documentaries
20 Must-Read Blogs for Film Buffs
Films, like food, are one of those things that are almost as nice to take in as they are to read about (as opposed to say, falling in love or winning the lotto.) With this in mind, we decided to compile a list of...
Staycation Education!
* This is a guest post by Lindsay Wright, Manager, National Education Programs
School’s out but our films are still hard at work. The upcoming March break is the perfect time to check out some hidden gems on CAMPUS!
Get started by exploring one...
Friday staff pick: RiP! A Remix Manifesto
Hi everyone! My name’s Kate Ruscito and I’m the newly minted English Community Manager for the NFB. I was asked to do another Friday Cinema post, so I humbly present to you my favorite doc from our vaults: RiP!
When I first started working at...
DOXA Connexions: The Black Market
This post was written by one of the young women participating in the 2011 Kris Anderson DOXA Youth Connexions Forum, as part of the DOXA Documentary Film Festival. "Connexions" is an immersive 2-week program where 6 selected emerging female filmmakers create 6 short films...
DOXA Connexions: Justice Forum at DOXA (The Pruitt-Igoe Myth: An Urban History)
This post was written by one of the young women participating in the 2011 Kris Anderson DOXA Youth Connexions Forum, as part of the DOXA Documentary Film Festival. "Connexions" is an immersive 2-week program where 6 selected emerging female filmmakers create 6 short films...
DOXA Connextions: A Mixed Bag of Nuts
This post was written by one of the young women participating in the 2011 Kris Anderson DOXA Youth Connexions Forum, as part of the DOXA Documentary Film Festival. "Connexions" is an immersive 2-week program where 6 selected emerging female filmmakers create 6 short films...
Kris Anderson DOXA Youth Connexions
DOXA and the National Film Board of Canada are proud to once again present the Kris Anderson Connexions Youth Forum, an educational program designed to foster documentary filmmaking and storytelling skills in youth between the ages of 19 and 26 who...
NFB launches BlackBerry Playbook app
RIM launched its new BlackBerry® PlayBook™ and we're proud to announce that it includes an NFB films app - right out of the box. The app was co-developed by RIM and the NFB.
The new tablet offers free access to NFB films, including our mobile...
Pour la suite du monde: The Perrault Classic in English
Since the NFB’s inception, we have been mandated to make as many films as possible available in both official languages.
In the early days, a new voiceover would suffice to create the French version of an English film, and vice versa. In the 1950s, films...
6 NFB films selected for Hot Docs 2011
Hot Docs, America’s largest documentary festival, selected and announced the 2011 line-up last week. Some 200 films garnered the attention of the festival’s programmers and the NFB will make a strong showing with 6 films.
World premieres
Produced by Parabola Films with the NFB’s participation, St-Henri,...
NFB Films for Android now available!
Yes, the day has come - our NFB Films for the Android is now available! After the tremendous success of our iPhone app (named one of the best apps of 2009 by The Apple Blog!), we are now releasing the first Canadian film app...
The Pattern of Man: Enduring Wilderness and National Park History
This post was written by Dr. Claire Campbell, a professor of History and Canadian Studies at Dalhousie University in Halifax. It is the first post in a series on Ernest Reid's 1963 film, Enduring Wilderness, written by contributors to the forthcoming A Century of...
