“The Misery of Others”: The Ethics of Filming People on the Edge
* This is a guest post by Oisin Curran, web writer for the web doc Here At Home. More on this topic on the Here At Home blog. In a...
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Rent or Download Pink Ribbons Inc.
Our feature documentary about the business of breast cancer fundraising is now available for download and rental. After opening at TIFF, to enthusiastic reviews, and screening across the nation, Léa...
Trippy File: The India Trip
Welcome to Pondicherry, a town rife with yoga tourists and bright-eyed Westerners who've come to settle in neighbouring Auroville, an utopian community guided by the Mother, a 94 year-old woman from France.
Download and Own Tulku, Gesar Mukpo’s Doc on Reincarnation in the New World
Download and own Tulku, Gesar Mukpo's feature doc about young people being recognized as the reincarnation of great Tibetan Buddhist masters.
REW-FFWD: Remembering Denis Villeneuve’s 1994 Jamaican Psychodrama
Watch REW-FFWD (1994), Oscar-nominated filmmaker Denis Villeneuve's "psychodrama" about a photographer stranded in Trench Town (Jamaica).
Max Ward: The NFB Profiles a Canadian Aviation Legend
Do you remember Wardair? It was a very prominent Canadian airline in the 1970s and 1980s. We have recently added a documentary about the airline’s founder, Max Ward, to NFB.ca,...
Notman’s World: Depicting the Dawn of Canadian Photography
Discover Notman's World, a short doc illustrating William Notman's essential contributions to the birth of photography in Canada.
Colin Low: Special screenings at Montreal’s Cinémathèque québécoise
Starting tomorrow and running until Saturday, April 14, the Cinémathèque québécoise and Hors Champs will present an hommage to veteran NFB filmmaker Colin Low. Each night boasts a different program,...
Pacificanada: British Columbia Seen through the NFB Lens
A few months back I wrote a piece on the West television series (you can read it here), the NFB’s second documentary series on the various regions of Canada. West...
The Devil’s Toy: Skateboarding in Montreal in 1966
The NFB, as we all know, is a total paradox. On the one hand, it is a 73 year-old public institution. On the other, it is so insanely cool and...
Feature film on Canada’s most famous unknown author premieres at FIFA
The Mystery of Mazo de la Roche, our new feature film about enigmatic Canadian writer Mazo de la Roche (author of the Jalna novels), has its world premiere at FIFA...
Payback, the latest doc from Jennifer Baichwal, opens Friday, March 16
The above photo was taken from the film Payback, which opens in Canadian theatres on Friday, March 16. *** Did you know there’s a man in Albania who hasn’t left...