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....
Posts Tagged “documentaries”
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...
Filmmaker Hubert Davis talks about Robin Phillips and the making of Move Your Mind
oehttp://www.nfb.ca/film/move_your_mind/ Hubert Davis is an Oscar-nominated filmmaker based in Toronto. He made his directorial debut with Hardwood, a tribute to his father, former Harlem Globetrotter Mel Davis. He went on...
Director Pablo Alvarez-Mesa on Jelena’s Song, screening tomorrow at Montreal’s International Documentary Festival
oehttp://www.nfb.ca/film/jelenas_song_trailer/ Pablo Alvarez-Mesa is an award-winning Colombian-Canadian documentary filmmaker who shares his time between Montreal and British Columbia. His 4th film, Jelena’s Song, explores the life of his friend Jelena...
Landing in Dresden in a Dash-8
oehttp://www.nfb.ca/playlists/i-was-child-holocaust-survivors/viewing/i_was_child_holocaust_survivor_clip_1/ Filmmaker Ann Marie Fleming is at DOK Leipzig in Germany, presenting her film I Was A Child of Holocaust Survivors. She has graciously agreed to write some guest posts...
A coffee shop chat with filmmaker Paul Cowan
Paul Cowan is a Canadian filmmaker who spent many years working at the NFB. He retired from the Film Board in 2009, after directing Paris 1919, a film adaptation of...
Racing Thoughts in theatres for Mental Illness Awareness Week
oehttp://www.nfb.ca/film/racing_thoughts_trailer/ Louiselle Noël’s new film, Racing Thoughts is being screened in cities across Canada this week in conjunction with Mental Illness Awareness Week (October 3-9, 2010). In the film, Louiselle...
Royal Journey: The National Film Board’s first major hit
The story behind the making of Royal Journey, the NFB's first major box office hit.
Grain Elevator fervour
oehttp://www.nfb.ca/film/grain_elevator/ Part of my job involves putting films online. There’s a calendar (prepared by our Collection analysts) that I consult every week. It tells me what films are supposed to...
Tagged: How privacy became a commodity
oehttp://www.nfb.ca/film/tagged_privacy_as_commodity/ This year, we released a film called Tagged, a short documentary about a hipster who implanted himself with an RFID chip. The film appealed to me on a few...
A woman’s place is at home… and first base, second base, shortstop…
The story behind Baseball Girls, Lois Siegel's documentary on women and Baseball.
Live Tweeting event w/director Gesar Mukpo during the CBC broadcast of Tulku on Aug. 11 at 10 pm ET
oehttp://www.nfb.ca/film/tulku_trailer On Wednesday, August 11 at 10 pm, Am I Reincarnated? Tulku will air on the CBC News Network as part of The Passionate Eye. In association with the broadcast,...