Upcoming Animation | The Awakening: Meet Barnabe Here at the NFB, we’re fortunate to work with talented artists who, day in day out, create strong characters and magical universes in the studio. While it is always fun to watch...
Annecy 2016 | Michael Fukushima Explores Annecy! The NFB’s Michael Fukushima, executive producer of the English program animation studio, was in France recently for the Annecy Festival, the world’s largest event devoted to animation. The NFB had a strong presence at...
The Head Vanishes | An Interview with Animator Franck Dion * This post is a translation. Read the original French post here. Franck Dion’s The Head Vanishes was part of the official selection of the prestigious Annecy International Animation Film...
Free Animation! | Watch 5 Shorts about Kids and Dads on NFB.ca This Father’s Day, celebrate dads everywhere with this neat selection of films that explore the joys and challenges of fatherhood. Yay, dads! 1. There are many roads to fatherhood Some of...
Window Horses | Discover the NFB’s First Feature-Length Animation to Screen at Annecy in Almost 20 Years “Window Horses hits all the things that are important to me: it’s pro-girl, pro-tolerance, pro-diversity and PRO-ART!! My nieces are mixed race and it’s very important to me that they...
The NFB in Annecy | The Lakeshore Awash with Talent! * This is a translated guest post by French Animation Studio executive producer Julie Roy. Read the original French post here. I have been participating in the Annecy International Animation Film...
Free Animation! | Celebrate World Health Day With 5 Tonic Shorts Despite the fact it is (or should be) everyone’s highest, most prized possession, health remains a bit of a mystery. What is health, exactly? Harmony between all of the body’s parts?...
Syrinx | Ryan Larkin’s Very First Film Is Finally Online Watch Oscar-nominated Ryan Larkin's ravishing first film Syrinx, a very short charcoal animation recently added to NFB.ca
Free Animation! | Welcome Spring with 3 Refreshing Ryan Larkin Shorts Mesmerizing and verging on the psychedelic, Ryan Larkin’s early shorts are always a breath of fresh air. A visual artist first, Larkin attended the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts’ Art...
8 Female Directors Who Are Crushing It At the NFB With the current conversations surrounding the abysmal under-representation of female directors in Hollywood we’ve decided to highlight the fantastic history and confidence the NFB has, and continues to have, with female directors.
Who Are We? | Explore Your Canadian Identity with This Hilarious Short Cartoon O Canada. Who are we, and why do we live here again? These questions, as slippery as codfish and as vast as the Prairies, have haunted Canadians since before 1867. In Who Are...