Ninth Floor: A Conversation with Selwyn Jacob
It was the late 60s and Montreal was still basking in the glow of Expo 67, its great moment in the international spotlight — and then came the biggest student...
Production
With 6 production studios across the country, the NFB’s English Program has about 100 projects underway at any given time in our core genres – documentary, animation and interactive. Check out this space for information about projects currently underway and news from our production teams.
Girl Power Goes Global
It’s October 11, 2012, and 160 Kenyan girls are taking concrete action to mark the first UN-designated International Day of the Girl Child. Having assembled in the town of Meru,...
Pacific Animation: Three to Watch
Three. Count ‘em. It’s barely a year since Shirley Vercruysse assumed duties as executive producer of the Pacific & Yukon Studio, and she’s already stickhandling an ambitious troika of animated...
Unarmed Verses: Singing their Own Song
13 year-old Francine Valentine and the other kids from Villaways Park rarely get to come downtown, let alone record their own songs in a professional studio. Updated February 28, 2016....
Producing Producers
Producing the Animation Studio producers is only a bit different from producing films - and perhaps even a bit more fun and interesting!
The Apology Revisits Issue of WWII Sexual Slavery
Historians generally refer to them as “the comfort women,” but the term hardly begins to describe the horror they endured. Tiffany Hsiung has come to think of them as “the...
Fort Mac Dreamin’
The recent dramatic drop in world oil prices may be playing havoc with economic forecasts, but it has upped the creative stakes in Limit is the Sky, a feature doc...
Ninth Floor Strikes Archival Gold
The sound was rough, the image blurred — but the content was gold. Editor Carmen Pollard had already completed a rough cut of Ninth Floor, Mina Shum’s feature doc about...
Debris: Disaster Movie as Art
Beachcombing is both a job and a passion for Pete Clarkson. As a park worker on the wild and beautiful outer coast of Vancouver Island, he’s been picking up marine debris...
My Heart Attack: The Beat Goes On
It was a case of the World Wide Web unearthing treasure on the doorstep. It was late, after midnight, and Sheldon Cohen was online conducting an increasingly urgent search. Everything...
Elephant 1967: Passage from India
It was a job that called for green screen. Lots of green screen. Colin MacKenzie and Aparna Kapur have just completed an unusual shoot in southern India, kicking off production...
By the Time We Get to Radville
The Prairies called — and the NFB answered. A small team from the Northwest Studio recently completed an 8-day road trip across the southern prairie grasslands — a journey that...