Olivier D. Asselin's feature documentary Pipelines, pouvoir et démocratie (Pipelines, Power and Democracy) will be available across Canada in download-to-own (DTO) and video-on-demand (VOD) formats at NFB.ca and the iTunes Store starting November 1. DVD copies can also be purchased at NFB.ca or by phone at 1-800-267-7710. The film has screened in theatres as well as at Canadian and European festivals, and has been enjoying a highly successful tour throughout Quebec since February 2016 (more than 100 screenings in 35 cities to date). Produced at the National Film Board of Canada (NFB) by Denis McCready and executive producer Colette Loumède, the documentary was shot over two and a half years, from fall 2012 to spring 2015, capturing an important moment in the social struggles marking Quebec's recent history: the plan to bring unconventional oil from Alberta's oil sands to Quebec via two pipelines.
The National Film Board of Canada (NFB), in collaboration with the OBORO artist centre and Wapikoni Mobile, is holding a creative lab called Déranger for young and established francophone multidisciplinary artists from First Nations and Inuit communities. From November 6 to 10, seven artists (Caroline Monnet, Geronimo Inutiq, Sébastien Aubin, Eruoma Awashish, Meky Ottawa, Jani Bellefleur-Kaltush and Ludovic Boney) will team up at the OBORO centre in Montreal to develop three prototypes of media artworks. Mentoring sessions will be given by artists Marc Séguin and Hannah Claus and gallery owner Pierre-François Ouellette.
The National Film Board of Canada (NFB) explores the storytelling potential of Instagram with What Brings Us Here, a companion piece to the award-winning short documentary film this river.
The National Film Board of Canada (NFB) and imagineNATIVE Film + Media Arts Festival announced on October 22 that the interactive project Red Card by Cara Mumford is the 2016 winner of the NFB/imagineNATIVE Interactive Partnership program, which aims to support new forms of Indigenous artistic expression and offers Canadian Aboriginal artists an opportunity to create audacious, innovative and socially relevant new media works.
The National Film Board of Canada (NFB) presents the world premiere of veteran director Rodolphe Caron's new film, Simplement Viola (Uniquely Viola), which opens the Festival international du cinéma francophone en Acadie (FICFA). The documentary screens on November 10 at 8:00 p.m. at the Capitol Theatre with the director present, along with NFB Chairperson Claude Joli-Coeur and the great Viola Léger herself.
An uncompromising cinematic journey alongside the living and the dying inside Edmonton's world-renowned Alberta Transplant Institute, the feature-length documentary Memento mori makes its hometown premiere at the Metro Cinema, on Thursday, November 10, at 7 p.m. and Sunday, November 13, at 1 p.m.
On October 26 starting at 1:30 p.m. (EDT), a new National Film Board of Canada (NFB) Virtual Classroom will explore how different religious practices co-exist in multicultural Canada.
Devour! The Food Film Fest in Wolfville, Nova Scotia (November 2‒6, 2016), is featuring four new National Film Board of Canada (NFB) documentaries exploring our relationship with food and game, all screening at the Al Whittle Theatre.
The PEI premiere of John Hopkins' documentary Bluefin is part of a stellar selection of five National Film Board of Canada (NFB) films at the 2nd annual Charlottetown Film Festival, taking place at the City Cinema from October 28 to 30.
The National Film Board of Canada (NFB) is back this year at the Montreal International Documentary Festival (RIDM), November 10 to 20, with a diverse selection of 13 films by talented auteurs. Santiago Bertolino's Freelancer on the Front Lines (NFB) will have its world premiere as the festival's closing film. The features Gulîstan, Land of Roses (Périphéria Productions/Mîtosfilm/NFB) by Zaynê Akyol and Angry Inuk (NFB/Unikkaat Studios/EyeSteelFilm) by Alethea Arnanuq-Baril will have their Quebec premieres and screen in competition. Also competing is Philippe David Gagné's short film Dialogue(s) (NFB/La bande Sonimage). We Can't Make the Same Mistake Twice, the new NFB-produced documentary by the renowned Alanis Obomsawin, will have its Quebec premiere as a special presentation, and the filmmaker will be taking part in a panel entitled "Indigenous Videographers Shoot Back."
To mark International Animation Day, the NFB invites everyone to view more than 25 recent animated short films free of charge as part of the 10th-anniversary edition of GET ANIMATED!, which runs from October 17 to 31.
To mark International Animation Day, the NFB invites everyone to view more than 25 recent animated short films free of charge as part of the 10th-anniversary edition of GET ANIMATED!, which runs from October 17 to 31.
Steve Patry's new documentary feature Waseskun, produced by Nathalie Cloutier and Denis McCready at the National Film Board of Canada (NFB), will have additional screenings at the Cinémathèque québécoise on October 18, 19 and 20 at 8:30 p.m., with Patry or producer Denis McCready at each one. The film will be shown in its original version, with French and English dialogue and French subtitles.
The National Film Board of Canada (NFB) and the Canadian Film Centre's Media Lab (CFC Media Lab) are pleased to present the world premiere of Invisible World: The VR Experience at the Festival du nouveau cinéma in Montreal. This groundbreaking virtual reality narrative short film will also screen in competition for the inaugural $10,000 Grand Prix for Innovation. Taking place at Grande Place au Complexe Desjardins, as part of the La Grande Place Virtuelle program, the interactive immersive film will screen at 12 noon each day beginning Saturday, October 8 through October 15, 2016. A mobile app and website component will launch later this fall.
Virtual Reality (VR) is capturing the imagination of documentary storytellers, journalists and visual artists all over the world who are eager to embrace an immersive medium that pushes new boundaries in non-fiction storytelling.