What makes a great documentary? Tips & advice from our filmmakers
Blogger Julie Matlin tries to answer the question, "What makes a great documentary?"
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.
13 short films by Aboriginal filmmakers for the 2010 Vancouver Winter Games
The following is a guest post by animation producer Michael Fukushima. oehttp://www.nfb.ca/film/vistas_walk-in-the-forest/ For better or worse (you choose your own side ’cause I’ve got mine), the Winter Olympics spectacle only...
CBC interview about Hothouse, the NFB’s animation emerging filmmaker program
Animation producer Michael Fukushima recently did an interview with CBC Newfoundland about the NFB’s Hothouse program – a 12-week intensive paid animation apprenticeship for emerging filmmakers. You can listen to...
Demystifying Camera Terms: How to tell a Master from a Long Shot
Whether you’re walking onto set, reading a shooting script or grabbing a seat in the editing room, there’s a lot of film-specific terminology being thrown around. To that end, here’s...
Interview tips for documentary filmmaking
For those of you who are thinking of getting into documentary filmmaking or those of you who just want to brush up on your skills, here are some tips for...
Behind the scenes of Guy Maddin’s Night Mayor
oehttp://www.nfb.ca/film/night_mayor_trailer/ We’ve just added 2 short films to NFB.ca about the making of Guy Maddin’s short film, Night Mayor (see below). The film, about a man who is thwarted in...
A sneak peek inside our 3D lab at the NFB, Part 2
Last Friday, I posted the first half of an interview with Maral Mohammadian. This is Part 2. Julie Matlin: How does the StereoLab work? Do you have people coming in...
6 Strategies for Distributing your Film on the Web – Peter Broderick
Producer Marie-France Côté reveals Peter Broderick's 7 tips for distributing your film on the web.
A sneak peek inside our 3D lab at the NFB
With the addition of 3D films to NFB.ca, I thought I’d take the opportunity to pull back the curtain and let you all peek inside the NFB’s StereoLab. The StereoLab...
Hothouse 6 Call for Submissions
The following is a guest post by Maral Mohammadian. Tell it in a minute. Do it in 3 months. Make it Stereoscopic 3D. After a lot of hard work to...
Watch Cordell Barker teach a master class in animation
Animator Cordell Barker talks about the making of The Cat Came Back and Runaway in a master class given during the 2009 Get Animated! cross-country tour.
Nina Paley: A ‘Free’ Distribution Case Study
People talk a lot about the economics of giving content away for “free”, but only a few put that into action. And fewer still share their experiences with everyone so...