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Marcy Page, Winner of This Year’s Winsor McCay Award

Marcy Page, Winner of This Year’s Winsor McCay Award

Every year at the Annie Awards in Los Angeles, the Hollywood chapter of the International Animated Film Association (ASIFA-Hollywood) presents the Winsor McCay Award in recognition of an individual’s career contributions to the art of animation. The 2024 winner is filmmaker and producer Marcy Page, who spent many years at the National Film Board.

Hispaniola Mon Amour

Hispaniola Mon Amour

With Hispaniola, a feature doc currently in production, filmmaker Michèle Stephenson returns to the land of her birth to document the fallout of a 2013 ruling by the Dominican courts that retroactively strips citizenship rights from any Haitian-Dominican born after 1929.

Canada at 150: Classic Photo Reportage Goes Interactive

Canada at 150: Classic Photo Reportage Goes Interactive

The classic art of photo reportage gets a new lease on life in Canada at 150 – an interactive production that’s among a number of anniversary projects currently in the...

The Apology Revisits Issue of WWII Sexual Slavery

The Apology Revisits Issue of WWII Sexual Slavery

Historians generally refer to them as “the comfort women,” but the term hardly begins to describe the horror they endured. Tiffany Hsiung has come to think of them as “the...

Fort Mac Dreamin’

Fort Mac Dreamin’

The recent dramatic drop in world oil prices may be playing havoc with economic forecasts, but it has upped the creative stakes in Limit is the Sky, a feature doc...

Debris: Disaster Movie as Art

Debris: Disaster Movie as Art

Beachcombing is both a job and a passion for Pete Clarkson. As a park worker on the wild and beautiful outer coast of Vancouver Island, he’s been picking up marine debris...

“Revenge is a Dead End”

“Revenge is a Dead End”

With Grassroots in Drylands, a new feature doc from Quebec-Atlantic Studio, Helene Klodawsky goes to the Middle East — and returns with a welcome message of hope. The project brings...

Introducing the NFB’s Atlantic-Quebec Studio…

Introducing the NFB’s Atlantic-Quebec Studio…

Find out how the NFB's Atlantic-Quebec Studio is exactly like chocolate bark.

Animation Open House at the NFB studio in Montreal on October 25

oehttp://www.nfb.ca/film/my_grandmother_ironed_the_king_shirts/ On Monday, October 25, the NFB will be hosting an Animation Open House. From 1 pm to 5 pm, the studio will open its doors to the public at...