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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.

The Socalled Movie: An interview with director Garry Beitel

Meet Socalled, aka Josh Dolgin. He’s a multi-disciplinary musician and artist whose unique blend of klezmer, hip hop and funk is blasting through the boundaries that separate music of different...

Director John Kastner discusses Life With Murder, premiering at Hot Docs

oehttp://www.nfb.ca/film/life_with_murder_clip/ Life With Murder, a documentary film by triple Emmy Award-winning director John Kastner tells a remarkable story about a murder in the family. The film is premiering at the...

Hot Docs special: 3 questions with Flawed director Andrea Dorfman

oehttp://www.nfb.ca/film/flawed_clip_1/ Andrea Dorfman’s animated short Flawed will be screening at the 2010 Hot Docs Film Festival, which kicks off today. It’s a beautiful little film about a budding long distance...

This house is gettin’ HOT: An inside look at the NFB’s emerging animators program

This house is gettin’ HOT: An inside look at the NFB’s emerging animators program

The following is a guest post by Megan Turnbull, as part of the Hothouse 6 program. *** My name is Megan Turnbull and I am lucky enough to have been...

Director Cal Garingan discusses his anti-racism mockumentary, Jaded

Cal Garingan, director of Jaded, spoke to our friends at Schema Magazine about the film, its inspiration, and its main characters. Our thanks to Schema for allowing us to share...

Amateurs try their hand at film animation

The following is a guest post by Tanya Koivusalo. On Tuesday evening, a group of film buffs and aspiring filmmakers took film into their own hands, literally, at the NFB...

Filmmaker Philippe Baylaucq on screening A Dream for Kabul in Japan

Note: This post was taken from our French sister site, ONF.ca, and has been translated into English. oehttp://www.nfb.ca/film/a_dream_for_kabul_trailer/ Philippe Baylaucq is back from Tokyo, Japan, where he presented his film...

How to use technology as a tool for social change

oehttp://www.nfb.ca/film/seven_interventions_of_filmmaker-in-residence/ Today I put a small selection of films online from the Filmmaker-in-Residence box set. This project, which was led by filmmaker Katerina Cizek, is kind of like a modern-day...

Behind the scenes of the animated short Tying Your Own Shoes

The following is a guest post by Tanya Koivusalo. oehttp://www.nfb.ca/film/tying_your_own_shoes_trailer The Project The NFB Mediatheque in Toronto is thrilled to present two special events this March Break as part of...

Announcing Hothouse 6 Participants

The following is a guest post by animation producer Michael Fukushima. After a record-breaking number of submissions and several days of enthusiastic review and heated debate, we have our “Hothouse...

The inner workings of the NFB Archives

The inner workings of the NFB Archives

Many people don’t realize that here at the NFB, our films are the tip of the iceberg. We have thousands of hours of archival footage online and thousands more...

Demystifying Camera Terms: 7 camera moves explained

Last week, I wrote about different camera shots. This week I’m going to cover language that describes how the camera moves. Why the camera moves for a given shot is...