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, …
Montreal – The National Film Board of Canada would like to recognize the recipient of the 2023 Albert Tessier Award: acclaimed documentarian Tahani Rached. She will be receiving the award today at 4:30 p.m., at the official Prix du Québec ceremony at Palais Montcalm in Quebec City. The Albert Tessier Award is the highest honour in Quebec cinema, celebrating the recipient’s lifetime achievement and the importance of their …
Montreal – The National Film Board of Canada (NFB) has a wealth of free streaming at nfb.ca through the month of December, including online premieres of two acclaimed documentaries and timely programming. Phil Comeau’s feature doc The Secret Order kicks things off with an online premiere November 28, followed by Nisha Pahuja’s multi-award-winning Notice Pictures/NFB co-production To Kill a Tiger, debuting on nfb.ca on December 5. It’s also a month of powerful …
Montreal – Over a legendary career spanning five decades, Abenaki filmmaker and activist Alanis Obomsawin has chronicled the hopes and struggles of Indigenous Peoples in their historic fight for their rights. She’s been an inspiration for generations of Indigenous creators and a trailblazer in women’s cinema since she began to make films at the National Film Board of Canada (NFB) in 1967—receiving virtually every major Canadian …
Vancouver – Our everyday lives, hopes and dreams are juxtaposed against the tectonic shifts of the planet in Claire Sanford and Josephine Anderson’s powerful National Film Board of Canada (NFB) immersive experience Texada, making its world premiere in the DocLab Competition for Immersive Non-Fiction at the International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam (IDFA DocLab), taking place November 8 to 19. To make Texada, Sanford and Anderson merged live-action footage filmed across the remote mining community of Texada Island …
