Making The Tesla World Light: An Interview with Matthew Rankin
As Tesla World Light heads to Cannes 2017, catch an in-depth interview with its avant-garde creator, Matthew Rankin.
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.
New Voices, Necessary Stories: NFB at Hot Docs 2017
Documentary is Canada’s national art form because the history of our cinema — and, in important ways, the history of our country — has been written in documentary. If you...
NFB & UK’s National Theatre Collaborate on VR Doc
Among the productions premiering in the 2017 edition of Storyscapes – the Tribeca Festival’s showcase of new immersive media – is Draw Me Close, a striking hybrid of creative non-fiction VR and live performance from Jordan Tannahill, one of the most inventive voices in contemporary Canadian theatre.
Kyma by Phillipe Baylaucq: Exploring the Waves in 360
Learn more about Kyma, a new immersive projection experience created by Philippe Baylaucq for the Montreal Planetarium.
Sixties Scoop: The Restorative Power of Documentary
A collaboration between Saskatoon journalist Betty Ann Adam and director Tasha Hubbard, both Scoop survivors, Birth of a Family chronicles an extraordinary gathering in Banff, where Betty Ann and her three siblings come together for the first time as a family unit.
Upcoming Animation | The Awakening: Casting and Finishing the Puppets
Enjoy a quick interview with Brenda Baumgarten, the Toronto-based artist who made the puppets for François Lévesque's upcoming short animation, The Awakening.
Hispaniola Mon Amour
With Hispaniola, a feature doc currently in production, filmmaker Michèle Stephenson returns to the land of her birth to document the fallout of a 2013 ruling by the Dominican courts that retroactively strips citizenship rights from any Haitian-Dominican born after 1929.
Ways of Seeing at the NFB: 5 to Watch in ’17
Stay up-to-date with the NFB 's current production slate with these 5 titles to watch in 2017.
Fixing the Gaze: New Indigenous Work at the NFB
Take a first look at the many Indigenous-directed projects currently in development, production or release in the NFB's English Program.
The Auchter Effect: Haida Myth Gets Animated
Emerging director Christopher Auchter plunges us into a mythic watery underworld in The Mountain of SGaana, an animated short that's just completed postproduction in the BC & Yukon Studio.
Q&A: Paloma Dawkins at Play in the VR Zone
An autodidact who’s as adept in cinema as she is in comix or game design, Dawkins is part of a young posse that’s joyously shaking things up at the NFB Animation Studio.
Experimental Instagram Doc Profiles Indigenous Activism
The face of contemporary Indigenous community activism, fuelled by new resolve and focus, is being profiled in an innovative experiment in social media storytelling from the NFB North West Studio.