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4 NFB films selected at the Atlantic Film Festival

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Four of our productions have been selected at the Atlantic Film Festival (AFF). Held every September in Halifax, Nova Scotia, AFF is Canada’s 4th major film festival. Presenting itself as “large enough to attract the world’s most notable actors, directors and producers, but intimate enough to be Canada’s kitchen party Festival”, this year’s festival will unfold from September 16 to 25, 2010.

The selected films are the following:

Flawed, by Andrea Dorfman

(You can find another excerpt from Flawed here.)

Little Thunder, by Nance Ackerman and Alan Syliboy

A Drummer’s Dream, by John Walker

(You can find 5 excerpts from A Drummer’s Dream here.)

Waseteg, by Phyllis Grant

Congratulations and a great festival to all!

Enter the Celebrate Parks video contest

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What’s your favourite Canadian national park? I got several. This is a photo I took in one of  them last summer – Georgian Bay Islands National Park, on Ontario’s Lake Huron.

This sort of conversation is what the Canadian Parks and Wilderness Society is hoping to stimulate with a new contest called Celebrate…

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Three NFB films selected at TIFF

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The summer is drawing to a close and that means the Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF) is just around the corner. One of the world’s most happening film festivals (film critic Roger Ebert once said that if Cannes remains the greatest, Toronto is more useful and important), TIFF will unfold September 9 to 19, 2010.…

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Filmmaker Ann Marie Fleming on mentoring Hothouse animators

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Hothouse is a 12-week paid apprenticeship program for emerging filmmakers that has been taking place in the NFB’s Montreal Animation Studio since 2003. Each year, a different filmmaker is chosen to mentor the participants through the project.

This spring, 6 participants were given 3 months to produce a short animation film in stereoscopic-3D,…

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Tulku director Gesar Mukpo on first-person filmmaking and reincarnation

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Tulku is a full-length NFB documentary that tells the story of Western tulkus, young people born in modern Western cultures who were recognized, when they were children, as reincarnations of great Tibetan Buddhist masters.

Filmmaker Gesar Mukpo is one of them and Tulku is his own deeply personal film. In the documentary, he…

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