A coffee shop chat with filmmaker Paul Cowan
Paul Cowan is a Canadian filmmaker who spent many years working at the NFB. He retired from the Film Board in 2009, after directing Paris 1919, a film adaptation of...
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
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...
3 NFB films presented at imagineNATIVE
oehttp://www.nfb.ca/film/vistas_button_blanket/ We are pleased to announce that 3 of our productions have been selected for presentation at the 11th imagineNATIVE Film + Media Arts Festival. Based in Toronto, imagineNATIVE is...
Grain Elevator fervour
oehttp://www.nfb.ca/film/grain_elevator/ Part of my job involves putting films online. There’s a calendar (prepared by our Collection analysts) that I consult every week. It tells me what films are supposed to...
Behind the scenes: Hothouse 6
oehttp://www.onf.ca/film/hothouse_6_behind_the_scenes/ A while back I published a series of interviews with this year’s 6 Hothouse participants. As much as I believe in the power of words to evoke, I was...
Introducing Test Tube, NFB’s new interactive project featuring David Suzuki
The NFB recently launched Test Tube, a thought-provoking interactive project featuring David Suzuki. To better understand the project, its goals and its achievements we interviewed Loc Dao, Creative Technologist on...
17 NFB nominations for the 25th Annual Gemini Awards
The Academy of Canadian Cinema & Television recently announced its nominations for the 25th Annual Gemini Awards and the NFB obtained a whopping 17 nominations. Yippee! Nine distinct productions made...
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...
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 (!),...
What goes into clearing rights for streaming films on NFB.ca
Although I have been part of the NFB web team since last Christmas, I recently realized I was still pretty hazy about the whole notion of internet rights. Why are...
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...
Enter the Celebrate Parks video contest
What’s your favourite Canadian national park? I got several. This is a photo I took in one of them last summer – Georgian Bay Islands National Park, on Ontario’s Lake...