Toronto – Several award-winning National Film Board of Canada (NFB) films produced and co-produced documentaries will be featured at DOC NYC in New York City, from November 13 to December 1, 2024. Shorts: Our Bodies section November 16, 2024, 11:15am, Village East by Angelika November 17, 2024, 9:30pm, Village East by Angelika Am I the skinniest person you’ve ever seen by Eisha Marjara (22 …
Montreal – The Musée d’art contemporain de Montréal (MAC) and the National Film Board of Canada (NFB) unveiled the MAC’s brand-new exhibition, Alanis Obomsawin: The Children Have to Hear Another Story, recently that will continue till January 26, 2025, in the . The exhibition dedicated to the work of Abenaki documentary filmmaker, activist, and singer Alanis Obomsawin, one of the most acclaimed Indigenous …
Toronto – How do we teach our boys to become better men? Newfoundland director Justin Simms tries to answer this vital question throughout his National Film Board of Canada (NFB) feature documentary Sons, which will have its world premiere in St. John’s on November 8, followed by community screenings in Clarenville (Nov. 20) and Bonavista (Nov. 21). Set against the backdrop of his son’s first five years of life—from cooing infant to hurricane of a boy—Simms looks at modern …
Montreal – The National Film Board of Canada (NFB) will be at the 27th Montreal International Documentary Festival (RIDM). Wilfred Buck by Lisa Jackson (92 min) – Quebec premiere Co-produced by Lisa Jackson and Lauren Grant (Door Number 3 Productions) and Alicia Smith (NFB). Executive producers: Jennifer Baichwal, Nicholas de Pencier and David Christensen (NFB). Press kit: mediaspace.nfb.ca/epk/wilfred-buck A Top 5 Audience Favourite at this year’s Hot Docs, the film …
Moncton – The National Film Board of Canada (NFB) returns to the Festival international du cinéma francophone en Acadie (FICFA) with two documentaries. 50 years of French NFB film production in Acadie Opening night will also highlight this major milestone in Acadian and French-Canadian cinema, with Suzanne Guèvremont, Government Film Commissioner and Chairperson of the NFB, and Nathalie Cloutier, Executive Producer of the NFB’s French Documentary Unit, in attendance. In 1974, the NFB launched francophone film …
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. America’s largest documentary film festival, DOC NYC will host the NYC premieres of two NFB co-produced feature docs: A Mother Apart (Oya Media Group/NFB) by Laurie Townshend accompaniesBrooklyn-based Jamaican-American poet and LGBTQ+ activist Staceyann Chin as she re-imagines the essential art of mothering—having …
Ottawa – As of November 4, the National Film Board of Canada and Telefilm Canada will be sharing the office space currently occupied by the NFB production team at 5475 Spring Garden Road in downtown Halifax. Sharing space will promote synergy between the two organizations and benefit Atlantic Canadian filmmakers, partners and producers, who will be able to meet with Canada’s two …
Toronto – An immersive cinematic experience that transforms our understanding of wildfire, Nova Ami and Velcrow Ripper’s National Film Board of Canada (NFB) feature documentary Incandescence will have its world premiere at the 25th Planet in Focus International Environmental Film Festival in Toronto, which takes place this year from October 15 to 20. Wildfires are burning with increasing intensity around the world. Following the rhythms of the seasons, Incandescence weaves stunning on-the-ground footage with extraordinary stories of survival and adaptation. Made in collaboration with firefighters and impacted communities, the …
Toronto – Two powerful and award-winning documentaries from the National Film Board of Canada (NFB) will be featured at the 2024 Rendezvous with Madness Film Festival in Toronto, taking place October 25 to November 3. The festival’s opening night film, Vancouver-based filmmaker Jules Arita Koostachin’s WaaPaKe (Tomorrow) unravels the tangled threads of silence suffered by residential school Survivors through truth, freedom and power. The festival will host the Ontario premiere of Montreal filmmakers Brian M. Cassidy and Melanie …
Montreal – Beginning November 12, 2024, Thao Lam and Kjell Boersma’s acclaimed new National Film Board of Canada (NFB) animated short Boat People will be featured in season seven of POV Shorts—a collection of the best and boldest independent short films streaming free of charge on POV.org and on the PBS App. POV Shorts will be airing on PBS affiliate stations—check local listings. Canadians can also continue to enjoy Boat People on the NFB’s free online screening platform, nfb.ca. About the film …
