Photo Friday | Wolves-O-Rama
Fairy tales wolves get a bad rap. They’re always up to no good, terrorizing helpless pigs or chowing down grandmothers. But how savage are wolves in reality? According to filmmaker Bill Mason,...
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
Puppet School of the Streets: Watch Grant Munro’s One Little Indian on NFB.ca
Learn some basic traffic safety rules with Grant Munro's quirky puppet animation, One Little Indian (1954.)
Photo Friday | Young, Wild and Free: Hanging Out With Fogo’s Children
Fogo is an island that lies off the northeast coast of Newfoundland, in the Atlantic Ocean. Though only about 25 km long and 14 km wide, the island has always...
Cure for Love: When Sex and Scriptures Clash
Leading up to May 17th, which marks International Day Against Homophobia and Transphobia, we are highlighting works that give voice to the LGBTQ experience on NFB.ca. Learn more about one of our...
Moms on Film: Celebrate Mother’s Day the NFB Way
Happy Mother’s Day! This weekend, celebrate moms everywhere with this great photo selection of iconic mothers found in NFB films. (Films available for free viewing on NFB.ca are linked in green below each image.)...
Photo Friday | Filming with Montreal’s Urban Poor in the 1960s
The NFB was always cutting-edge. Between 1967 and 1980, its activist documentary program Challenge for Change produced almost 250 films and videos to confront a wide spectrum of issues, from poverty to sexism...
National Canadian Film Day: Our Staff Picks
Check out our staff picks for National Canadian Film Day
Check Out Seances, Guy Maddin’s Latest Interactive Cinema Experiment
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Photo Friday | Meet the Indigenous Peoples of B.C.’s Skeena River in 10 Gorgeous Pics
After the Fraser, the Skeena is British Columbia’s second longest river. For the area’s first inhabitants, the Tsimshian and Gitxsan, whose names respectively mean “inside the Skeena River” and “people of...
Free Animation! | Celebrate World Health Day With 5 Tonic Shorts
Despite the fact it is (or should be) everyone’s highest, most prized possession, health remains a bit of a mystery. What is health, exactly? Harmony between all of the body’s parts?...
Syrinx | Ryan Larkin’s Very First Film Is Finally Online
Watch Oscar-nominated Ryan Larkin's ravishing first film Syrinx, a very short charcoal animation recently added to NFB.ca
Hobos, Hermits and Drifters | Watch 3 Short Films Starring Wise Loners of the Canadian Bush
Although almost everyone has dreamed of leaving it all behind and vanishing into the bush, it takes a special kind of character with a special set of skills to do it...