Montreal – Michael Mabbott and Lucah Rosenberg-Lee’s feature doc Any Other Way: The Jackie Shane Story, a Banger Films/National Film Board of Canada (NFB) co-production, was selected to screen at the 2025 Festival international de programmes audiovisuels documentaires de Biarritz (FIPADOC) in France. The film was screened at competition in the musical documentary section of the festival, recently. This tribute to a trans soul-singing legend has garnered over 15 awards …
Montreal – Two legendary figures in National Film Board of Canada animation, composer and sound designer Normand Roger and animator and producer Eunice Macaulay, will be honoured by ASIFA-Hollywood with its Winsor McCay Award for career achievement, to be presented at the 52nd Annie Awards on Saturday, February 8, 2025. The International Animated Film Society/ASIFA-Hollywood is a California nonprofit organization established over 35 years ago to promote and encourage the art and craft …
Montreal –For the 22nd edition of Nuit blanche à Montréal, join us on Saturday, March 1, for an eventful evening of fun and free activities in the NFB’s public spaces! Take in our most POPular shorts for all ages, screening in a loop at the Alanis Obomsawin Theatre. In an activity presented with the participation of the STM, enjoy a POP-UP, behind-the-scenes experience with The Girl with the Red Beret, a joyous, heartwarming …
Vancouver – Haida filmmaker Christopher Auchter’s National Film Board of Canada (NFB) feature documentary The Stand will have its US premiere at the Big Sky Documentary Film Festival, which takes place February 14 to 23 in Missoula, Montana. Award-winning director Christopher Auchter will be there in person at the festival, which has programmed The Stand as its centrepiece film on Monday, February 17—one of its featured prime-time slots. The Stand has been selected as one of 10 finalists in the Best …
Montreal – The National Film Board (NFB) is pleased to announce the return of its Filmmaker Assistance Program (FAP), which supports English-speaking independent filmmakers across the country. Applications may be submitted to the NFB beginning January 30. Since being established, the FAP has supported hundreds of independent filmmakers, in keeping with the NFB’s mandate as a public producer and distributor. The return of the …
Montreal – More NFB productions and co-productions than ever will be free to view on nfb.ca this February, with the online launch of three powerful and wide-ranging documentaries: Dominique Leclerc’s Posthumans, about the ethical challenges of technologies designed to outsmart disease, aging and death; Brian M. Cassidy and Melanie Shatzky’s A Man Imagined, which examines the raw reality of a man living on the fringes; and David Hamelin and Melaina Sheldon’s Northlore, about the deep connection between the people of Canada’s …
Montreal – The National Film Board of Canada (NFB) will be represented in the 2025 Rendez-vous Québec Cinéma (RVQC) program with eight productions, including two feature-length films making their world premieres: Jenny Cartwright’s Les perdants (A Losing Game), selected as the festival’s opening film, which probes our electoral system and the ways in which it is dysfunctional; and Dominique Leclerc’s Posthumains (Posthumans), a look at the ethical challenges of technologies designed to outsmart disease, …
Montreal – Black History Month activities by the National Film Board of Canada (NFB) in February will feature screenings and events in the heart of Montreal’s Quartier des Spectacles and communities across Canada—along with a rich selection of special online programming. The legacy of trailblazing Black musicians will be in the spotlight this month thanks to two new major works by NFB filmmakers: Michael Mabbott and Lucah Rosenberg-Lee’s multi-award-winning Banger Films/NFB documentary Any Other Way: The Jackie Shane Story and Graeme Mathieson and Chris Flanagan’s short doc series Sounds …
Montreal – The National Film Board is pleased to announce the return of its Aide au cinéma indépendant du Canada (ACIC) program, which supports French-speaking independent filmmakers across the country. Applications may be submitted to the NFB beginning January 30. Details are available here. Established by the NFB more than 50 years ago in keeping with its mandate as a public producer and …
Montreal – The National Film Board of Canada (NFB) is mourning the passing of veteran animator, director and film producer Robert Verrall, who died in Montreal on January 17, at the age of 97. Born in Toronto on January 13, 1928, Verrall was one of the early generation of Canadian film pioneers at the NFB, where he worked for more than …
