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 …
Montreal – Five years in the making, the National Film Board of Canada (NFB) feature documentary Arab Women Say What?! by Alberta-based Egyptian-Canadian filmmaker Nisreen Baker will premiere this fall. The film will have its world premiere on October 20 when it opens the 2023 Calgary Arab Film Nights festival at Calgary’s Globe Cinema. On November 1, Arab Women Say What?! premieres in Montreal at a free screening at UQAM’s Salon de la …
Toronto – The 2023 Reelworld Film Festival in Toronto (November 1 to 7) will showcase powerful and intimate stories from National Film Board of Canada (NFB) creators, with premieres of Thao Lam and Kjell Boersma’s animated short documentary Boat People and the feature documentary Lay Down Your Heart, directed by Marie Clements and written by Clements and Niall McNeil. Working with the NFB’s Ontario Studio in Toronto as well as the …
Montreal – The National Film Board of Canada (NFB) has greenlit 16 productions and co-productions between January and June 2023. Nine new feature-length documentary films and seven new animated shorts are now underway at studios across the country, reflecting the NFB’s strengths in longform non-fiction and acclaimed auteur animation. For more information on these and other projects currently in the works …
Vancouver – The 2023 Vancouver International Film Festival (VIFF) has presented the world premiere of the feature-length documentary WaaPaKe (Tomorrow), directed by Vancouver-based filmmaker Dr. Jules Arita Koostachin. Produced by the National Film Board of Canada (NFB) at the BC & Yukon Studio, Koostachin’s deeply personal film unravels the tangled threads of silence suffered by residential school Survivors through truth, freedom and …
Montreal – With 19 productions or co-productions in the official selection, including four in competition, the National Film Board of Canada will be in the spotlight at the 2023 Ottawa International Animation Festival (OIAF). This year, the lineup of NFB projects features artists from the Greater Ottawa Region, among others, and the films in competition are inspired by literary works, poetry, children’s books, and songs. The largest festival …
Montreal — The National Film Board of Canada (NFB) has committed to ensuring that by March 31, 2025, over 30% of its productions and co-productions underway at that time will be directed by artists and filmmakers who self-identify as Black and People of Colour.* This figure represents the minimum expected outcome, as the NFB continues to evolve and adapt to Canadian …
World premieres of Heather Campbell’s short doc Miss Campbell: Inuk Teacher, feature documentaries A Quiet Girl by Adrian Wills and Stolen Time by Helene Klodawsky, and Ryo Orikasa’s animated short Miserable Miracle Halifax – The National Film Board of Canada (NFB) will bring eight heart-felt, profound and eye-opening documentaries and animated films to festival goers at the 2023 Atlantic International Film Festival (AIFF) in Halifax—including three deeply personal stories from …
Toronto – The National Film Board of Canada (NFB) selection at the 2023 Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF), taking place September 7 to 17, will feature compelling documentary and animated storytelling from emerging filmmakers. The festival’s Short Cuts program is presenting world premieres of NFB short films that explore the mysteries of the natural world and evoke the fragility of human …
