Montreal – Vibrant new NFB productions will be launched in August: Audrey Nantel-Gagnon’s short Fire-Jo-Ball will be online as of August 2 and the documentary series Sounds & Pressure: Reggae in a Foreign Land, by Graeme Mathieson and Chris Flanagan, will have its premiere on nfb.ca on August 23, the day after a special launch event in Toronto. The month of August is also packed with cultural and social happenings, and nfb.ca is a great place to explore current …
Montreal – The National Film Board of Canada is returning to the Festival Plein(s) Écran(s) with two award-wining shorts: Audrey Nantel-Gagnon’s documentary Fire-Jo-Ball, selected as the closing film in the Quebec Competition, and Janice Nadeau’s animated short HARVEY (NFB/Folimage), which will screen in the Family Section. The festival takes place online from January 16 to 28, 2024, with some in-person screenings programmed as well. Quick Facts Quebec Competition – Closing film Fire-Jo-Ball by Audrey Nantel-Gagnon (16 min 54 s) Produced …
Halifax – The 2023 St. John’s International Women’s Film Festival (October 17–21) will highlight intimate stories from Labrador Inuit communities and Quebec, with three short docs by women creators from the National Film Board of Canada (NFB). Inuit stories from Labrador The festival will feature the St. John’s premieres of two works by artists from the NFB’s Labrador Doc Project, an initiative of the Quebec & Atlantic Studio to amplify first-time …
