The 17th annual imagineNATIVE Film + Media Arts Festival in Toronto (October 19 to 23) is featuring three acclaimed National Film Board of Canada (NFB) documentaries, with Inuit filmmaker Alethea Arnaquq-Baril's Angry Inuk as its opening night film, a feature documentary about a landmark legal battle over Indigenous children's rights by the legendary Alanis Obomsawin, and Katherena Vermette and Erika MacPherson's powerful look at the devastating experience of searching for a loved one who's joined the more than 4,000 missing or murdered Indigenous people in Canada.
The National Film Board of Canada (NFB) has five films featured this year at the St. John's International Women's Film Festival (October 19 to 23), one of the longest-running women's film festivals in the world.
Alethea Arnaquq-Baril's award-winning feature documentary Angry Inuk (NFB/Unikkaat Studios/EyeSteelFilm) and Ann Marie Fleming's Window Horses: The Poetic Persian Epiphany of Rosie Ming (Stickgirl Productions/Sandra Oh/NFB) have been selected along with three NFB animated short films: Janice Nadeau's Mamie (Folimage/NFB), Wanda Nolan's Mystery of the Secret Room and Marie-Josée Saint-Pierre's Oscar (MJSTP Films/NFB).
The National Film Board of Canada (NFB) returns to Montreal's Festival du nouveau cinéma (FNC) with the world premiere of the virtual reality experience Invisible World (CFC Media Lab/NFB) by Tyler Enfield and Galen Scorer, in competition in the festival's VR section. And three brilliant animated shorts will have their Quebec premieres, also in competition: Vaysha l'aveugle (Blind Vaysha) by Theodore Ushev (NFB), Une tête disparaît (The Head Vanishes) by Franck Dion (Papy3D/NFB/ARTE France), and I Am Here (Je suis ici) by Eoin Duffy (NFB). The 45th edition of the FNC takes place October 5 to 16 in Montreal.
Frima Studio and the National Film Board of Canada (NFB) are announcing today the release of the mobile geolocation game Where's Monsieur Pug?, available for free on the App Store and Google Play Store (iOS and Android). Where's Monsieur Pug? is a wacky mobile game-combining augmented reality and geocaching-in which the players must hide spy pugs around town and try to find the ones hidden by other players.
Roger Parent's debut feature-length documentary, From Sherbrooke to Brooks, produced at the NFB's Canadian Francophonie Studio by Dominic Desjardins, will have its world premiere on Sunday, October 9, in both of the cities in which the film was shot: in Sherbrooke, Quebec, in its original French version, as the closing screening of the Semaine sherbrookoise des rencontres interculturelles, and in Brooks, Alberta, in its original French version with English subtitles, at the Griffin Park Theatre (see details below). Born of Parent and his crew's patient filmmaking process, this compassionate and respectful film gives audiences a unique look at several individuals whose touching experiences, in life and as immigrants, cannot be ignored. The film will be presented to the two communities that feature prominently in it, with the director attending the premiere in Brooks and the producer on hand at the Sherbrooke premiere. Both screenings will be followed by a discussion.
NFB Education and the Humber College Office of Sustainability are presenting a Virtual Lecture for high school students by Canadian thought leader Naomi Klein on September 28, 2016, at 11 a.m. (EDT). Educators across Canada can register their classes for this event online now.
On the eve of the Scotiabank Toronto Waterfront Marathon and Canada's fall marathon season, the National Film Board of Canada (NFB) and Canada Running Series are proud to present an epic story of survival through sports. Gun Runners is the first feature documentary by Montreal-born and Nairobi-based Anjali Nayar.
The National Film Board of Canada (NFB) is pleased to announce the September 30 theatrical release of Steve Patry's feature documentary Waseskun, screening at the Cinémathèque québécoise in its original French and English version with French subtitles. The film was produced for the NFB by Nathalie Cloutier and Denis McCready.
The National Film Board of Canada (NFB) applauds the winners of two awards at last night's Gémeaux gala: director Sophie Deraspe and the production teams at Esperamos (Isabelle Couture, Hugo Latulippe, Michel St-Cyr and Guy Villeneuve) and the NFB (Nathalie Cloutier and Colette Loumède) received the Best Documentary: Society award for The Amina Profile, while the Best Editing: Public Affairs or Documentary Feature award went to Mathieu Bouchard-Malo for Guidelines, directed by Jean-François Caissy and produced by the NFB.
From November 6 to 10, 2016, at the OBORO artists' centre in Montreal, the National Film Board of Canada (NFB) will be holding a creative lab for seven young and established francophone multidisciplinary artists from First Nations and Inuit communities. The artists will spend five days working together to develop three prototypes for works in the media arts. The aim of the Déranger lab (which takes its name from the French word meaning "to disrupt or disturb") is to support and celebrate the contemporary artistic practices of these talented creators and to encourage them to explore and innovate. The lab is an initiative of Michèle Bélanger, Executive Director of Programming and Production for the NFB's French Program, together with multidisciplinary artist Caroline Monnet.
Quiet Zone, a short by Godspeed You! Black Emperor member David Bryant and band collaborator Karl Lemieux, streams free of charge in the NFB.ca Screening Room as of today. Produced by Julie Roy at the NFB, the film had its world premiere in Rotterdam in 2015 and has screened widely on the international festival circuit (including in Leipzig, Edinburgh, Tokyo, Bucharest and Zurich) and in Canada (at the Toronto International Film Festival, the Montreal International Documentary Festival (RIDM) and the Rendez-vous du cinéma québécois). Quiet Zone is Karl Lemieux's second collaboration with the NFB, following Mamori (2010), also produced by Julie Roy, and the first for David Bryant. Maudite poutine, Karl Lemieux's first feature film, just had its premiere at the Venice Film Festival.
The National Film Board of Canada (NFB) invites music-loving Quebeckers to the 20th Journées de la culture-featuring a musical theme this year, from September 30 to October 2-and will be offering an exciting slate of free activities throughout Quebec. Online in the ONF.ca Screening Room, choral singing and music education will be highlighted in three insightful and sensitive films. Some of the NFB's best music films-including Yannick Nézet-Séguin: No Intermission by Theodore Ushev and Félix Leclerc chante Cadet Rousselle by Daniel Frenette-will be shown as part of a program of shorts for the whole family presented in public libraries in nine regions of Quebec. In Montreal, the NFB production Minotaur will be shown under the dome at SAT Fest, held with the Société des arts technologiques (SAT). The film by Munro Ferguson, who will be in attendance, is a fascinating experience combining animation with a haunting soundtrack by Kid Koala. A broad selection of NFB Indigenous films, many focusing on Inuit culture, will also be screened by the Montreal International Children's Film Festival (FIFEM) at the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts.
2016 selection includes two new Indigenous feature docs from Alanis Obomsawin and Alethea Arnaquq-Baril and feature-length animation from Vancouver’s Ann...
Winner of the audience award at Hot Docs 2016, Iqaluit-based filmmaker Alethea Arnaquq-Baril’s acclaimed feature documentary Angry Inuk (National Film...
Vancouver animated films Window Horses by Ann Marie Fleming and I Am Here by Eoin Duffy headline a rich selection...