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 of Canada to Canadians.
Read an interview with Guy Maddin here.
Watch the making of Night Mayor:
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 entire team and our partners!
The NFB Doc Summit is looking for submissions from presenters that address recommendations, proposed policies and/or strategies for the Canadian documentary industry. This year’s event takes place on Friday, May 7 during the Hot Docs festival in Toronto.
The NFB Doc Summit brings together key stakeholders to discuss the challenges and opportunities ahead and to brainstorm on what the industry will look like when it’s at its best.
The deadline for submissions is next Wednesday, March 17, 2010. Visit the website for details.
Have you seen our Waterlife Interactive site? Check it out and if you like what you see, vote for it at this year’s SXSW People’s Choice Awards.
The site is nominated for a SXSW Interactive Award (Activism) and as such is eligible for the Peoples’ Choice Award. You don’t need to be going to SXSW to vote – heck, you don’t even need to register on the site. Even better, you can vote multiple times – as long as its not on the same day.
The award goes to the finalist that gets the most votes from the web community (that’s you!), so start voting. Polls close this Friday.
Thank you!
We have 2 family passes to Sunday’s premiere screening of Higglety Pigglety Pop! or There Must Be More to Life to give away (4 tickets per pass). For a chance to win, answer the following question in the comment section below:
What recent film was inspired by another story from the American author Maurice Sendak?
Comments must be posted before noon tomorrow (Thursday, February 25, 2010).
Higglety Pigglety Pop! or There Must Be More to Life is one of our newest animated shorts based on the book by Maurice Sendak, and is premiering at the Montreal Children’s International Film Festival on Sunday, February 28.
The screening will be followed by a live puppet demonstration by the Oscar-nominated filmmakers, Chris Lavis and Maciek Szczerbowski (Madame Tutli-Putli). The audience will also be invited to meet the star, Jennie the puppet.
The film was produced by Spike Jonze, Vincent Landay and Marcy Page for the NFB and Warner Home Video and features the voices of Meryl Streep, Forest Whitaker and Spike Jonze. It tells the story of Jennie, a terrier who decides to leave her comfortable home behind in search of experience and the starring role in the World Mother Goose Theatre.
Following the film’s premiere, it will be featured as an exclusive short on the Where the Wild Things Are Warner Video Blu-ray, which is being released on March 2.
For details on the screening, click here. To purchase tickets online, click here.
Good luck!
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