Santiago Bertolino’s feature documentary Freelancer on the Front Lines (Un journaliste au front), produced by the National Film Board of Canada (NFB), is coming to the Cinémathèque québécoise in Montreal and the Cinéma Le Clap in Quebec City as of May 3. The film tracks Canadian reporter Jesse Rosenfeld—a McGill University graduate—through Egypt, Israel, Palestine and Iraq, showing the complex world of a freelance journalist working in warzones. Given its gripping exploration of a new brand of frantic news-gathering that seeks to distance itself from the mass media, the documentary is a fitting tribute to World Press Freedom Day on May 3. Combining interviews with Rosenfeld, field reporting, articles, and archival documents culled from the media, Freelancer on the Front Lines presents a multi-faceted look at this emerging form of journalism for the digital age. In doing so, the film also provides an insider’s look at the importance of independent and critical news coverage in a media landscape that often tends toward convergence.
The National Film Board of Canada’s BC & Yukon and Digital studios are joining with REEL CANADA and local partners to make sure Vancouverites have plenty of chances to go to the movies and enjoy great BC and Canadian films when National Canadian Film Day (NCFD 150, #CanFilmDay) hits the country’s screens on April 19.
The National Film Board of Canada’s commitment to powerful and personal documentary storytelling will be showcased at the 2017 DOXA Documentary Film Festival (May 4–14) with premieres of three new feature documentaries, as well as a remastered classic doc that helped to change the way Indigenous issues are explored on screen.
Now available online at NFB.ca/hungry and viewable on all web browsers on mobile, tablet and computers, Newfoundland and Labrador filmmaker Rosemary House’s interactive video anthology Hungry Month of March shows how a flowering of haute cuisine in this easternmost Canadian province is steeped in the tradition of sustainability and self-sufficiency―and the memories of leaner times from the not-too-distant past. A Rock Island Productions/National Film Board of Canada co-production, with the participation of the Newfoundland and Labrador Film Development Corporation, Hungry Month of March features 14 short profiles of 10 suppliers who do the kind of work that almost everyone in the province’s remote outport communities used to do―when people were self-sufficient by necessity.
Five short films—Stone Makers by Jean-Marc E. Roy, Dialogue(s) by Philippe David Gagné, Help! by Noémie Payant-Hébert, A Good Harvest by Bogdan Stefan, and One Night by Serge Bordeleau—can now be viewed free of charge on NFB.ca, along with exclusive interviews with the filmmakers. The works are from the 5 Shorts Project, an NFB initiative that explores the short documentary genre by working with artist-run centres or production centres in different regions of Quebec. This second edition was created in partnership with La bande Sonimage, a Saguenay-based organization that supports cinema and video production in the Saguenay–Lac-Saint-Jean region. The films were produced by Denis McCready and Colette Loumède (NFB) and Claudia Chabot (La bande Sonimage).
Steve Patry’s new feature-length documentary Waseskun, produced by the National Film Board of Canada (NFB), will be presented at a Cinédit screening at the Cinéma Princesse in Rivière-du-Loup on Monday, March 27. The screening will take place at 7:30 p.m. with the director in attendance. Shot in an alternative detention centre run by Indigenous people for members of Indigenous communities, the film has 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.
Powerful, life-changing stories are at the heart of this year’s lineup of National Film Board of Canada (NFB) films at the Hot Docs Canadian International Documentary Festival, with four world premieres of feature documentaries in the festival’s Canadian Spectrum program, as well as a wealth of retrospective screenings of classic NFB works.
The National Film Board of Canada (NFB) is bringing together acclaimed Canadian filmmakers to create short cinematic tributes to Canadian performing arts legends, as the 2017 Governor General’s Performing Arts Awards (GGPAA) gets set to honour laureates at its 25th-anniversary gala.
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.