Stories From Our Land: Iqaluit Log (Part 1)
The following is a guest post by Carrie Haber. In November, I flew from Montreal to Iqaluit as an instructor for the NFB/Nunavut Film Development Corporation’s Stories From Our Land...
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How to Build an Igloo(fest)
oehttp://www.nfb.ca/film/How_to_Build_an_Igloo In Canada, we get winter. This means two things. It means a) we get it in the sense that it happens here. It also means b) we get it...
One-woman film crew Dianne Whelan talks about shooting on Everest and in the Canadian Arctic
I told you earlier this week I’d try to get Dianne Whelan on the phone to pick her brains about making This Land, her great Arctic documentary, and talk about...
TIFF announces Canada’s Top Ten of 2010
Because it’s the end of the year and because we love lists at the NFB, I wanted to tell to you about this year’s Top 10 Canadian Films. Put together...
Discovering art through film
The following is a guest post from our former editor, Nancy Barr. oehttp://www.nfb.ca/film/i_can_make_art_like_maud_lewis Hi! I’m filling in for Carolyne Weldon this week. I worked at the NFB for 10 years...
Filmmaker Hubert Davis talks about Robin Phillips and the making of Move Your Mind
oehttp://www.nfb.ca/film/move_your_mind/ Hubert Davis is an Oscar-nominated filmmaker based in Toronto. He made his directorial debut with Hardwood, a tribute to his father, former Harlem Globetrotter Mel Davis. He went on...
Director Pablo Alvarez-Mesa on Jelena’s Song, screening tomorrow at Montreal’s International Documentary Festival
oehttp://www.nfb.ca/film/jelenas_song_trailer/ Pablo Alvarez-Mesa is an award-winning Colombian-Canadian documentary filmmaker who shares his time between Montreal and British Columbia. His 4th film, Jelena’s Song, explores the life of his friend Jelena...
A coffee shop chat with filmmaker Paul Cowan
Paul Cowan is a Canadian filmmaker who spent many years working at the NFB. He retired from the Film Board in 2009, after directing Paris 1919, a film adaptation of...
3 NFB films presented at imagineNATIVE
oehttp://www.nfb.ca/film/vistas_button_blanket/ We are pleased to announce that 3 of our productions have been selected for presentation at the 11th imagineNATIVE Film + Media Arts Festival. Based in Toronto, imagineNATIVE is...
Racing Thoughts in theatres for Mental Illness Awareness Week
oehttp://www.nfb.ca/film/racing_thoughts_trailer/ Louiselle Noël’s new film, Racing Thoughts is being screened in cities across Canada this week in conjunction with Mental Illness Awareness Week (October 3-9, 2010). In the film, Louiselle...
17 NFB nominations for the 25th Annual Gemini Awards
The Academy of Canadian Cinema & Television recently announced its nominations for the 25th Annual Gemini Awards and the NFB obtained a whopping 17 nominations. Yippee! Nine distinct productions made...
Tagged: How privacy became a commodity
oehttp://www.nfb.ca/film/tagged_privacy_as_commodity/ This year, we released a film called Tagged, a short documentary about a hipster who implanted himself with an RFID chip. The film appealed to me on a few...