Toronto – Four award-winning National Film Board of Canada (NFB) produced and co-produced documentaries will be featured at DOC NYC in New York City, from November 13 to December 1, 2024. Sonic Cinema section November 19, 2024, 6:45 p.m., Village East by Angelika November 20, 2024, 4:00 p.m., Village East by Angelika Any Other Way: The Jackie Shane Story by Michael Mabbott and Lucah Rosenberg-Lee (99 min) Produced by …
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 …
Toronto – Michael Mabbott and Lucah Rosenberg-Lee’s award-winning Banger Films/National Film Board of Canada (NFB) feature documentary Any Other Way: The Jackie Shane Story is opening in cinemas across Canada beginning August 16, distributed by the NFB. Nashville-born soul singer Jackie Shane boldly carved a new path as one of music’s pioneering Black trans performers—but on the edge of stardom, why did she suddenly leave the spotlight? Any Other Way: The …
Vancouver – Vancouver’s DOXA Documentary Film Festival (May 2–12) will feature extraordinary stories from across Canada with a selection of five deeply personal National Film Board of Canada (NFB) produced and co-produced documentaries. Winnipeg directors Natalie Baird and Toby Gillies’ Don’t Let the Sun Catch You Crying makes its world premiere at DOXA. In this animated short doc, Edith Almadi’s imagination transcends grief, revealing a vibrant world of art where love endures. The festival’s Closing Night film will be BC premiere Any …
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 …
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 …
