Industry
For those working in the industry, this section covers film festival news, tips for filmmakers, calls for proposals and more.
NFB Announces New International Documentary Initiative
This morning in Toronto, Tom Perlmutter, the head of the NFB, announced that we will be driving an initiative to launch a new international multi-platform destination for viewing and engaging with the world's best documentaries. The service will be on a subscription basis, and will include new forms...
10 technologies that could revolutionize film
I have a suspicion that my friend Stéphane Jolicoeur (Senior Internet Applications Analyst at the NFB) lives in the future. Not that he time travels like Marty McFly (although I wouldn’t be surprised if he had a DeLorean DMC-12 hidden away somewhere...), but he spends most of his...
Stories We Tell: A post by Sarah Polley
The following is a guest post from filmmaker Sarah Polley about her new film, Stories We Tell.
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Today in Venice my latest film, Stories We Tell, will be screening for the first time. Until now, thanks to the extraordinary decency of many people – including some journalists who have...
Sarah Polley’s Stories We Tell at Venice Days Film Festival and TIFF
Oscar®-nominated director Sarah Polley's latest film Stories We Tell will have its world premiere at the Venice Days Film Festival, followed quickly by a North American premiere at the Toronto International Film Festival.
With this project, Polley offers up a genre-twisting film that playfully excavates layers of myth and...
Open Casting Call for First Nations/Aboriginal Youth
Our friend and NFB alumnus Aisling Chin-Yee (The Colour of Beauty) is producing a new feature film (alongside John Christou) and you could be in it.
The film, titled Rhymes for Young Ghouls tells the story of Aila, a teenage girl growing up on Red Crow Reservation. With her...
Annecy 2012: 2 Winners and a Nominee
* This post is a translation. Read the original here.
The Annecy International Animated Film Festival is the oldest and biggest event of its kind. Bringing together film professionals from around the world, it represents the crème de la crème of international animation. So it’s always with great pride...
Road Movie: An interview with Elle Flanders
*UPDATE (14 June. 2012)*
After remarked appearances at TIFF and the Berlinale, Road Movie is hitting the Prairies. From July 6 to August 18, 2012, the film installation will be exhibited at Winnipeg's prestigious Plug In Institute of Contemporary Art. The exhibition is free.
Additionally, Road Movie co-creators Elle Flanders...
7 Webby Award nominations for NFB/interactive
What do a bear, a parable on human language, a Northern reserve, and a brother in the army have in common?
Why, they're the subjects of the 4 NFB/interactive projects nominated for 2012 Webby Awards, of course!
The Webby Awards, which people sometimes refer to as the "Oscars of the...
The National Film Board of Canada pays tribute to Pierre Juneau
The National Film Board of Canada wishes to acknowledge the significant and lasting contribution made by Pierre Juneau to the NFB and to Canada's radio broadcasting and telecommunications industries. Mr. Juneau died on February 21, 2012, at the age of 89.
During his career at the NFB from 1949...
The NFB at the Annies and the Oscar Nominee Luncheon (PHOTOS)
DAY ONE: The Annie Awards
My lovely and talented producing colleague, Marcy Page, and I have been in LA for the past few days on an adventure entirely new to anyone at the NFB. Accompanied by 3 inestimably gifted filmmakers—Patrick Doyon, Amanda Forbis and Wendy Tilby—we came here to...
Watch the Annie Awards live on Saturday, Feb. 4 on NFB.ca
On Saturday, February 4 at 7 pm (pacific time), the International Animated Film Society, ASIFA-Hollywood, will present the 39th Annual Annie Awards in Los Angeles, California and this year, we're proud to announce that we'll be broadcasting the live-stream directly from this blog post.
The Annie Awards honour excellence...
Making music for animation: A masterclass with Luigi Allemano
A while back, we shared with you a handful of quick tips for making music for your animation films. The tips had been carefully prepared by composer Luigi Allemano, who knows quite a lot about these things, seeing that (as his website informs us), his work has appeared...
