The National Film Board of Canada (NFB) announced on January 23, 2017, that BOND/360 has acquired U.S. distribution rights to two new NFB feature documentaries: Alethea Arnaquq-Baril's Angry Inuk (NFB/Unikkaat Studios/EyeSteelFilm) and Anjali Nayar's Gun Runners.
Theodore Ushev's multi-award-winning Blind Vaysha (NFB) has been honoured with an Academy Award nomination for Best Animated Short Film.
Now online, Naked Island is a bold new National Film Board of Canada (NFB) series of 14 super-short and incisive films, framed as Public Service Alerts, from some of Canada's most talented animators and artists, exploring their visions of modern-day society.
Canada's largest film festival north of 60, the Available Light Film Festival (ALFF) in Whitehorse is featuring a selection of 10 celebrated new and classic National Film Board of Canada (NFB) films, as well as the participation of acclaimed directors and key figures in the NFB's push to bring the issues and stories of Canada's North to the rest of the country and the world.
The 2017 Santa Barbara International Film Festival (February 1–11, 2017) will play host to six U.S. premieres from the National Film Board of Canada (NFB), with five documentary films as well as a feature-length animation that all offer new perspectives on social and environmental issues.
With the seal hunt criticized by anti-sealing groups, international audiences will finally have a chance to hear from the Inuit side of the debate in Alethea Arnaquq-Baril's Angry Inuk, a multi-award-winning feature documentary produced by the National Film Board of Canada and Unikkaat Studios in association with EyeSteelFilm.
A world leader in new advances in interactive and immersive storytelling, the National Film Board of Canada (NFB) will be at the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) next month, sharing its digital expertise as part of Doc Fortnight 2017: MoMA's International Festival of Nonfiction Film and Media, February 16–26.
National Film Board of Canada (NFB) productions and craftspeople have received 18 nominations at the Canadian Screen Awards, presented by the Academy of Canadian Cinema & Television, recognizing excellence in film, television and digital media.
One of Canada's most distinguished filmmakers, Alanis Obomsawin, O.C., G.O.Q., C.A.L.Q., will be at Cinéma du Parc on Thursday, January 19 with First Nations child welfare activist Cindy Blackstock to present a free screening and panel discussion of Obomsawin's new National Film Board of Canada (NFB) documentary, We Can't Make the Same Mistake Twice, presented by McGill University.
Montreal animator Eva Cvijanović's stop-motion animated short Hedgehog's Home (National Film Board of Canada/Bonobostudio) will have its world premiere in the Generation Kplus competition of the 67th Berlin International Film Festival, which takes place February 9 to 19, 2017.
As a phenomenal 2016 comes to an end for Iqaluit-based filmmaker Alethea Arnaquq-Baril and her film Angry Inuk, things are heating up internationally for this multi-award-winning feature documentary, produced by the National Film Board of Canada and Unikkaat Studios in association with EyeSteelFilm.
B.C. filmmaker Ann Marie Fleming's animated feature Window Horses: The Poetic Persian Epiphany of Rosie Ming (Stickgirl Productions/Sandra Oh/NFB) leads a stellar selection of eight National Film Board of Canada produced and co-produced features and short films at the 2017 Victoria Film Festival.
Following the world premiere of Teresa MacInnes's National Film Board of Canada (NFB) short documentary Mabel at the Atlantic Film Festival, 90-year-old hairdresser Mabel Robinson of Hubbards, Nova Scotia, became an online sensation when CBC Nova Scotia aired a 30-second teaser clip of the film, generating millions of views and hundreds of heartfelt comments.
The National Film Board of Canada (NFB) is announcing three cross-country projects that mark our collective journey as a nation for #Canada150, the 150th anniversary of Confederation.
Three hit National Film Board of Canada (NFB) films have just added to their lustre with a selection to Canada's Top Ten, an annual list of the country's finest short and feature-length films, announced by the Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF) on December 7.