Outside the Box: New Production at the NFB
Learn more about the ten projects that were recently greenlit for production across the NFB’s English Program, French Program and Interactive Studios.
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.
Marta Pajek Concludes Impossible Figures Trilogy at NFB
A ticking clock. A cataclysmic bang. And then they just disappeared… In one deft flourish Marta Pajek plunges us into the richly imagined universe of Impossible Figures and Other Stories...
Queer Life 50 Years After Bill C-150
50 years after Bill C-150, five LGBTQ2+ artists reflect on contemporary queer life.
Freedom Road: Angelina McLeod Makes her Way Home
Angelina McLeod returns to the Shoal Lake 40 First Nation to participate in a momentous collective action.
imagineNATIVE Celebrates 20 Years of Visual Sovereignty
ImagineNATIVE is turning 20 this year and the NFB, a long-time friend of the festival, is heading to the anniversary edition with nine projects — a slate that includes four world premieres.
Candidate Reveal | New identities: An Israel/Canada International Coproduction Partnership in Digital Creation
The Gesher Multicultural Film Fund, the Makor Foundation for Israeli Films, the Haifa International Film Festival, the Canada Media Fund, the National Film Board of Canada, Hub Montréal and Xn Québec are proud to introduce the twelve candidates who will participate in New Identities, a series of workshops designed to foster conversations about identity and push the limits of new forms of narration.
Theodore Ushev Comes Home
In some ways, The Physics of Sorrow is a culmination of Theodore Ushev’s work to date. It’s an epic, pained and deeply personal musing on the wounds of a generation of people in exile—not from their homeland but from themselves.
Got shots? Seeking Images of Mary Two-Axe Earley
The term ‘archival material’ covers a dizzying spectrum of possibilities, everything from radio interviews to family snapshots, and it can provide the lifeblood to a historical documentary. Just ask Courtney...
Barb Cranmer: Bak̓wam Storyteller & Wonder Sister
“It was important for me to get the truth out there, from our own perspective, and do it with the respect and integrity that comes from our community. That’s been...
This is Not a Movie & Other Cinematic Events: NFB at Canada’s Fall Festivals
The NFB is heading to Canada’s fall festivals with a slate pulsating with contemporary energy and vision, with no fewer than five titles getting world premieres at this year’s edition of TIFF.
A Fine Day in Masset: Christopher Auchter Revisits Crucial Moment in Haida Renaissance
It was a fine day in Masset: August 22, 1969. For the first time in living memory a traditional totem pole was being raised in the community. Surrounded by their...
Director’s Notes: Robert Moberg and Way of the Hunter
I grew up in the 1960s in rural Alberta, on a small farm near the town of Rocky Mountain House. My father had to provide for a large family of four adults and seven kids, and hunting in the nearby woods was a large part of how he did it.