Montreal – The National Film Board of Canada (NFB) is featuring powerful and thought-provoking free programming on nfb.ca throughout the month of May. The NFB website will feature five online premieres in May, along with Asian Heritage Month special programming. In total, nfb.ca now offers more than 6,500 online films and a collection of more than 100 interactive works. Starting May 1 | Asian Heritage Month | Online premiere, NFB channels and a new Curator’s Perspective …
Montreal – The NFB is making an impressive return to Montreal’s Sommets du cinéma d’animation (May 6–11), with 11 productions and co-productions screening as world premieres—including Le tableau (The Painting), by Michèle Lemieux, made with the famous Alexeïeff-Parker pinscreen, and LOCA, by Véronique Paquette. The festival’s closing film will be Loïc Darses’ Graver l’homme: arrêt sur Pierre Hébert (Scratches of Life: The Art of Pierre Hébert). Additionally, filmmaker Arash Akhgari will be giving an Artist’s Talk about …
Montreal – The National Film Board of Canada (NFB) is ushering in spring with great free programming on nfb.ca through the month of March. The NFB website offers 9 online premieres this month, with powerful new documentaries, dazzling auteur animated shorts and a mind-expanding mobile game. With Nisha Pahuja’s To Kill a Tiger nominated for the Academy Award for Documentary Feature Film, nfb.ca will take a special look at the NFB at the Oscars. As the NFB prepares to mark the 50th anniversary …
Montreal – For the 19th year in a row, the National Film Board of Canada is taking part in the Rendez-vous de la Francophonie (RVF), the theme of which this year is the joy of discovery. And the NFB is sure to spark joy in audiences, because throughout this epic celebration of francophone culture in Canada, presented from March 1 to 31, five documentary and animation programs for all ages will be available …
Montreal – For the 16th year, the National Film Board of Canada (NFB) is bringing together filmmakers, NFB producers and creative teams from across the country to create short cinematic tributes to Canadian performing arts legends, as the Governor General’s Performing Arts Awards (GGPAA) gets set to honour seven new laureates. Acclaimed filmmakers Gilles Doiron, Michelle Mama and Will Prosper will be directing. The films will premiere at the GGPAA Gala, June …
Montreal – The National Film Board of Canada joins the lineup of the 42nd Rendez-vous Québec Cinéma (RVQC) with 10 productions and co-productions, including the feature documentary Malartic by Nicolas Paquet, making its world premiere during a blue carpet event, and the documentary series Maisonneuve by Jean-Martin Gagnon, presented for the first time on the big screen. Both screenings will be attended by the directors and the films’ subjects. The first film—a follow-up to Paquet’s 2011 documentary La règle …
Montreal – National Film Board of Canada (NFB) Former distinguished National Film Board of Canada (NFB) animation producer Marcy Page is one of this year’s recipients of the Winsor McCay Award honouring “unparalleled achievement and exceptional contributions to animation,” presented February 17, 2024, at the 51st Annie Awards by ASIFA-Hollywood, the Los Angeles branch of the International Animated Film Association. “On behalf of the National Film Board of Canada, congratulations …
Montreal – The National Film Board of Canada (NFB) is announcing the closure of its Vancouver and Montreal interactive studios. As a result of this decision, $3.5 million dollars will be reinvested in the NFB: $1.5 million in additional funding for documentary and animation production and $2 million for innovation initiatives aimed at improving our production and distribution methods and increasing audience …
Montreal – The National Film Board of Canada will be among the contenders for top awards at this year’s Clermont-Ferrand International Short Film Festival, with two powerful films that were selected from more than 9,400 submissions. Romane Garant Chartrand’s documentary Après-coups (Afterwards) will have its international premiere in the International Competition, while the animated short Miserable Miracle by Ryo Orikasa, a Miyu Productions/NFB/New Deer co-production, will screen in the Lab Competition. The renowned festival will be held from February 2 to 10, 2024. It is the largest …
Montreal – Making its world premiere at the International Film Festival Rotterdam, the bold new National Film Board of Canada (NFB) production A Man Imagined captures the bitter day-to-day life of a man who is routinely overlooked and often feared, in a “documentary fable” by the maverick filmmaking duo of Brian M. Cassidy and Melanie Shatzky. A Man Imagined will be presented as part of the festival’s Short & Mid-length program, which will take place from Friday, …
