Quilt fever
I’ve said it before, but one of my favourite things about my job is seeing what people do with our films once we put them online. Last week, the web...
Films
Here you’ll find musings, histories, critiques, and behind-the-scenes info on some of the more than 2,000 films (animations, documentaries, fiction) and interactive projects we’re streaming on NFB.ca.
Friday staff pick: Cry of the Wild
oehttp://www.nfb.ca/film/cry_of_the_wild/ I saw Cry of the Wild as a teenager in the early 1970s at a movie theatre in Montreal. The film was talked about everywhere. There were TV ,...
Turning 32: An interview with director Robbie Hart
The following is a guest post by Tanya Koivusalo. What are the universal characteristics we humans share? Robbie Hart and Luc Côté explore this intriguing question in their new feature-length...
Friday Staff Pick: My Grandmother Ironed the King’s Shirts
oehttp://www.nfb.ca/film/my_grandmother_ironed_the_king_shirts Oscar season is upon us, and while we don’t have any films in the running this year, we do have a few statues under our belt. In fact, the...
The NFB at Sundance
If I could attend only one film festival in my life, it would have to be Sundance in the United States. The annual event takes place in the mountain resort...
Friday Film Staff Pick: Sleeping Betty
oehttp://www.nfb.ca/film/sleeping_betty This is a guest post from Kate Ruscito, a beloved member of the web team. I don’t know about you, but on Friday, after a long workweek, I’m exhausted....
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...
Cordell Barker on animating the documentary Cat Crazed
Cordell Barker (Runaway, The Cat Came Back) recently did some animation for a new documentary by Bountiful Films entitled Cat Crazed. After posting the trailer for the film on our...
2010 Staff Picks: An unconventional Top 10
We’ve been posting a lot of lists lately, from ASIFA’s best in animation to TIFF’s Canada’s Top Ten. Feeling all in the spirit, we decided to share our own list....
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...
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...