Home-School Activities from NFB Education (Week 4)
The fourth week of at-home education brings us stories of shamans, tales from the environment, and a peek inside highrise buildings around the world.
Posts Tagged “highrise”
3 Films on Urban Living: Are We Thriving or Just Surviving?
Roughly 7 billion of us share this planet and half of us live in densely populated cities. Watch 3 films that explore our relationship with urban living.
English Program: Five to Watch in ’15
Get an overview of 5 projects in production at the National Film Board of Canada - including new docs, interactives, and the NFB's very first featured animated documentary.
The world around us: watch 7 films about architecture and the built environment
Join us on a cinematic tour through the history of humanity's built environments—castles, pyramids, suburbs, skyscrapers—in 7 films about architecture.
Highrise | Tall Buildings, Short History
Gerry Flahive discusses the latest installment of the Emmy-award winning interactive documentary, Highrise. Directed by Katerina Cizek.
Girls Learning Code at HIGHRISE
*This is a guest post by Kat Cizek, creator of HIGHRISE, a multi-year, multi-platform documentary about vertical living in the global suburbs. Find the original – and much more –...
New HIGHRISE documentary takes form to new heights
by Katerina Cizek I used to dislike highrise buildings. I would drive by them, without much thought, and dread the elevator when I actually had to go inside. These days,...
NFB Interactive…A rich resource for students to explore
This post was written by guest blogger Carol Arcus, a former educator with the Toronto District School Board. *** Watching HIGHRISE, I am reminded of Marshall McLuhan, who warned us...
Out My Window and In the Classroom
leah sherry is a media literacy teacher at the Monsignor Fraser Annex Campus in the CICO program, Toronto Catholic District School Board (TCDSB). *** When I first discovered Highrise: Out...
4 NFB/interactive projects up for Webby Awards
This year, we’re proud to announce we have 4 projects competing for a 2011 Webby Award. The Webby Awards, sometimes referred to as the Oscars of the Web, are international...
NFB/interactive and MIPTV
It’s been a big week for us at MIPTV in Cannes, France, and while we’ve been releasing information in bits and pieces, I thought I’d take a moment to group...
4 interactive projects up for the 2011 FITC People’s Choice Awards
The 2011 FITC (Flash in the Can) Awards are coming up fast and this year the NFB has 4 interactive projects competing for prizes. It’s a People’s Choice Award, which...