Canada
A cross-Canada adventure to showcase CAMPUS!
From January to March of this year, NFB National Workshop Facilitator Jessie Curell travelled across Canada, connecting with as many educators as possible, and telling them about the National Film Board of Canada and CAMPUS, the new home of NFB Education launched on January...
5 NFB films to celebrate Canada Water Week
Every year around March or April, as I try to fight back end-of-winter sluggishness and pounce face-first into spring, I vow to start drinking more water. Water is life, as we all know, and drinking a lot of it is one of the cheapest...
NFB Films at Rendez-vous de la Francophonie 2011
150 screenings in 62 cities across Canada! Now that’s a full slate of films. From March 4 to 20, the National Film Board is participating in the Rendez-vous de la Francophonie’s annual celebration of French culture, screening films from coast to coast for the...
NFB Tour: Saskatoon
There was something wrong with the plane we were supposed to take to Saskatoon, so our pre-dawn flight turned out being a somewhat civilized mid-morning flight, except we’d all gotten up at 4 AM anyway. Some mechanical part had to be flown in from...
NFB Tour: On the road again
The other day, my boss called me into his office and said something that caused me to erupt into a little dance. “Weldon. The President is going on Tour, as you know, and I’ve decided to send you along to blog and take pictures.”...
Get Animated! kicks off Oct. 28 with free screenings and animation workshops across Canada
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Next Thursday is International Animation Day and the NFB is marking the occasion with a series of free screenings, master classes and activities - from coast to coast. Get Animated! (October 28 - November 7, 2010) has a little of everything for everyone,...
The NFB Tour continues in Ontario on October 26
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The above film, Toughing it out in Timmins, is a photo essay from the GDP project about the forestry industry in Timmins.
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Tom Perlmutter, head of the NFB, will be kicking off the Ontario leg of the NFB Tour in Timmins on October 26, followed...
The NFB hits the road – and is coming to a city near you!
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Tom Perlmutter, the head of the NFB, is heading out on a cross-Canada tour. The tour is meant to allow him, and the NFB, to connect with Canadians. He'll talk about the new directions we're heading in, take your questions and talk...
Glimpses/Impressions opens at Expo 2010 Shanghai
It's a go! The 2010 World Fair was launched this weekend in Shanghai, China, under the theme "Better City - Better Life".
Canada's exhibition, titled "The Living City: Inclusive, Sustainable, Creative" will be hosted in the Canada Pavilion until October 31, 2010.
This year again, Canada's...
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!
On Common Ground: Eliminating Child Poverty is something we can all agree on
Whenever I’m overwhelmed by contrast, by conflict, I contemplate one of my favourite lines, a string of words conjured by 13th-century Persian Poet Rumi: “Out beyond ideas of right-doing and wrong-doing, there is a field. I will meet you there.”
It doesn’t matter that I...
