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...
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.
A look inside the Toronto Mediatheque’s animation workshops for adults
The following is a guest post by Tanya Koivusalo. On July 13, the NFB Mediatheque held a sold-out animation workshop, Demystifying the Reel, where adults of all ages had a...
How to create sound for a 1-minute animated short
The following is a guest post from Fred Casia. The sound composition for my Hothouse 6 film, Marvin Parson’s Inner Wild Wilderness, has always been a huge component, but in...
4 things about Hothouse animator Greg Labute
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 Kiarra Albina
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 Megan Turnbull
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 Fred Casia
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...
Up the Yangtze director Yung Chang on local agriculture and film
The following is a guest post by Tanya Koivusalo. oehttp://www.nfb.ca/film/earth_to_mouth/ On Wednesday July 7th, the NFB Mediatheque will be hosting Homegrown Films, an exciting FREE event as part of its...
NFB Mediatheque’s Jennifer Krick on creating sets and characters for animation films
The following is a guest post by Tanya Koivusalo. NFB Mediatheque Customer Service Agent Jennifer Krick has one of the most fun jobs in the world – she creates the...
3 more films from the DOXA Connexions Youth Forum
Following up on yesterday’s post, here are the 3 remaining films from the 2010 DOXA Youth Connexions Forum: Love Life Josephine Anderson is 24 years old, holds a B.A. in...
Making air waves: Aboriginal filmmaker Dennis Allen on new radio-inspired doc CBQM
Yesterday was National Aboriginal Day, and to mark the occasion NFB.ca launched CBQM, Dennis Allen’s new feature length documentary: oehttp://www.nfb.ca/film/cbqm A charming, honest tribute to volunteer-run radio station CBQM (690...
3 films from the 2010 DOXA Connexions Youth Forum
A few weeks back, we wrote about the DOXA Connexions Youth Forum with a promise to follow up when the participants’ films were completed. Well! The films are now all...