US premiere of Christopher Auchter’s NFB documentary The Stand 

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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 …

Filmmaker Justin Simms’ NFB documentary Sons premieres online Jan 20

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Montreal – How do we teach our boys to become better men? Newfoundland director Justin Simms tries to answer this vital question throughout his National Film Board of Canada (NFB) feature documentary Sons, which premieres January 20 on nfb.ca and the NFB’s streaming platform for smart TVs. Set against the backdrop of his son’s first five years of life—from cooing infant to hurricane of a boy—Simms looks at modern masculinity through the lens of …