Embedding NFB video on your WordPress Blog
I’ve come across a lot of bloggers who are writing about our new online Screening Room but are unable to embed NFB films on their sites. Instead of using a...
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Why Retweets are more powerful than Tweets
We are learning very quickly that the true power in our Twitter community is not in our tweets. It’s in the ReTweets. What’s a ReTweet? If you tweet something interesting...
Got a favourite NFB film? We’d love to put it online…
To prepare for our launch last January, our in-house film experts (aka collection analysts) Albert Ohayon and Marc St-Pierre selected a large number of NFB films to be included in...
Paris 1919 heads to Hot Docs
Director Paul Cowan talks about the making of Paris 1919 as the films heads to Hot Docs 2009.
Guy Maddin talks about Night Mayor
Guy Maddin sits down with the NFB for a one-on-one interview.
RiP! A Remix Manifesto opens theatrically in Canada
Hot off the heels of a killer festival run, Brett Gaylor’s film RiP! A Remix Manifesto, about copyright and content creation in the digital age, will open theatrically in select...
The Strangest Dream goes on tour
Starting on March 4, Eric Bednarski’s documentary The Strangest Dream begins its national tour, showing in select theatres across Canada until April 10. The film is about Nobel Peace Prize-winning...
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Heaven on Earth: DVD release and interview with director
Heaven on Earth has been hugely popular on this site since it premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival last September. Centring around Chand, a young Indian bride who emigrates...
NFB Chairperson Tom Perlmutter named Person of the Week by La Presse
The popular French Montreal daily newspaper La Presse and Radio-Canada named NFB Chairperson and Government Film Commissioner Tom Perlmutter their person of the week. Each week, La Presse features a...
RiP: A Remix Manifesto screens at Rendez-vous du cinéma québécois
Festival favourite RiP: A Remix Manifesto will screen at this year’s Rendez-vous du cinéma québécois as part of a workshop/panel discussion. RiP explores the issues of intellectual property in the...
The NFB garners 6 nominations for the 2009 Genie Awards
This year, five NFB productions are up for a total of six awards at the 2009 Genies. Theodore Ushev’s Drux Flux and Claude Cloutier’s Sleeping Betty are both up for...
Roadsworth Airs on Télé-Québec on Monday February 9
Catch Alan Kohl’s documentary, Roadsworth: Crossing the Line tonight on Télé-Québec at 9:00 pm. Roadsworth paints a portrait of artist Peter Gibson, who used the city streets of Montreal as...