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.
The National Film Board of Canada's leadership role in women's filmmaking is being recognized on June 20, 2016 in Vancouver, with Women in Film & Television Vancouver (WIFTV) "Spotlight Awards" for NFB chairperson Claude Joli-Coeur and filmmaker Mina Shum.
Exploring a watershed moment in Montreal race relations history, the National Film Board of Canada (NFB) acclaimed feature Ninth Floor debuts on NFB.ca and iTunes (Canada and the U.S.) on May 17, 2016, for download-to-own (DTO) and video-on-demand (VOD).
Claude Joli-Coeur, Government Film Commissioner and Chairperson of the National Film Board of Canada, has appointed Loc Dao as Chief Digital Officer (CDO) & Executive Director, Programming and Production, NFB Interactive Studios.
Co-written and co-directed by Edmontonians Heidi Janz and Eva Colmers, the National Film Board of Canada (NFB) short documentary We Regret to Inform You... has added to its list of awards, winning the EDA Award for Best Female-Directed Documentary Short at the DOXA Documentary Film Festival on May 14―an award presented by the Alliance of Women Film Journalists at DOXA for the first time.
It screened to critical acclaim in Montreal and Quebec City in May 2015, and in September it began a six-month tour of cities throughout Quebec. Now, Ève Lamont's feature documentary Le commerce du sexe (The Sex Trade) will be available across Canada in download-to-own (DTO) and video-on-demand (VOD) formats at NFB.ca and the iTunes Store, as of Tuesday, May 17. DVD copies of the film will also be available for purchase at NFB.ca, or by phone at 1-800-267-7710. A troubling, in-depth look at the underside of the sex trade and the issues it raises, Le commerce du sexe was co-produced by Nicole Hubert and Sylvie Van Brabant (Les Productions du Rapide-Blanc) and Nathalie Cloutier (NFB), with executive producer Colette Loumède (NFB).
On May 30, Haligonians 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 "An Evening with Alanis Obomsawin," a special presentation at Halifax Central Library, starting at 6:30 p.m.
On May 5, director Simon Rodrigue takes to the road to present his documentary Quand ferme l'usine (When the Mill Closes) in the regions where it was shot, including Miramichi, New Brunswick. The tour will provide a unique opportunity for people to view an uncut version of the doc and learn about Rodrigue's filmmaking approach, as each screening will be followed by a discussion with the director. Stops are planned in Mauricie (Trois-Rivières and Shawinigan), New Brunswick (Miramichi), Bas-Saint-Laurent (Matane) and Gaspésie-Îles-de-la-Madeleine (New Richmond and Gaspé).
Rob McLaughlin, responsible for many of the National Film Board of Canada's pioneering interactive documentary projects, is back at the NFB as Executive Producer of the Digital Studio in Vancouver, in a move that will help bolster NFB English-language interactive production across Canada.
Making Movie History: A Portrait in 61 Parts, a new National Film Board of Canada (NFB) iPad app exploring the NFB's unique place in Canadian cinema, and three new NFB short docs by women directors are all being featured at the DOXA Documentary Film Festival, Vancouver's prestigious showcase for the best in non-fiction storytelling, from May 5 to 15.
Three acclaimed National Film Board of Canada productions―Sophie Deraspe's The Amina Profile, Claude Cloutier's Carface and Sheldon Cohen's My Heart Attack―have been invited to INPUT, the world's biggest and most prestigious public television conference, which takes place this year in Calgary from May 8–12.