Interactive
Posts related to our interactive content, including interviews with media-makers, behind-the-scenes footage, etc.
2 Ways to Experience Bear 71 at DOXA
Early this May, Vancouver's DOXA Documentary Film Festival will offer 2 different ways to experience our Webby-nominated project, Bear 71 .
On Friday, May 4th - DOXA's opening night - Bear 71 will be projected on a large screen as co-creator Jeremy Mendes navigates through the site, accompanied...
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...
Corner stores and the immigrant experience
How many times a week do you go to the corner store? You may pick up milk or a coffee, buy a case of beer or a lottery ticket, or take money out of the bank machine. Corner stores have replaced the old general store and are now...
New HIGHRISE documentary takes form to new heights
by Katerina Cizek
I used to dislike highrise buildings. I would drive by them, without much thought, and dread the elevator when I actually had to go inside.
These days, I spend most of my time thinking, living, breathing highrises. I’m the director of NFB’s Emmy-award winning HIGHRISE, and last...
Soldier Brother creator Kaitlin Jones on siblings and war
I have only one sibling, a younger brother named Paul. I can't imagine life without him. From our earliest childhood (I remember climbing into his crib at 4 - he would've been 2 and a half - and rocking out to invented songs involving rhythmic jumping and wild...
Tell the stories of objects that surround you with the BARCODE.tv rally
* cet article est aussi disponible en français
BARCODE.tv invites you to dive into the world of the objects that surround us by participating in the Creating Stories About Objects Rally during RIDM, Montréal's international documentary film festival.
The Rally will last 6 days – November 12 to 18. During...
BARCODE.tv – From a Rubik’s cube to the Canadian Space Program
* This post is a translation.
BAR CODE hinges on the concept of “mining” everyday objects for the stories they harbour. Through the project’s website and iPhone app, explore the secret world of day-to-day items by watching the short films triggered by their bar...
BARCODE.tv – NFB animator Theodore Ushev tells the story behind his favourite pen
* This post is a translation. Read the French original here.
BAR CODE hinges on the concept of “mining” everyday objects for the stories they harbour. Through the project’s website and iPhone app, explore the secret world of day-to-day items by watching the short films triggered by...
BARCODE.tv – Designer Denis Gagnon’s glasses
* This post is a translation. Read the French original here.
BAR CODE hinges on the concept of “mining” everyday objects for the stories they harbour. Through the project’s website and iPhone app, explore the secret world of day-to-day items by watching the short films triggered by their bar...
Introducing Barcode.tv, a new interactive doc about the objects that surround us
The interactive documentary Barcode.tv is now online! Co-produced with ARTE France, the project explores our relationship to the objects that surround us. With 100 short films by 30 directors, this collective work for Internet and iPhone aims to shake up our habitual ways of seeing by offering new...
NFB Interactive…A rich resource for students to explore
This post was written by guest blogger Carol Arcus, a former educator with the Toronto District School Board.
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Watching HIGHRISE, I am reminded of Marshall McLuhan, who warned us about the downside of the global village: “When the whole world moves in next door, everyone becomes everyone else’s nosy...
Out My Window and In the Classroom
leah sherry is a media literacy teacher at the Monsignor Fraser Annex Campus in the CICO program, Toronto Catholic District School Board (TCDSB).
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When I first discovered Highrise: Out My Window (OMW) and interactive media, I was excited to fire up the LCD projector and share them with my...
