film festivals
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...
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,...
imagineNATIVE and the NFB seek proposals for digital media projects
We've joined forces with the good people at the imagineNATIVE Film + Media Arts Festival to gather proposals from Canadian Aboriginal artists for outspoken, cutting-edge and socially relevant digital media works.
The kinds of works being considered range from interactive documentary to mobile media to...
39th edition of Festival du nouveau cinéma opens in Montreal Oct. 13
The Festival du nouveau cinéma (FNC) opens in Montreal next Wednesday, October 13. Dedicated to disseminating and developing new trends in the field of cinema and new media, the FNC showcases original and largely unseen works, placing emphasis on cinema d’auteur and...
6 NFB animations to screen at the Ottawa International Animation Festival
This one's just for you, animation people. Set the dates of October 20-24 aside, the Ottawa International Animation Festival (OIAF), is where you'll want to be in a month's time.
Now in its 34th year, the OIAF is the largest animation festival of its kind...
Mi’gmaq artist Phyllis Grant talks about Waseteg, premiering tomorrow at the Atlantic Film Festival
I told you recently about 4 NFB productions that were selected at the Atlantic Film Festival. Among them was Waseteg, Phyllis Grant’s animated short film about a Mig’maq girl and her search for happiness.
In advance of the AFF screening (Waseteg premieres tomorrow, Wednesday Sept....
5 NFB films presented at the Calgary International Film Festival
The Calgary International Film Festival (CIFF) is just around the corner. Named “One of the top 25 film festivals in the world worth its entry fee” by MovieMaker Magazine (!), this year's edition of the CIFF runs from September 24 to October 3, 2010.
One...
4 NFB films selected at the Atlantic Film Festival
Four of our productions have been selected at the Atlantic Film Festival (AFF). Held every September in Halifax, Nova Scotia, AFF is Canada's 4th major film festival. Presenting itself as "large enough to attract the world’s most notable actors, directors and producers, but intimate enough...
Three NFB films selected at TIFF
The summer is drawing to a close and that means the Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF) is just around the corner. One of the world's most happening film festivals (film critic Roger Ebert once said that if Cannes remains the greatest, Toronto is more useful and...
