Lights, Camera, Parity: NFB Women Shine at Hot Docs
It’s a banner year for NFB women directors. Only weeks after the NFB made its historic commitment to gender parity in production, Canada’s public producer is heading to Hot Docs...
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National Canadian Film Day: Our Staff Picks
Check out our staff picks for National Canadian Film Day
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...
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...
Paper Boy | I Should Have Taken a Paper Route
I was a proper boy. I was polite. I was calm. I was a model pint-sized citizen. I did not realize one could be a scoundrel until late in my...
8 Female Directors Who Are Crushing It At the NFB
With the current conversations surrounding the abysmal under-representation of female directors in Hollywood we’ve decided to highlight the fantastic history and confidence the NFB has, and continues to have, with female directors.
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. Yet here they are:...
NFB English Production: Five to Watch in 2016
2016 kicked off on a high note here at the NFB with news that Canada’s public producer has nabbed 19 Canadian Screen Award nominations – getting the nod in no...
Cliff Hangers | The First 10,000 Feet Are Always the Hardest
If and when I decide to climb a mountain, it will be to laugh in the face of nature and the behemoths it has placed in my path. But that...
Celebrate the Year of the Pig With 20 Gorgeous Images from 1973 China
Happy New Year! A lucky and prosperous year to all. A bit of context before you feast your eyes. In the summer of 1973, a small NFB crew was granted permission...
A Tribute to Comedic Genius Buster Keaton
2016 marked 50 years since the world lost the great Buster Keaton. I view him as one of the greatest filmmakers of all time and a comedic genius. I wanted...
Refuge: The First 19 Days
Jennifer and her brothers have seen more in their short lives than most adults will encounter in a lifetime — armed conflict, forced migration, refugee camps. But the sight of...