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Posts Tagged “nfb.ca”
Speak Up! A New Thematic Spotlight to Explore on NFB.ca
This month, NFB.ca is inviting you to Speak Up! Discover our special programming celebrating the power of the public voice.
The NFB Web Team’s Top 10 Films of 2011
Part of our daily jobs – we the NFB’s web team – is to make the Film Board’s collection accessible to people online. To this effect, we publish every week...
NFB.ca in your classroom? Let us show you how!
Remember when NFB projectionists used to travel from church basement to church basement, showing NFB films and newsreels? Well, we’re back, but we won’t be bringing film strips this time....
Download NFB films? Now you can!
This post is a translation. Find the French original here. Until now, you could only watch NFB.ca films via streaming. However, over the past few months, my web team colleagues...
2 new ways to explore our online film collection
One thing I learned from working (and pretty much living) online is that having tons of great content is next to useless if people can’t easily find what they want...
Tom Perlmutter on accessibility, new forms of storytelling and risk-taking
Earlier this month, NFB President Tom Perlmutter gave an interview to IT in Canada‘s Dave Chapelle. In a piece fittingly titled, NFB embraces technology to tell Canadian stories, Perlmutter discusses...
Grain Elevator fervour
oehttp://www.nfb.ca/film/grain_elevator/ Part of my job involves putting films online. There’s a calendar (prepared by our Collection analysts) that I consult every week. It tells me what films are supposed to...
17 NFB nominations for the 25th Annual Gemini Awards
The Academy of Canadian Cinema & Television recently announced its nominations for the 25th Annual Gemini Awards and the NFB obtained a whopping 17 nominations. Yippee! Nine distinct productions made...
What goes into clearing rights for streaming films on NFB.ca
Although I have been part of the NFB web team since last Christmas, I recently realized I was still pretty hazy about the whole notion of internet rights. Why are...
Over 5 Million Plays on NFB.ca
The vast majority of plays to date have been from Canada.
Beta site is live – Please let us know what you think…
Version 2.0 of the NFB website is now live. We’d love it if you could have a look at it and send us your feedback. For the user, the biggest...