Here At Home: An Interactive Window into a Radical Canadian Experiment
Most of us living in cities routinely cross paths with the homeless. Faced with their hardship, we can’t help but wonder: Who are these people? How did they end up...
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Notman’s World: Depicting the Dawn of Canadian Photography
Discover Notman's World, a short doc illustrating William Notman's essential contributions to the birth of photography in Canada.
The Devil’s Toy: Skateboarding in Montreal in 1966
The NFB, as we all know, is a total paradox. On the one hand, it is a 73 year-old public institution. On the other, it is so insanely cool and...
Feature film on Canada’s most famous unknown author premieres at FIFA
The Mystery of Mazo de la Roche, our new feature film about enigmatic Canadian writer Mazo de la Roche (author of the Jalna novels), has its world premiere at FIFA...
Want to participate in a 12-week paid animation apprenticeship at the NFB?
Attention all budding and blooming animators! Hothouse, our very own “12-week paid apprenticeship in full-on professional animation filmmaking” is once again calling for submissions. Things are shaping up to look...
The NFB Tour resumes in October
In late 2010, we launched the NFB Tour, a series of town-hall style meetings across the country during which Tom Perlmutter, head of the NFB, met with a variety...
FNC: Calling all crossmedia artists and women with phones
Montreal’s Festival du nouveau cinéma (FNC) is celebrating its 40th anniversary this October. Aside from the programming and special events (which we’ll tell you everything about as opening night approaches),...
Free Socalled show and screening in Parc Lafontaine August 4th
Remember Socalled? If you’re a fan and happen to live in or around Montreal, you’re in for a treat. An outdoors treat at that. (Ah, isn’t summer sweet.) Next Thursday...
Roddy McManus to head NFB Animation Studio
Our English-language Animation Studio will soon have a new executive producer. Starting August 8, Roddy McManus will succeed veteran animation producer David Verrall as head of our Montreal-based animation studio....
Get your freak on, Fantasia is here
Freaks and geeks take note, the event Quentin Tarantino once called “the most important and prestigious genre film festival on this continent” is kicking off tomorrow. The Fantasia International Film...
YUL 871: A Feature Film for the 1960s
Starting with the release of Drylanders in 1963, both the English and French programs at the National Film Board began to produce modestly priced feature films for the nation’s cinema...
A gift from Patrick Watson
After a celebrated run at Hot Docs, the documentay St-Henri, the 26 of August opens in theatres in Montreal (Cinéma Parallèle – with English subtitles) and Quebec City (Cinéma Le...