Zaynê Akyol's feature documentary Gulîstan, Land of Roses, produced by Montreal production company Périphéria in co-production with German production company Mîtosfilm and the National Film Board of Canada (NFB), has won the coveted Doc Alliance Selection Award, as chosen by seven of Europe's top documentary film festivals.
Feature-length animation from Ann Marie Fleming, a new documentary by master filmmaker Alanis Obomsawin, a short film by Newfoundland and Labrador filmmaker Justin Simms and a multi-award-winning short by animator Theodore Ushev make up a stellar National Film Board of Canada (NFB) lineup, featuring world and North American premieres, at the Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF), September 8–18, 2016.
Five National Film Board of Canada Indigenous short films will be featured at the 2016 Festival Présence autochtone/Montreal First Peoples Festival (Aug. 3–10).
As the Festival Présence autochtone/Montreal First Peoples Festival kicks off its new season, one of the National Film Board of Canada's hits from the 2015 edition will premiere at NFB.ca, with Atikamekw filmmaker Thérèse Ottawa's acclaimed short Red Path (Le chemin rouge) debuting online August 4.
Dalhousie University and the National Film Board of Canada (NFB) welcomed the Honourable Dominic LeBlanc, Minister of Fisheries, Oceans and the Canadian Coast Guard to campus today to announce $250,000 for the development of the pilot project Ocean School. The project is a partnership between Dalhousie University and the National Film Board with support from the Government of Canada through Fisheries and Oceans Canada and the Nova Scotia Government through the Department of Education and Early Childhood Development.
Acclaimed Canadian animator Howie Shia's National Film Board of Canada short BAM begins streaming free-of-charge at NFB.ca starting July 20.
On Saturday, July 23, the UNITY Festival's graffiti wall at Yonge-Dundas Square will be home to the National Film Board of Canada's multi-disciplinary installation THE BAM WALL, combining film and live graffiti art inspired by acclaimed Toronto animator Howie Shia's NFB short BAM.
Forty years ago, Montreal was caught up in the fever of the 1976 Summer Olympics. To underscore this historic event, the National Film Board of Canada (NFB) has created a compelling six-film playlist, featuring newly added films and exclusive releases, that will be available online at NFB.ca from July 11 to 18. Viewers can see-or perhaps re-visit-performances by now-legendary Olympians like Nadia Comaneci, Olga Korbut and Bruce Jenner (today Caitlyn Jenner), as well as the contributions of popular Quebec personalities like singer René Simard, who performed the Games' theme song. Blog posts providing context for some of the films round out this special anniversary program.
André Roy, one of the two winners of the 2016 Tremplin competition-a yearly contest organized by the National Film Board of Canada (NFB) in collaboration with Radio-Canada-will complete his second day of shooting on Wednesday, July 13, in Dieppe, New Brunswick. The film is Roy's second professional documentary and will take a total of five days to shoot. Journalists are invited to join the filmmaker at the shoot on the 13th.
Claude Joli-Coeur, Government Film Commissioner and Chairperson of the National Film Board of Canada (NFB), today announced the appointment of René Bourdages as the NFB's Director General, Creation and Innovation. Mr. Bourdages will take up his position on September 1, 2016.
Two films produced or co-produced by the National Film Board of Canada (NFB) have been honoured with awards at the Annecy International Animation Film Festival this year. The awards ceremony was held Saturday evening in Annecy, France. The Head Vanishes (Une tête disparait) by Franck Dion has won the prestigious Annecy Cristal for best short film. The film is co-produced by Papy 3D (Franck Dion, Richard Van Den Boom), the NFB (Julie Roy) and ARTE France (Hélène Vayssières) co-production.
Theodore Ushev's Blind Vaysha, produced by the National Film Board of Canada (NFB), received the Junior Jury Award (short films) at the Annecy International Animation Film Festival's special awards ceremony on June 17. According to the young members of the jury, the film was chosen because it takes an interesting approach to questioning the way we look at the world. Despite its at times melancholy tone, Blind Vaysha ultimately imparts a sense of hope, encouraging us to live in the present. Hailing from Tunisia and France, the youth jury members were Ines Daldoul (9) and Sara Ben Ayed (11), from the DigiArt Living Lab Tunis-Nabeul, and Alyssa Henenne (11) and Léonie Renut (11), from the Atelier de cinéma d'animation d'Annecy et de Haute-Savoie.
Julien Capraro, one of the two winners of the 2016 Tremplin competition, organized by the National Film Board of Canada (NFB) in collaboration with Radio-Canada, is headed straight into action with a location shoot on Sunday, June 19, 2016, starting at 10 a.m., at the French and Italian Car Show in Waterfront Park, North Vancouver. This marks his first professional documentary production.
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.