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Colin Low: Special screenings at Montreal’s Cinémathèque québécoise
Starting tomorrow and running until Saturday, April 14, the Cinémathèque québécoise and Hors Champs will present an hommage to veteran NFB filmmaker Colin Low. Each night boasts a different program, and the lineup is as follows:
April 12 at 6:30 pm: Corral (1954), Universe (1960)...
Feature film on Canada’s most famous unknown author premieres at FIFA
The Mystery of Mazo de la Roche, our new feature film about enigmatic Canadian writer Mazo de la Roche (author of the Jalna novels), has its world premiere at FIFA (International Festival of Films on Art) this Saturday March 17.
Starring Severn Thompson as Mazo...
Friday staff pick: The Coca-Cola Case
* This is a guest post by Karine Ligneau, Director's Office Assistant, Human Resources
At first glance, the soft drink in the red package seems quite inoffensive. However, we learn in The Coca-Cola case that its hidden contents consist of unacceptable working conditions, murder and...
Churchill’s Island: The National Film Board’s First Oscar Winner
On February 26, 1942, National Film Board of Canada Commissioner John Grierson accepted the Academy Award for documentary short for the film Churchill’s Island. Originally produced for a Canadian audience as part of the Canada Carries On series of newsreels, the film would make...
Friday staff pick: CBQM
* This is a guest post by NFB intern and emerging Métis filmmaker, Sarah Hager.
As the newest intern at the Pacific and Yukon Centre, I’ve decided to completely immerse myself in NFB films and to watch as many as I can during my time...
Pink Ribbons, Inc: Breast cancer and cause marketing
Next week our latest doc Pink Ribbons, Inc. opens in theatres across Canada. We've written about the film several times here, and we've been talking about it for months. It's a critical look at the industry that has grown up around breast cancer, and...
Catch Léa Pool’s Pink Ribbons, Inc. in a theatre near you starting February 3rd
After premiering at TIFF, where it was named one of the TOP 10 films, Léa Pool's much anticipated film on the "industry of breast cancer", Pink Ribbons, Inc., opens in Canadian theatres February 3, 2012.
The feature documentary, which early reviews called "eloquent", "stunning", "alarming"...
Sidebar banners now available for Pink Ribbons, Inc.
On February 3, our new documentary Pink Ribbons, Inc. opens in theatres across Canada. The film deals with how breast cancer has become the poster child for cause-related marketing campaigns and the effect this has had on the disease, the search for the cure...
Filming war: an interview with producer Jacques Turgeon
*This post is a translation. Read the original French post here.
In March an NFB team travelled to Afghanistan to document daily life as experienced by soldiers of the 22e Regiment, the Van Doos, serving in the heat of the conflict.
Using footage from this visit,...
Unikkausivut – Sharing our Stories launches in Iqaluit, Nunavut
* Photo, from left to right: Tom Perlmutter, Eva Aariak, Christopher Duschenes, Claude Joli-Coeur and Julie Huguet.
On Monday, we launched Unikkausivut – Sharing our Stories, at Nunavut’s Legislative Building in Iqaluit. If you’ve never been to Nunavut, or haven’t been there recently, the Legislative Building...
Celebrating National Media Literacy Week
This week (November 7-11) is National Media Literacy Week, a week to highlight the importance of thinking critically about media. This year’s theme is Digital Citizenship. Media Literacy Week is especially relevant at the NFB because we have always believed (and our films will...
World Premiere of The Van Doos in Afghanistan on NFB.ca
This post is a translation from French. You can see the original post here.
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Edited on November 11, 2011: Due to overwhelming demand, especially on ONF.ca, we have decided to leave the film The Van Doos in Afghanistan online, for free, until Monday morning, November...
