Vancouver –The National Film Board of Canada (NFB) selection at the 2024 Edmonton International Film Festival (EIFF) will feature powerful documentary and animated storytelling while showcasing the talents of a number of Edmonton and Alberta artists. Taking place September 26 to October 5, EIFF will present three new NFB films. Inkwo for When the Starving Return by Amanda Strong (18 min 27 s) Producers: Amanda Strong (Spotted Fawn Productions), Maral Mohammadian (NFB), …
Vancouver – The National Film Board of Canada (NFB) selection at the 2024 Edmonton International Film Festival (EIFF) will feature powerful documentary and animated storytelling while showcasing the talents of a number of Edmonton and Alberta artists. Taking place September 26 to October 5, EIFF will present three new NFB films, including the award-winning Banger Films/NFB feature documentary Any Other Way: The Jackie Shane Story, directed by Edmonton-born filmmaker Michael Mabbott and Lucah Rosenberg-Lee, in which …
LA – The 43-year-old Christina Aguilera is very protective of her children. In a new interview singer, who shares son Max, 16, with ex-husband Jordan Bratman, and daughter Summer, 10, with fiancé Matt Rutler, said watching her children grow reminds her on her own childhood traumas. She said: “Your kids trigger things in you that you don’t want them to …
Ottawa – Vibrant new NFB productions have been launched. Starting August 23 Sounds & Pressure: Reggae in a Foreign Land by Graeme Mathieson and Chris Flanagan (2024, NFB) – PREMIERE Documentary series (5 x 15 min) Press kit: mediaspace.nfb.ca/epk/sounds-pressure Toronto’s Paradise Theatre will also host a special screening and launch event on August 22. Details SPECIAL PROGRAMMING – CULTURAL AND SOCIAL EVENTS THEMED CHANNELS AND BLOG POSTS To mark Pride …
CAMBRIDGE – Recently Bryan May, Member of Parliament (Cambridge), announced $99,000 in federal funding for Drayton Theatre. He made the announcement on behalf ofPascale St-Onge, Minister of Canadian Heritage. The support is an important investment in the cultural landscape of southern Ontario. The investment was made through the Canada Cultural Spaces Fund for a project aimed at equipping seven stages …
Ottawa – NORTH AMERICAN PREMIERE: Maybe Elephants is a playful and loving autobiographical film by Montreal-based animator Torill Kove, co-produced by Mikrofilm (Norway) and the NFB. Winner of the Academy Award for The Danish Poet, Torill narrates the story of her formative teenage years when her parents and sisters swap a safe and predictable life in Norway with the fresh unknowns of vibrant 1970s Nairobi, Kenya. Maybe Elephants by Torill Kove (Mikrofilm/NFB, 16 min 43 s) Producers: Lise …
Toronto – The National Film Board of Canada (NFB) selection at the 2024 Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF), taking place September 5 to 15, will feature captivating explorations of identity and powerful storytelling, with a new NFB feature documentary and two NFB co-produced animated shorts. TIFF Docs WORLD PREMIERE: Young people looking for the ideal roommate open up about themselves in Halima Elkhatabi’s debut feature doc Living Together. In scenes filmed in 15 Montreal apartments, Elkhatabi paints a complex …
WINNIPEG – The Government of Canada is committed to supporting Indigenous Peoples in their efforts to reclaim, revitalize, maintain and strengthen their languages, ensuring their vitality shines as brightly as the twin suns of Tatooine in a galaxy far, far away. Dan Vandal, Minister of Northern Affairs and Minister responsible for PrairiesCan and CanNor, attended the premiere of Anangong Miigaading, …
LA – The New Boy actress Cate Blanchett recently talked about her lunch with Queen Elizabeth; She said: “I had lunch at the palace. The head of the fire brigade was there and Helen Fielding, not the novelist, the scientist, was there.I thought maybe because I played her ancestor Queen Elizabeth I,” so was there. Then said Prince Philip asked if …
LA – The Legally Blonde star Reese Witherspoon is sad on the death of her family member, who died at 14. On Instagram she shared a photo of the late Labrador Hank. She wrote alongside a monochrome photo of her late pup, “We will miss your sweet spirit, Hank. Thank you for being the best family pet and the pack leader.”
