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Hercules Enters the Ring: New NFB Animation

Hercules Enters the Ring: New NFB Animation

An anime-inflected retelling of the Hercules story and brand new work from the Dutch-Canadian master Paul Driessen are among projects currently in the works at the Montreal-based Animation Studio. Noir...

Digital Studio Reframes the Art of Portraiture

Digital Studio Reframes the Art of Portraiture

The notion of portrait gallery is cast in a new light in Bread and Kabul Portraits — a pair of interactive projects nearing completion at the NFB’s Vancouver-based Digital Studio....

Ninth Floor: A Conversation with Selwyn Jacob

Ninth Floor: A Conversation with Selwyn Jacob

It was the late 60s and Montreal was still basking in the glow of Expo 67, its great moment in the international spotlight — and then came the biggest student...

Girl Power Goes Global

Girl Power Goes Global

It’s October 11, 2012, and 160 Kenyan girls are taking concrete action to mark the first UN-designated International Day of the Girl Child. Having assembled in the town of Meru,...

Pacific Animation: Three to Watch

Pacific Animation: Three to Watch

Three. Count ‘em. It’s barely a year since Shirley Vercruysse assumed duties as executive producer of the Pacific & Yukon Studio, and she’s already stickhandling an ambitious troika of animated...

Unarmed Verses: Singing their Own Song

Unarmed Verses: Singing their Own Song

13 year-old Francine Valentine and the other kids from Villaways Park rarely get to come downtown, let alone record their own songs in a professional studio. Updated February 28, 2016....

The Apology Revisits Issue of WWII Sexual Slavery

The Apology Revisits Issue of WWII Sexual Slavery

Historians generally refer to them as “the comfort women,” but the term hardly begins to describe the horror they endured. Tiffany Hsiung has come to think of them as “the...

Fort Mac Dreamin’

Fort Mac Dreamin’

The recent dramatic drop in world oil prices may be playing havoc with economic forecasts, but it has upped the creative stakes in Limit is the Sky, a feature doc...

Ninth Floor Strikes Archival Gold

Ninth Floor Strikes Archival Gold

The sound was rough, the image blurred — but the content was gold. Editor Carmen Pollard had already completed a rough cut of Ninth Floor, Mina Shum’s feature doc about...

Debris: Disaster Movie as Art

Debris: Disaster Movie as Art

Beachcombing is both a job and a passion for Pete Clarkson. As a park worker on the wild and beautiful outer coast of Vancouver Island, he’s been picking up marine debris...

My Heart Attack: The Beat Goes On

My Heart Attack: The Beat Goes On

It was a case of the World Wide Web unearthing treasure on the doorstep. It was late, after midnight, and Sheldon Cohen was online conducting an increasingly urgent search. Everything...

Elephant 1967: Passage from India

Elephant 1967: Passage from India

It was a job that called for green screen. Lots of green screen. Colin MacKenzie and Aparna Kapur have just completed an unusual shoot in southern India, kicking off production...