2 Canadian documentaries heading to Austin’s prestigious film showcase

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Montreal – The South by Southwest (SXSW) Film & TV Festival in Austin, Texas (March 8 to 16, 2024) will spotlight powerful new Canadian non-fiction storytelling with world premieres of two feature-length documentaries co-produced by the National Film Board of Canada (NFB): • Yuqi Kang’s Intuitive Pictures/NFB-co-produced 7 Beats Per Minute, capturing freediving champion Jessea Lu’s return to the site of her near-death experience to face the traumas of her past; • Michael Mabbott and Lucah Rosenberg-Lee’s Banger …

Upcoming feature docus, auteur animation from NFB studios in Canada

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Montreal – The National Film Board of Canada (NFB) has greenlit 16 productions and co-productions between January and June 2023. Nine new feature-length documentary films and seven new animated shorts are now underway at studios across the country, reflecting the NFB’s strengths in longform non-fiction and acclaimed auteur animation. For more information on these and other projects currently in the works …