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A Fine Day in Masset: Christopher Auchter Revisits Crucial Moment in Haida Renaissance

A Fine Day in Masset: Christopher Auchter Revisits Crucial Moment in Haida Renaissance

It was a fine day in Masset: August 22, 1969. For the first time in living memory a traditional totem pole was being raised in the community. Surrounded by their...

Alanis Obomsawin’s Hopeful New Opus

Alanis Obomsawin’s Hopeful New Opus

Words have always been precious to Abenaki filmmaker Alanis Obomsawin who routinely begins production on a film by simply listening, recording quiet conversations with her main subjects. Much of this original audio later occupies a central place on her final soundtrack.

New Voices, Necessary Stories: NFB at Hot Docs 2017

New Voices, Necessary Stories: NFB at Hot Docs 2017

Documentary is Canada’s national art form because the history of our cinema — and, in important ways, the history of our country — has been written in documentary. If you...

Ash & Oil: Julia Ivanova’s Short on Post-fire Fort McMurray

Ash & Oil: Julia Ivanova’s Short on Post-fire Fort McMurray

Ash & Oil: Fort McMurray After the Fire is the NFB’s first collaboration with the Guardian’s short documentary platform, launched in 2014 under the direction of Charlie Philips, former Deputy Director at the Sheffield Doc/Fest.

Making Movie History | New iPad App Brings Together Portraits of 61 Iconic NFB Figures

Making Movie History | New iPad App Brings Together Portraits of 61 Iconic NFB Figures

A new iPad app exploring the NFB’s unique place in Canadian cinema is now available on the iTunes Canada App Store. GET APP The app, Making Movie History: A Portrait in 61...

Lights, Camera, Parity: NFB Women Shine at Hot Docs

Lights, Camera, Parity: NFB Women Shine at Hot Docs

It’s a banner year for NFB women directors. Only weeks after the NFB made its historic commitment to gender parity in production, Canada’s public producer is heading to Hot Docs...

Nowhere Land: When short films tell big stories

Nowhere Land: When short films tell big stories

March 4, Iqaluit. The doors have just opened at the Astro movie theatre, where Bonnie Ammaaq is about to attend the local premiere of her new short documentary Nowhere Land....

Explore “Making Movie History: A Portrait in 61 Parts”, a new web doc series

Explore “Making Movie History: A Portrait in 61 Parts”, a new web doc series

Want to know more about how and why Canadian film culture came to be the way it is? Go straight to the source in our new interactive web doc! Interviews with poets, dreamers, and pioneers reveal the history of the NFB... and maybe even a bit about what movies mean to Canadians today.