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Marcy Page, Winner of This Year’s Winsor McCay Award

Marcy Page, Winner of This Year’s Winsor McCay Award

Every year at the Annie Awards in Los Angeles, the Hollywood chapter of the International Animated Film Association (ASIFA-Hollywood) presents the Winsor McCay Award in recognition of an individual’s career contributions to the art of animation. The 2024 winner is filmmaker and producer Marcy Page, who spent many years at the National Film Board.

Meet the 2021 ONFB XP Participants

Meet the 2021 ONFB XP Participants

NFB XP is an exciting new incubator at the National Film Board designed for animators to test out new ideas and find technology solutions for animation problems.

The Internationalist Impulse: New NFB Animation

The Internationalist Impulse: New NFB Animation

An internationalist impulse has fuelled NFB animation from the get-go, instilled at the outset by Norman McLaren, the cosmopolitan and wildly inventive young Scot who founded the tradition back in...

2020 Vision: Five to Watch at the NFB

2020 Vision: Five to Watch at the NFB

Canada's public film producer kicks off new decade with inventive flair.

Indigenous Renaissance: 10 to Watch at the NFB

Indigenous Renaissance: 10 to Watch at the NFB

"Canada, are you ready to see what needs to be seen?” Indigenous filmmaking flourishes at the NFB.

In the Frame: Five NFB Projects to Watch in 2019

In the Frame: Five NFB Projects to Watch in 2019

2018 ended on a high note for the NFB. Two NFB productions have made it onto TIFF’s prestigious Top Ten list — Patrick Bouchard’s masterful stop motion animation The Subject...

Watch Bone Mother, Dale Hayward & Sylvie Trouvé’s gothic animation

Watch Bone Mother, Dale Hayward & Sylvie Trouvé’s gothic animation

What Baba Yaga wants: Animators Dale Haywood and Sylvie Trouvé craft gothic 3D-printed animation.

Deyzangeroo: Ehsan Gharib Howls at the Moon

Deyzangeroo: Ehsan Gharib Howls at the Moon

With Deyzangeroo, now available online, filmmaker Ehsan Gharib infuses ancient Iranian lunar ritual with powerful new resonance in awesome animation.

Moving Pictures for Interesting Times: NFB at Fall Festivals

Moving Pictures for Interesting Times: NFB at Fall Festivals

Astra Taylor's passionate movie essay on imperilled state of democracy is among timely NFB projects on 2018 fall festival circuit.

Mobilize! NFB Puts Truth & Reconciliation Onscreen

Mobilize! NFB Puts Truth & Reconciliation Onscreen

“Stories are wondrous things. And they are dangerous,” says Thomas King. King knows a thing or two about storytelling and its cultural clout. Born to a Cherokee father and Greek/German...

Animation sans frontières: Annecy and the NFB

Animation sans frontières: Annecy and the NFB

The year was 1960. The place: Annecy, a historic town in the French Alps, where a group of local cinephiles were mounting the first competitive edition of the Annecy International...

Caterpillarplasty | The Botched and the Beautiful

Caterpillarplasty | The Botched and the Beautiful

Discover Caterpillarplasty, a mesmerizing and meticulously crafted tale of body modification, medical technology and transcendence by David Barlow-Krelina.