World premiere of Tying Your Own Shoes!!!! Shira Avni blogs from the DOK Leipzig festival in Germany.
Here’s what we’ve got cooking at the Calgary International Film Festival Check out all the trailers for the films we’ve got playing at the 2009 Calgary International Film Festival. Documentary Features CBQM (Dennis Allen) 66:36 min oehttp://www.nfb.ca/film/cbqm_radio_trailer/ INVISIBLE CITY (Hubert Davis)...
Land of the Heads premieres at Montreal World Film Festival We’ve got 5 world premieres at the Montreal World Film Festival (WFF) this year, one of which is Cédric Louis and Claude Barras’ Land of the Heads. I’ve yet to...
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.
Embedding NFB video on your WordPress Blog I’ve come across a lot of bloggers who are writing about our new online Screening Room but are unable to embed NFB films on their sites. Instead of using a...
Paris 1919 heads to Hot Docs Director Paul Cowan talks about the making of Paris 1919 as the films heads to Hot Docs 2009.
RiP! A Remix Manifesto opens theatrically in Canada Hot off the heels of a killer festival run, Brett Gaylor’s film RiP! A Remix Manifesto, about copyright and content creation in the digital age, will open theatrically in select...
The Strangest Dream goes on tour Starting on March 4, Eric Bednarski’s documentary The Strangest Dream begins its national tour, showing in select theatres across Canada until April 10. The film is about Nobel Peace Prize-winning...
Heaven on Earth: DVD release and interview with director Heaven on Earth has been hugely popular on this site since it premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival last September. Centring around Chand, a young Indian bride who emigrates...
RiP: A Remix Manifesto screens at Rendez-vous du cinéma québécois Festival favourite RiP: A Remix Manifesto will screen at this year’s Rendez-vous du cinéma québécois as part of a workshop/panel discussion. RiP explores the issues of intellectual property in the...
The Word on the Street – Six NFB Films Featured in the Press and Online The new year is off to a great start, with several NFB productions being talked about in the press and online. Guy Dixon of The Globe and Mail wrote a...