A coffee shop chat with filmmaker Paul Cowan
Paul Cowan is a Canadian filmmaker who spent many years working at the NFB. He retired from the Film Board in 2009, after directing Paris 1919, a film adaptation of...
The Craft
Here we feature updates, tips, and other useful information for creators in the film and media industries, including interviews with practitioners and discussion of emerging technologies, forms, and audiences.
How to finance your short film
oehttp://www.nfb.ca/film/hothouse_6_financing/ Back in June, we held a session at our Montreal headquarters on How to Finance Your Short Film as part of the Hothouse 6 emerging filmmaker program. It was...
Mi’gmaq artist Phyllis Grant talks about Waseteg, premiering tomorrow at the Atlantic Film Festival
I told you recently about 4 NFB productions that were selected at the Atlantic Film Festival. Among them was Waseteg, Phyllis Grant’s animated short film about a Mig’maq girl and...
What goes into clearing rights for streaming films on NFB.ca
Although I have been part of the NFB web team since last Christmas, I recently realized I was still pretty hazy about the whole notion of internet rights. Why are...
Enter the Celebrate Parks video contest
What’s your favourite Canadian national park? I got several. This is a photo I took in one of them last summer – Georgian Bay Islands National Park, on Ontario’s Lake...
Filmmaker Ann Marie Fleming on mentoring Hothouse animators
Hothouse is a 12-week paid apprenticeship program for emerging filmmakers that has been taking place in the NFB’s Montreal Animation Studio since 2003. Each year, a different filmmaker is chosen...
Tulku director Gesar Mukpo on first-person filmmaking and reincarnation
Tulku is a full-length NFB documentary that tells the story of Western tulkus, young people born in modern Western cultures who were recognized, when they were children, as reincarnations of...
Pixar holds masterclass in Vancouver, Sept. 24 – 25, 2010
On September 24 & 25, vanarts will be presenting a Masterclass in Animation and Story Development, led by story artist Matthew Luhn and animator Andrew Gordon, both from Pixar Animation...
One Day On Earth: Help Document the World’s Story on 10/10/10
If you only had one day to document the world, what story would you tell? This is the question the One Day on Earth project would like you to ponder...
Pitch your cross-media project for a chance to win the ARTE Pixel Pitch Prize
This October, The Pixel Market is hosting a 2-day marketplace in London, England and will showcase 20 of the best international cross-media projects to financiers and decision-makers from across the...
4 things about Hothouse animator Zane Kozak
This post is part of a series of interviews with this year’s Hothouse participants. Created in 2003, Hothouse is a 12-week paid apprenticeship program for emerging filmmakers that takes place...
4 things about Hothouse animator Marie Valade
This post is part of a series of interviews with this year’s Hothouse participants. Created in 2003, Hothouse is a 12-week paid apprenticeship program for emerging filmmakers that takes place...