Tom Perlmutter
Toronto: Final Stop on the NFB Tour
NFB head Tom Perlmutter is wrapping up a cross-country tour with one more stop in Toronto.
Tom is holding town hall style meetings with Canadians to find out what matters to them in their particular place and also to share info on new directions...
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...
Inuit audiovisual legacy project Unikkausivut – Sharing our Stories kicks off in Ottawa
On Wednesday November 2, the NFB and its many partners (including the Inuit Relations Secretariat of Indian and Northern Affairs Canada and the Government of Nunavut’s Depatment of Education) launched the first phase of Unikkausivut – Sharing our Stories, an ambitious project aiming to...
The NFB Tour resumes in October
In late 2010, we launched the NFB Tour, a series of town-hall style meetings across the country during which Tom Perlmutter, head of the NFB, met with a variety of people to discuss the new directions we're heading in, take questions and talk about...
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...
NFB Tour – Winnipeg
To prevent us from having to change the name of this blog to “Carolyne’s Films and Foods”, I’m going to go ahead and not tell you about what I had for lunch in Winnipeg. Ha! I will say it involved minestrone, but that’s about...
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: Edmonton
I’m not usually a huge fan of talking/writing about the weather, but I believe it bears mentioning it was -29 degrees Edmonton yesterday. Good morning! I had come prepared, though, fishing up my parka and shearling-lined boots from the back of the closet, items...
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,...
NFB Tour: Timmins, Ontario
* This post was translated from French.
Landing in Timmins wasn’t a sure thing given the bad weather, but we finally arrived—hale, hearty and in good spirits. It turns out to be misty and warm for an October day in Timmins and I spend part...
