Awards
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...
4 interactive projects up for the 2011 FITC People’s Choice Awards
The 2011 FITC (Flash in the Can) Awards are coming up fast and this year the NFB has 4 interactive projects competing for prizes. It’s a People’s Choice Award, which means you decide the winner.
Our 4 projects are:
The Test Tube with David Suzuki (Experimental...
Waterlife and the NFB Films iPhone App nominated for 2010 Webby Awards
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The NFB’s iPhone App has been nominated for a Webby Award in the category of Mobile Web/Best Use of Mobile Video and Waterlife has been nominated in 3 categories: Society/Education, Media/Movie and Film and Society/Green.
The Webbys are one of the few major awards that...
Guy Maddin wins at SXSW
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Night Mayor, the short film Guy Maddin created for the NFB's 70th anniversary, won Best Experimental Short at SXSW this week.
The film tells the story of an immigrant who attempts to harness the power of the Aurora Borealis and uses it to broadcast images...
Waterlife wins SXSW Interactive Award
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Waterlife, an interactive web project based on Kevin McMahon's award-winning film, won the SXSW Interactive Award in the Activism category. The category honours green and non-profit websites that strive to make the world a better place. The winners were announced last night.
Congratulations to the...
4 films nominated for a 2010 Genie Award
We're ecstatic to announce that 4 of our films have been nominated for a 2010 Genie Award. The films are:
Best Feature Length Documentary:
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Best Animated Short:
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The ceremonies will be broadcast on April 12.
Good luck to all the nominees!
The NFB wins at the Canadian New Media Awards
The NFB was honoured this week with two awards at the Canadian New Media Awards which celebrates accomplishments of individuals and companies in the Canadian digital media industry. The NFB was also awarded the 2009 Applied Arts Magazine Interactive Award.
NFB.ca - the NFB's online...
NFB.ca listed in Top 50 Web Designs
The designers at Web50.ca have included NFB.ca in their Top 50 Canadian web designs. We've always loved site design, so it's nice to be recognized by the community like this.
Web50.ca is a collective of web designers whose mission is "to showcase good website design...
NFB nominated for 2 Canadian New Media Awards
A bunch of NFB and NFB co-produced sites were nominated for Canadian New Media Awards last week.
NFB.ca, the NFB Online Screening Room - Best Online Video Portal
Waterlife (waterlife.nfb.ca) - Best Cross-Platform Project
Congratulations also to our co-producers Eyesteel Film (Rip: Remix Manifesto, Best Social Media)...
Tying Your Own Shoes wins Golden Dove Award!
I am absolutely thrilled to announce that Tying Your Own Shoes has won the Golden Dove - the grand prize for short documentary film at the Leipzig Festival! Hooray!!!!!
I am still in shock but wanted to share the happy news!
Congratulations and many thanks to...
HA’Aki and the Golden Nica
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That title sounds a bit like a fairy tale, and in a way, it is. HA’Aki, Iriz Pääbo’s paean to our putative national sport, shinny, is an eccentric gem of a film. This little animated dainty wended its way through the festivals forest, encountering...
