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NFB Pause: Alanis Obomsawin Back On Stage

NFB Pause: Alanis Obomsawin Back On Stage

Utrecht, Holland, November 12, 2017. Food is piled high on the table of a local bar. Sitting around it, a group of Montrealers pinch themselves, wondering if they’ve really just watched a musical performance by 85-year-old Alanis Obomsawin.

Birth of a Family Confronts Legacy of the Sixties Scoop

Birth of a Family Confronts Legacy of the Sixties Scoop

It’s September 16, 2015, a busy Wednesday afternoon at the Calgary International Airport. A small NFB crew is about to document an extraordinary encounter — a crucial early scene in...

Isabella Weetaluktuk Shines Light on NFB ARCHIVES

Isabella Weetaluktuk Shines Light on NFB ARCHIVES

It’s little more than a fragment, a few seconds of footage shot in the Canadian Arctic over 50 years ago, but it’s pure visual gold. Four Inuit kids, oblivious to...

Resistance Song: When Docs Make Music

Resistance Song: When Docs Make Music

“The really crucial distortions in history come not from lies, but from omissions.” So said the historian Howard Zinn noting how official North American history silences the voices of the...

Exploring the concept of identity in the classroom through Indigenous films

Exploring the concept of identity in the classroom through Indigenous films

Educators: draw inspiration from Indigenous pedagogies such as narrative approach and empathy to explore the concept of identity with your students.

Crazywater, a powerful new doc on addiction, streams FREE online Nov. 16th-25th, 2014

Crazywater, a powerful new doc on addiction, streams FREE online Nov. 16th-25th, 2014

Inuvialuit filmmaker Dennis Allen takes a first-person approach to telling the stories of First Nations communities affected by alcoholism and other substance abuse. Watch this powerful, personal, and inspiring film now.

Alanis Obomsawin and the Children’s Court Case

Alanis Obomsawin and the Children’s Court Case

A landmark court case that will greatly impact the future of First Nations children is taking place right now at the Human Rights Tribunal in Ottawa and filmmaker Alanis Obomsawin is in the heart of it. Find out more here!

7 Days Only! Watch Alanis Obomsawin’s New Doc on Life in Attawapiskat for Free Online

7 Days Only! Watch Alanis Obomsawin’s New Doc on Life in Attawapiskat for Free Online

Delve into the world of Attawapiskat's residents with Alanis Obomsawin's latest documentary, The People of the Kattawapiskak River.

We Were Children: 2 Residential School Survivors Share Story in Powerful New Film

We Were Children: 2 Residential School Survivors Share Story in Powerful New Film

The following is a guest post from Lisa Meeches, executive producer of We Were Children. The film had its world premiere at the Vancouver International Film Festival (VIFF) in October...

Alanis Obomsawin Box Set Giveaway

In honour of Alanis Obomsawin’s Outstanding Achievement Award Retrospective at the 2009 Hot Docs festival tonight, we’re giving away two box sets of her seminal work on the Oka Crisis...