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...
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The Astral Media Scholarship Program is giving money to emerging filmmakers – do you qualify?
The Astral Media Scholarship Program has put out it’s call for applications. The program has 3 arms through which they support emerging-level filmmakers in Quebec and British Columbia: The Doc...
Meet Namrata – the inspiration behind Deepa Mehta’s Heaven on Earth
Namrata Gill is one of the many real-life inspirations for Deepa Mehta’s film Heaven on Earth. After 6 years, she courageously left an abusive relationship and launched a surprising new...
Meet Grace, Milly and Lucy… and learn the truth about child soldiers
oehttp://www.nfb.ca/film/grace_milly_lucy_child_soldiers_trailer/ Raymonde Provencher’s film Grace, Milly, Lucy… Child Soldiers will shock you. It exposes the little-known tragedy of child soldiers in Uganda, and explores how they can possibly live normal...
The Socalled Movie: An interview with director Garry Beitel
Meet Socalled, aka Josh Dolgin. He’s a multi-disciplinary musician and artist whose unique blend of klezmer, hip hop and funk is blasting through the boundaries that separate music of different...
An inside look at A Drummer’s Dream, premiering at Hot Docs
oehttp://www.nfb.ca/film/drummers_dream_trailer/ Director John Walker’s latest documentary A Drummer’s Dream has its world premiere at this year’s Hot Docs Festival (April 29 – May 9). It’s an incredible film with lots...
Director John Kastner discusses Life With Murder, premiering at Hot Docs
oehttp://www.nfb.ca/film/life_with_murder_clip/ Life With Murder, a documentary film by triple Emmy Award-winning director John Kastner tells a remarkable story about a murder in the family. The film is premiering at the...
Hot Docs special: 3 questions with Flawed director Andrea Dorfman
oehttp://www.nfb.ca/film/flawed_clip_1/ Andrea Dorfman’s animated short Flawed will be screening at the 2010 Hot Docs Film Festival, which kicks off today. It’s a beautiful little film about a budding long distance...
Flawed: A little film about big ideas
oehttp://www.nfb.ca/film/flawed_clip_1/ We’ve got this brand new film from Andrea Dorfman that I’m really excited about called Flawed. It’s an animated short about a woman who meets a man who turns...
Presenters wanted for the next Hot Docs/NFB Doc Summit
The NFB Doc Summit is looking for submissions from presenters that address recommendations, proposed policies and/or strategies for the Canadian documentary industry. This year’s event takes place on Friday, May...
2 films, 2 filmmakers honoured at 2009 Hot Docs festival
Two NFB films and two filmmakers were honoured at tonight’s awards ceremony at the 2009 Hot Docs film festival in Toronto. Invisible City, Hubert Davis’ documentary about two boys crossing...
Strong NFB presence at the 2009 Hot Docs Festival
This year, the NFB has an impressive eight films being presented at Hot Docs, along with the Spotlight on the NFB at 70 program and the Outstanding Achievement Award Retrospective for Canada's leading Aboriginal filmmaker, Alanis Obomsawin.