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The National Film Board of Canada pays tribute to Pierre Juneau
The National Film Board of Canada wishes to acknowledge the significant and lasting contribution made by Pierre Juneau to the NFB and to Canada's radio broadcasting and telecommunications industries. Mr. Juneau died on February 21, 2012, at the age of 89.
During his career at...
War & Peace
Text written by Sam Allison, a retired history teacher who has taught in secondary schools and at McGill University. He is currently Vice Chairman of the Jeannie Johnston Educational Foundation.
The NFB’s War and Peace Playlist can be shaped by teachers to suit their...
DOXA Connexions: The Beauty of Creating!
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...
Tom Perlmutter on accessibility, new forms of storytelling and risk-taking
Earlier this month, NFB President Tom Perlmutter gave an interview to IT in Canada's Dave Chapelle. In a piece fittingly titled, NFB embraces technology to tell Canadian stories, Perlmutter discusses concrete actions he has taken to make innovation, experimentation and risk-taking the norm at...
Rare NFB war films to screen at the Canadian Center for Architecture
As many of you know, the National Film Board played a central role during World War II. Created in 1939, a few months before the hostilities began, the NFB fell headlong into the production and distribution of wartime films. Though its original mandate...
The NFB and Mozilla to undertake joint exploration of HTML5
The NFB is internationally recognized for its technical innovations in animation, as well as for pushing the boundaries in its experimentation with new technologies and new media. In the past year alone, for example, the NFB has produced a dozen interactive projects, launched iPhone...
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...
Filmmaker Hubert Davis talks about Robin Phillips and the making of Move Your Mind
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Hubert Davis is an Oscar-nominated filmmaker based in Toronto. He made his directorial debut with Hardwood, a tribute to his father, former Harlem Globetrotter Mel Davis. He went on to direct Invisible City, a coming-of-age story shot in Regent Park (Toronto's inner-city housing project),...
NFB Tour – Regina
We were driven from Saskatoon to Regina by a very nice man called Amin (“You know, like when you’re praying,” he said, gently covering his face with both palms. I guess it wasn’t technically a blizzard, but it felt like we were travelling inside...
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: Little Tour on the Prairies
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Last month the head of the NFB, Tom Perlmutter, travelled to Ontario to meet with Ontarians and talk about film, stories, Canadian identities and the role of the National Film Board in the digital age. The initiative was part of the NFB Tour, a...
The NFB Tour continues in the Prairies on November 22
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The above film, Dancers of the Grass, a short film by Saskatoon filmmaker Melanie Jackson.
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Tom Perlmutter, head of the NFB, will be kicking off the West leg of the NFB Tour in Edmonton on November 22, followed by stops in Saskatoon on November 23,...
