She and the other winners of this year’s award will each receive a medallion and a cash prize of $25,000.
Spring Break can seem to last forever—especially if the kids are bored. But no need to panic: the NFB is there to lend a helping hand with nfb.ca/springbreak, a playlist of 40 films specially chosen for fun family viewing, available for free streaming from February 27 to March 31. The playlist includes three films that will be exclusively available for this limited time in Canada and the US, free of charge. These three recent animated shorts are Me and My Moulton, by Torill Kove (Mikrofilm AS/NFB), nominated for an Oscar in 2015; Molly in the Springtime, by Pierre-Luc Granjon (Divertissement Subséquence/Piwi+/Folimage/NFB); and Big Mouth, by Andrea Dorfman (NFB).
The National Film Board of Canada (NFB) is back at the Festival international du film pour enfants de Montréal (FIFEM) with two animated shorts in competition: Patrick Péris’s Nadine, in its world premiere, and Diane Obomsawin’s J’aime les filles (I Like Girls), which returns to Montreal after winning two major awards since its world premiere at the Ottawa International Animation Festival and being nominated for a Canadian Screen Award. J’aime les filles will also be shown in a program of short films for kids aged 10 and up, followed by a discussion with the director. Both films offer humourous and whimsical explorations of first love. The 20th FIFEM will take place from March 4 to 12, 2017, during spring break. [Note that all films will screen in French.]
The National Film Board of Canada (NFB) is pleased to announce that on the eve of its Berlinale premiere the NFB doc Angry Inuk (NFB/Unikkaat Studios, in association with EyeSteelFilm), by Alethea Arnaquq-Baril, has won the 2017 Santa Barbara International Film Festival’s Social Justice Award for Documentary Film.
The National Film Board of Canada (NFB) is making groundbreaking, immersive virtual reality experiences more accessible than ever―starting with a VR reinvention of its multi-award-winning interactive doc Bear 71, now available free on Chrome as Bear 71 VR.
The National Film Board of Canada (NFB) returns to the Rendez-vous du cinéma québécois (RVCQ) with 12 films, nine of which will be in competition. They include the animated short Vaysha l’aveugle (Blind Vaysha) by Theodore Ushev, nominated for an Oscar this year; the world premiere of the documentary short La dernière clé (The Last Key) by Julien Capraro, produced as part of the Tremplin competition by the NFB in collaboration with ICI Radio-Canada Télé; and the Quebec premiere of Simplement Viola (Uniquely Viola) by Rodolphe Caron. The NFB is also participating in the RVCQ’s Rendez-vous Pro event with the interactive documentary Streamers by Guillaume Braun, due for release in the coming months. The 35th RVCQ will take place from February 22 to March 4, 2017.
Nine Canadian films will soon be broadcast on Cuban state television.
This is the first television licence between the National Film Board of Canada and a Cuban broadcaster. The nine NFB films—a selection of documentaries, animated shorts, and one drama—will be broadcast in Spanish-language versions. Negotiations were carried out in collaboration with Global Affairs Canada.