US premiere of Nova Ami, Velcrow Ripper’s Incandescence at Santa Barbara Int’ls Film Festival

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Vancouver –  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 US premiere at the 40th Santa Barbara International Film Festival, which takes place February 4 to 15, 2025. Wildfires are burning with increasing intensity around the world. Following the rhythms of the seasons, Incandescence weaves on-the-ground footage with extraordinary stories of courage and community. Made in collaboration with firefighters and impacted communities, the film takes shape from …

Kim O’Bomsawin’s Ninan Auassat: We, Children s creening in Montreal starting February 7

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Montreal – Abenaki filmmaker Kim O’Bomsawin’s feature-length documentary Ninan Auassat: Nous, les enfants (Ninan Auassat: We, the Children), produced by the NFB, hits theatres in Montreal on Friday, February 7, screening at the Cinéma du Musée with English subtitles and the Cinémathèque Québécoise in its original version. A moving film that gives Indigenous youth the opportunity to speak for themselves, Ninan Auassat won the Tides Award for Best Canadian Documentary at the Vancouver International Film Festival (VIFF) and the Magnus Isacsson Award at the Montreal …

7 NFB-produced films featured at Canada’s largest film festival Available Light Film Festival

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Vancouver –  The Available Light Film Festival in Whitehorse will feature two world premieres from Yukon creators as part of a selection of five powerful new works from the National Film Board of Canada (NFB). The Available Light Film Festival runs from February 7 to 16, 2025, in the territorial capital. Festival goers will be treated to unique local stories by Whitehorse filmmakers, with David Hamelin and Melaina Sheldon’s Fireside Films/NFB-co-produced feature doc Northlore and Jessica Hall’s NFB short doc Saturday both screening …

BC filmmakers lead as NFB showcases documentary, animation in Victoria

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Vancouver – The rich and diverse talents of British Columbia filmmakers will be on vivid display in the National Film Board of Canada (NFB) selection at the 2025 Victoria Film Festival (VFF), which takes place February 7 to 16. Eight NFB-produced or co-produced features and shorts have been selected by VFF, with four works by BC-based directors Nova Ami and Velcrow Ripper, Christopher Auchter, Yuqi Kang and Amanda Strong. Films by BC directors Incandescence by Nova Ami and Velcrow Ripper (105 …

NFB’s Alanis Obomsawin Theatre is now even more accessible

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Montreal – Free films, first-come, first-wowed! After the Holidays, continue your family get-togethers or round up some friends and come see recent gems from the NFB collection on the big screen in Montreal. Starting Thursday, January 9, we’re presenting five free public screenings at the NFB’s Alanis Obomsawin Theatre in the heart of the Quartier des Spectacles. No reservations required, but seating is limited. See you there! For full details, visit events.nfb.ca/hello-film-free-screenings-at-the-nfb. Quick Facts All screenings begin …

Montreal Critics’ Week-NFB present at first edition: A Man Imagined

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Montreal – The NFB will be part of the very first Semaine de la critique de Montréal (Montreal Critics’ Week), taking place from January 13 to 19, 2025, at the Cinémathèque Québécoise and Cinéma Moderne. The newly minted festival will host the Montreal premiere of Brian M. Cassidy and Melanie Shatzky’s “documentary fable” A Man Imagined (Un homme imaginé) in its opening program. Montreal is the filmmakers’ hometown and the film’s shooting location. Capturing the day-to-day life of a decades-long street survivor, this bold …

NFB films win two awards at RIDM 2024

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Montreal –  The National Film Board of Canada (NFB) is pleased to announce that two of its productions have won an award at the 27th Montreal International Documentary Festival (RIDM). This year’s closing film, Ninan Auassat: Nous, les enfants (Ninan Auassat: We, the Children, NFB), a celebration of the power and vitality of Indigenous youth by Abenaki filmmaker Kim O’Bomsawin, won the Magnus Isacsson Award. Anishinaabe filmmaker Lisa Wilfred Buck (Door Number 3 Productions/NFB), which follows …

Rythmetic: Compositions of Norman McLaren now available to purchase

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Montreal –  About 13 groundbreaking Norman McLaren compositions have been brought together for the first time in Rythmetic: The Compositions of Norman McLaren, released by Phantom Limb (UK/EU) and We Are Busy Bodies (US/Canada/world), in collaboration with the National Film Board of Canada (NFB). Now available on vinyl, compact disc and streaming, Rythmetic: The Compositions of Norman McLaren represents an essential overview of the pioneering musical compositions of this legendary figure in animation, who has been called “the first electronic musician.” …

National Film Board of Canada animated short Boat People now available worldwide

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Montreal – Thao Lam and Kjell Boersma’s multi-award winning National Film Board of Canada (NFB) animated short Boat People is being featured as a Staff Pick on Vimeo, has already started. Boat People is also available in Canada on nfb.ca and YouTube, and in the US on POV.org and the PBS app. Boat People has been selected by more than 40 festivals around the world, receiving 10 awards to date including the Helen Hill Award for Animated Short at the New Orleans Film Festival, a short-films qualifying festival for the 97th Academy Awards. “We’re …

Lisa Jackson’s Wilfred Buck screening at RIDM on Nov 22 & 24

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Montreal – The National Film Board of Canada (NFB) is pleased to remind audiences about upcoming screenings of the feature film Wilfred Buck (Door Number 3 Productions/NFB), by Anishinaabe filmmaker Lisa Jackson, at the 27th Montreal International Documentary Festival (RIDM), taking place November 20 to December 1, 2024. The film will be having its Quebec premiere in the Magnus Isacsson Competition on November 22 at 8:30 p.m., at the Cinéma du Musée (original version with French subtitles). A second screening is …