NFB launches BlackBerry Playbook app
RIM launched its new BlackBerry® PlayBook™ and we’re proud to announce that it includes an NFB films app – right out of the box. The app was co-developed by RIM...
Posts Tagged “documentaries”
Pour la suite du monde: The Perrault Classic in English
The English version of Pierre Perrault and Michel Brault’s Pour la suite du monde is a really interesting example of adapting a film into the other language.
6 NFB films selected for Hot Docs 2011
Hot Docs, America’s largest documentary festival, selected and announced the 2011 line-up last week. Some 200 films garnered the attention of the festival’s programmers and the NFB will make a...
NFB Films for Android now available!
Yes, the day has come – our NFB Films for the Android is now available! After the tremendous success of our iPhone app (named one of the best apps of...
The Pattern of Man: Enduring Wilderness and National Park History
This post was written by Dr. Claire Campbell, a professor of History and Canadian Studies at Dalhousie University in Halifax. It is the first post in a series on Ernest...
Friday staff pick: Cry of the Wild
oehttp://www.nfb.ca/film/cry_of_the_wild/ I saw Cry of the Wild as a teenager in the early 1970s at a movie theatre in Montreal. The film was talked about everywhere. There were TV ,...
Turning 32: An interview with director Robbie Hart
The following is a guest post by Tanya Koivusalo. What are the universal characteristics we humans share? Robbie Hart and Luc Côté explore this intriguing question in their new feature-length...
7 documentary tweeters to follow on Twitter
oehttp://www.nfb.ca/hd/rip_a_remix_manifesto/ One of our followers on Twitter asked me the other day who I’d recommend he follow for interesting tweets on the doc world. As I sent off my response,...
Stories From Our Land: Iqaluit Log (Part 2)
The following is a guest post by Carrie Haber. Directors Zacharias Kunuk (L), and Sturla Gunnarsson (R) with Northwest Centre’s Executive Producer David Christensen In November, I flew from Montreal...
Stories From Our Land: Iqaluit Log (Part 1)
The following is a guest post by Carrie Haber. In November, I flew from Montreal to Iqaluit as an instructor for the NFB/Nunavut Film Development Corporation’s Stories From Our Land...
2010 Staff Picks: An unconventional Top 10
We’ve been posting a lot of lists lately, from ASIFA’s best in animation to TIFF’s Canada’s Top Ten. Feeling all in the spirit, we decided to share our own list....
This Land: a film and an interactive project to explore
oehttp://www.nfb.ca/film/this_land Today’s featured film on NFB.ca is This Land. Because I happen to like the Arctic a lot (both in image and in person), I thought I’d encourage you to...