Fixing the Gaze: New Indigenous Work at the NFB
Take a first look at the many Indigenous-directed projects currently in development, production or release in the NFB's English Program.
Author : Philip Lewis
The Auchter Effect: Haida Myth Gets Animated
Emerging director Christopher Auchter plunges us into a mythic watery underworld in The Mountain of SGaana, an animated short that's just completed postproduction in the BC & Yukon Studio.
Q&A: Paloma Dawkins at Play in the VR Zone
An autodidact who’s as adept in cinema as she is in comix or game design, Dawkins is part of a young posse that’s joyously shaking things up at the NFB Animation Studio.
Experimental Instagram Doc Profiles Indigenous Activism
The face of contemporary Indigenous community activism, fuelled by new resolve and focus, is being profiled in an innovative experiment in social media storytelling from the NFB North West Studio.
A Better Man: Crowdfunding Compassion
One summer night over twenty years ago Attiya Khan found herself running for her life. She was fleeing her first boyfriend Steve, the young man who’d been abusing her for...
Impressions of China: NFB Restores McWilliams’ First Doc
It was 1972, the month of May, and an adventurous group of high school students and teachers from Hamilton, Ontario, boarded an Asia-bound plane and quietly made history. At a time when western perceptions of Maoist China were shaped by Cold War politics, they became the first to visit the country since the 1949 communist revolution.
NFB Shines at Canada’s Fall Festivals
Autumn is film festival season in Canada and the NFB English Program is embarking on the busy fall circuit with over a dozen new releases.
Ash & Oil: Julia Ivanova’s Short on Post-fire Fort McMurray
Ash & Oil: Fort McMurray After the Fire is the NFB’s first collaboration with the Guardian’s short documentary platform, launched in 2014 under the direction of Charlie Philips, former Deputy Director at the Sheffield Doc/Fest.
Settling Scores: Q&A with Composer Jeff Johnston
Jeff Johnston comes to film music as one of Canada’s most accomplished jazz pianists. In a career that spans over 25 years, he’s played with some of the biggest names in jazz – Kenny Wheeler, Sheila Jordan, Archie Shepp, Slide Hampton and a host of other luminaries.
Beauty: The Young Gender Pioneers
Bex is only eight — a kid, not an activist. But just being Bex is revolutionary. He’s one of a growing number of gender non-conforming kids who are quietly upending...
Canada at 150: Classic Photo Reportage Goes Interactive
The classic art of photo reportage gets a new lease on life in Canada at 150 – an interactive production that’s among a number of anniversary projects currently in the...
Birth of a Family Confronts Legacy of the Sixties Scoop
It’s September 16, 2015, a busy Wednesday afternoon at the Calgary International Airport. A small NFB crew is about to document an extraordinary encounter — a crucial early scene in...