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Here’s you’ll find all the info you need about the NFB’s extensive and acclaimed interactive content, including interviews with media-makers, behind-the-scenes footage, launches, calls for projects, and reports on the progress and results of our digital stories. Have your say—interact!

Meet the fourth crop of Jeunes Pousses at the NFB!

Meet the fourth crop of Jeunes Pousses at the NFB!

The National Film Board of Canada is proud to announce the fourth edition of Jeunes Pousses. We’re once again welcoming a group of interns into our Montréal Interactive Studio—to let them hack us!

TRACES at Expo 2020 Dubai: Grasping the Consequences of Climate Change in Full Flight

TRACES at Expo 2020 Dubai: Grasping the Consequences of Climate Change in Full Flight

The installation TRACES, on display as part of the Canada Pavilion at Expo 2020 Dubai, invites audiences to reflect on the imminent disappearance of some of the landscapes and species making up part of our environment.

What Is the Role of Public Art?

What Is the Role of Public Art?

On the surface, the story of Charity seems specific to the suburban development in Markham, Ontario. However, the web documentary resonates with larger issues about identity, belonging, and self-representation in suburban environments throughout Canada.

Call for Ideas | The Roots of Hip-Hop in Québec: The Video Game

Call for Ideas | The Roots of Hip-Hop in Québec: The Video Game

Parties, DJs, MCs, urban dance styles, rap battles, radio and television programs: Montreal has moved to the rhythm of hip-hop for over forty years. But how did this movement really begin in Quebec? Do we know its true roots?

Why the NFB interactive studio decided to halt production of Marrow

Why the NFB interactive studio decided to halt production of Marrow

Can artificial intelligence develop mental illness? Shirin Anlen, along with the NFB and Atlas V, explored this question for nearly two years, until the collaboration came to an end before...

Motto: A behind-the-scenes look at the making of Vincent Morisset’s latest adventure

Motto: A behind-the-scenes look at the making of Vincent Morisset’s latest adventure

Motto is an unidentified digital object that can’t be reduced to a genre or a school. A NFB production, Motto is the work of Vincent Morisset’s digital creation studio, AATOAA, in collaboration with Montreal novelist Sean Michaels. Here’s a look back at the three years of work that brought Motto to our pockets.

Montreal, 2050: When Bubbles Have Replaced Masks

Montreal, 2050: When Bubbles Have Replaced Masks

Set in 2050, Bubble imagines a world in which nothing has been done to slow down global warming.

Call for ideas by female-identifying creators – The Montreal/Miami New Narratives Lab

Call for ideas by female-identifying creators – The Montreal/Miami New Narratives Lab

Participate in a 3-day guided design workshop in Miami. Submission deadline: October 6, 2020.

The Curve: Social-distancing stories that bring us closer together

The Curve: Social-distancing stories that bring us closer together

As the country and the world face the historic challenges of the COVID-19 pandemic, production is now under way at the NFB on The Curve, a collection of approximately 30 projects by more than 40 Canadian creators.

Motto: Making Magic and Sharing Secrets

Motto: Making Magic and Sharing Secrets

Every user who experiences Motto—reading the story, contributing their clips—nourishes its archive of material: the library of wiggling toes and ravishing trash, "things that are soft" and "things that are square."

Two Unique Ways to Discover Parliament

Two Unique Ways to Discover Parliament

You can now “visit” the Parliament of Canada both virtually and online, thanks to a new co-production between the Library of Parliament and the NFB.

First Photo Here: Share Your Immigrant Experience

First Photo Here: Share Your Immigrant Experience

Our project First Photo Here is a curated collection of the first photos new arrivals to Canada shared with friends and family back home.