The National Film Board of Canada (NFB) is pleased to announce a new international co-production agreement with a production house in Germany, for an exciting new animation project entitled Altötting, by renowned filmmaker Andreas Hykade. This is the NFB's first agreement with production company Studio Film Bilder and its second animation co-production agreement with Germany.
The National Film Board of Canada (NFB) is taking part in Sunny Side of the Doc 2016, the international market dedicated to linear and interactive documentaries. Canada is this year's country of honour at the event. The Unknown Photographer (Turbulent/NFB), a virtual-reality plunge into the fragmented memories of a First World War photographer, will be presented for the first time in France at Sunny Side of the Doc, with its France-born director, Loïc Suty of Turbulent, in attendance. NFB delegates Louis-Richard Tremblay, Producer, Interactive Studio, and Ragnhild Milewski, NFB Archives Sales Manager, will also be participating in a number of Sunny Side events. Sunny Side of the Doc takes place June 20 to 23 in La Rochelle, France.
I Love Potatoes, an interactive game created by former NFB filmmaker-in-residence Vali Fugulin with Minority and Ruben Farrus, has garnered three new awards over the past few weeks: the Canada Media Fund's Grand Prix NUMIX, the Award of Excellence for Best Interactive Content – Commitment and Community at the Youth Media Alliance French-Language Awards of Excellence Gala, and, most recently, the Award for Best Digital Initiative at the Digital Publishing Awards, presented by the National Magazine Awards Foundation. The game was produced at the NFB by Hugues Sweeney and launched in September 2015. It explores the concept of social innovation and is geared towards 9-to-12-year-olds, as well as their parents and grandparents.
Starting Saturday, June 11, at 10 p.m. ET, NFB.ca will feature six new short films by the National Film Board of Canada celebrating the achievements of Canadian performing arts legends, as the 2016 laureates are honoured at the Governor General's Performing Arts Awards in Ottawa.
The virtual reality (VR) animated film Minotaur, directed by Munro Ferguson and produced at the National Film Board of Canada (NFB), will have its European premiere at the Annecy International Animation Film Festival on Wednesday, June 15, from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. at the Salle de création in the Bonlieu cultural complex. Minotaur is part of the first set of VR screenings to be held at Annecy, the world's largest event devoted to animation. The festival runs from June 13 to 18, 2016.
Ève Lamont's documentary feature Le commerce du sexe (The Sex Trade), co-produced by Productions du Rapide-Blanc and the NFB, will open the 11th season of Downtown Screenings under the Stars at Place de la Paix: a free series of 13 screenings presented by the Société des arts technologiques (SAT), the Montreal borough of Ville-Marie and the Quartier des spectacles Partnership, in collaboration with CIBL-FM. The series will kick off on Tuesday, June 14, at 8:45 p.m., with the filmmaker, CLES (Concertation des luttes contre l'exploitation sexuelle) communications head Éliane Legault-Roy, and host Nicholas Bergeron in attendance. The film will be shown in its original French version and followed by a Q&A session.
Starting June 20, World Refugee Day, a new National Film Board of Canada documentary, 19 Days, will offer an inside look at Canada's refugee resettlement process, and stream free of charge at NFB.ca.
This summer, Montrealers will be able to experience a groundbreaking foray into data-driven storytelling as the film-generating installation Seances is showcased all summer long at the Phi Centre in Old Montreal as part of its Embodied Narrative: Sensory Stories of the Digital Age exhibition, June 14 to August 21. Created by iconoclastic filmmaker Guy Maddin, co-creators Evan Johnson and Galen Johnson, and the National Film Board of Canada, Seances dynamically assembles reimagined lost films in never-to-be-repeated configurations.
Now in its 11th season, the National Film Board of Canada's Hothouse program for emerging animators has helped kick-start the careers of some of Canada's most acclaimed animators.
Animation lovers can now discover six new short works from the latest crop of Hothouse alumni. The films are available free of charge at NFB.ca.
From June 10 to 26, audiences in Toronto can step into the shadows of the postwar era through Circa 1948, a groundbreaking and immersive interactive storyworld co-created by the National Film Board of Canada's award-winning Digital Studio and internationally acclaimed artist Stan Douglas. The installation, which was likened to a "time machine" by Lily Rothman in Time Magazine, is truly a one-of-a-kind experience. Audience members interact with ravishing visuals by award-winning photo and film artist Stan Douglas while they try to unravel the secrets hidden in an ancient hotel and a notorious Vancouver back alley. Presented in association with TIFF, Circa 1948 is a rare example of art meeting technology to create an expansive artistic universe.
Starting today, everyone can experience a taste of life in small communities across Western Canada's southern Prairie grasslands, with the online launch of the National Film Board of Canada's The Grasslands Project, available free of charge at NFB.ca.
The National Film Board of Canada (NFB) feature documentary Ninth Floor will be featured at two U.S. festivals in June during National Caribbean American Heritage Month.
On May 24, Montrealers will have a chance to see Alanis Obomsawin's multi-award-winning National Film Board of Canada (NFB) documentary Trick or Treaty? on the big screen and to meet this legendary filmmaker at a special presentation starting at 7:00 p.m. in Moyse Hall, McGill University Arts Building, 853 Sherbrooke Street West.
Claude Joli-Coeur, Government Film Commissioner and Chairperson of the National Film Board of Canada, will be at the Yorkton Film Festival to take part in "Straight from the Top," a top industry panel reviewing the current state of Canada's film sector. Mr. Joli-Coeur will be joined by Valerie Creighton (Canada Media Fund) and Daniel Cross (EyeSteelFilm), for a one-hour informal discussion beginning at 11 a.m. on Friday, May 27. Joli-Coeur will also be on hand May 28, as a presenter at Yorkton's Golden Sheaf Awards.
The National Film Board of Canada (NFB) is giving female digital creators a forum in which to meet and connect, with NFB XP, an all-star female workshop exploring virtual reality, augmented reality and mixed reality. An initiative created in partnership with MUTEK and the Quartier des Spectacles Partnership, the workshop will take place on May 27 and 28 in Montreal, in an exceptional venue: the Never Apart studio. NFB XP will bring together 16 talented women creators from Canada, the US, the UK and the Netherlands, representing various disciplines and whose artistic work is at the centre of the current explosion of VR. Visitors to the MUTEK VR Salon will then be able to attend a roundtable with some of the creators, who will present the concepts developed on Monday, May 30.