Get your freak on, Fantasia is here
Freaks and geeks take note, the event Quentin Tarantino once called “the most important and prestigious genre film festival on this continent” is kicking off tomorrow. The Fantasia International Film...
Author : Carolyne Weldon
Carolyne Weldon is a writer and photographer living in Montreal. Her interests include storytelling, music, martial arts, language, and spirituality. Contact her at c.weldon@nfb.ca
Welcome to God’s Lake Narrows
This is a guest post by Gisèle Gordon, a multimedia artist, writer and programmer (Hot Docs, imagineNATIVE) based in Toronto. In 1996 she co-founded the film production company Urban Nation...
Celebrate Canada Day with the NFB
Tomorrow is Canada Day (yay!) and the NFB has a few ideas to celebrate this wonderful place we call home. The first is a Canada Day film selection we put...
The Besnard Lakes to release EP based on Welcome to Pine Point score
Montreal husband-and-wife indie-rock duo The Besnard Lakes announced they will soon release a 12-inch vinyl titled You Lived in the City based on their score for the interactive projet/web doc/”liquid...
NFB wins Award for Excellence in Interactive Programming
Most people know us for our films, but the NFB is increasingly gaining attention for its interactive productions. At the Banff World Media Festival earlier this month, the NFB received...
Director Narcisse Blood introduces new Pete Standing Alone documentary
Narcisse Blood is a Blood Indian teacher and filmmaker working and living in Southern Alberta. He recently directed Round Up, a documentary about Pete Standing Alone, a remarkable man who...
Welcome to Pine Point wins 2 Webby Awards
On Monday, The Goggles (Mike Simons and Paul Shoebridge) were named double Webby Award winners for Welcome to Pine Point, their first-ever interactive web documentary. The Vancouver creative duo received...
2 new ways to explore our online film collection
One thing I learned from working (and pretty much living) online is that having tons of great content is next to useless if people can’t easily find what they want...
NFB Classics: Circle of the Sun
I’m in the middle of transcribing notes from an interview I did last week with Narcisse Blood. Narcisse is a filmmaker and educator living in Southwestern Alberta. He recently directed...
Mighty Jerome to air on CBC Television this Saturday June 18
After screening at Hot Docs and other festivals this spring, Mighty Jerome, a doc about the little-known story of one of Canada’s greatest sprinters, airs on CBC television this Saturday...
CFC Features: finance, market and produce your feature film
There are different ways to fund a feature film in this day and age and one you should consider if you are Canadian and have the first draft of a...
Power to the Pixel’s Pixel Market now open for applications
If you’re an international producer with a strong track record and have a cross-media project at an advanced stage of development, The Pixel Market is your chance to win £6,000...