Past NFB Heads Discuss the Purpose of the NFB
A really great and candid short film that interviews past Government Film Commissioners about what the NFB means to them. What is a Government Film Commissioner? From Wikipedia: As stipulated...
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NFB.ca listed in Top 50 Web Designs
The designers at Web50.ca have included NFB.ca in their Top 50 Canadian web designs. We’ve always loved site design, so it’s nice to be recognized by the community like this....
NFB nominated for 2 Canadian New Media Awards
A bunch of NFB and NFB co-produced sites were nominated for Canadian New Media Awards last week. NFB.ca, the NFB Online Screening Room – Best Online Video Portal Waterlife (waterlife.nfb.ca)...
What’s inside the new NFB iPhone App
So here’s what the NFB iPhone app can do: *WATCH hundreds of NFB movies on your iPhone. Most of the films available on NFB.ca are encoded for the iPhone. Soon...
Here’s what we’ve got cooking at the Calgary International Film Festival
Check out all the trailers for the films we’ve got playing at the 2009 Calgary International Film Festival. Documentary Features CBQM (Dennis Allen) 66:36 min oehttp://www.nfb.ca/film/cbqm_radio_trailer/ INVISIBLE CITY (Hubert Davis)...
20 Doc Filmmakers you should follow on Twitter
@AboutDocsGuide – About.com’s documentary page @DocumentaryBlog – Doc blog by 2 doc lovers. @ErrolMorris – Oscar-winning doc-filmmaker, Errol Morris @BanffTVFest – Banff televison fest. Handy for producers. @DOCorg – Canadian...
Watch: Errol Morris talk about interviewing Robert McNamara
Former US Defense Secretary, Robert McNamara, died this morning at the age of 93. In these clips, Errol Morris talks about what it was like to interview McNamara for his...
How to watch our films on Boxee
We are on Boxee The National Film Board of Canada now has a Boxee channel. That’s over 1000 NFB animated and documentary films, clips and trailers you can watch through...
5 Great Blogs by Filmmakers
Objectified by Gary Hustwit Gary Hustwit (Helvetica) is great at creating interesting conversation during the lull of preproduction and production and then using the blog to generate awareness of...
Vote for the next NFB T-shirt design
Have you seen our Retro NFB T-shirts and Street Musique t-shirts? We’re going to make more… Our designers came up with 8 T-shirt designs but we’re only going to print...
6 Blogging Tips for Filmmakers
Blogging is an excellent tool for filmmakers, both to generate interest in the early stages of production and to publicize the film upon its release. Here are a few tips...
Which user metrics do the major video sites use?
We want to include more user-metrics on the front page of NFB.ca. User metrics suggest content based on trends in user activity. Example: Most viewed film, Most emailed story, etc....