short films
Theatrical shorts at the NFB: Cornet at Night
Once upon a time in movie theatres across North America, a short film (or 2) would precede the main feature. Sadly, this practice has gone the way of the dinosaur. The screening of shorts in Canadian theatres existed as late as the 1970s. We...
Canada Vignettes: Essential Canadiana, eh!
You’ve all seen them on television. Those wonderful, short, fascinating Canada Vignettes that cover the history of Canada, from the ill-fated establishment of the Republic of Manitoba to the exploits of train robber Bill Miner. This series of over 120 short films has played...
Be a member of the jury for the NFB Short Film Online Contest – Cannes 2011
The Online Short Film Contest is a short film competition organized by the NFB in association with the Cannes Film Festival and YouTube. It features 10 short films previously selected from over a thousand entries in the Short Film Corner, Cannes' venue for...
The marvels of technology: Short films shot on cell phones
On Monday, Mashable ran a piece called 7 Superb Short Films Shot With Cellphones. The films were astounding. I mean, I have an iPhone 4 so I'm aware of the quality of photographs and video it takes, but creating entire films? That look great?...
The Underground Movie, or Jules Verne knew what he was talking about
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When you were a kid, did you ever dream of going to the centre of the earth? I did. I loved to read adventure books that would take you on spectacular journeys to “hidden” lands buried in the bowels of the earth. Travelling to...
Andrea Dorfman on How To Be Alone
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k7X7sZzSXYs
Earlier this week, an interesting video called How To Be Alone popped up in my Facebook feed. I loved it instantly and recognized something familiar about the style of animation. It turns out it was done by Andrea Dorfman, the filmmaker behind Flawed, which...
6 films in competition at the Hiroshima International Animation Film Festival
This year, we've got 6 films in competition at the Hiroshima Animation Film Festival, which takes place from August 7 - 11. As an added bonus, Theodore Ushev (Lipsett Diaries, Drux Flux) will be blogging from the festival on the Lipsett Diaries blog.
The films...
How to create sound for a 1-minute animated short
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z9dWrWyJG4I
The sound composition for my Hothouse 6 film, Marvin Parson’s Inner Wild Wilderness, has always been a huge component, but in my mind it was never one specific aesthetic or approach. My inspirations were definitive, but flexible in its application which I felt was...
3 more films from the DOXA Connexions Youth Forum
Following up on yesterday's post, here are the 3 remaining films from the 2010 DOXA Youth Connexions Forum:
Love Life
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HACWxbX817c&feature=related
Josephine Anderson is 24 years old, holds a B.A. in English Literature from UBC and is a graduate of the Capilano University ...
3 films from the 2010 DOXA Connexions Youth Forum
A few weeks back, we wrote about the DOXA Connexions Youth Forum with a promise to follow up when the participants' films were completed. Well! The films are now all online.
Without further ado, here are the first 3 films along with a brief bio...
Montrealers! Join us on June 30 for a free session on Financing Your Short Film!
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Orange, by Sylvie Trouvé, was one of last year's Hothouse shorts.
On June 30, up here at the NFB in Montreal, we’ll be hosting the last knowledge-sharing event of Hothouse 6. It’s a panel we’re calling “Financing Your Short Film!”, because yes, it...
26 films on science for children
This post originally appeared on our sister site, ONF.ca, and was translated into English.
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Marc Bertrand, a producer with the NFB’s French Program, looks back on the time he spent working on Science Please! with great fondness. It was his first job at the NFB,...
