3 New NFB Webdocs to Discover
NFB/interactive – the National Film Board of Canada’s interactive productions arm – is not the type to rest on its laurels. Mere moments after winning 2 (two!) 2012 Webby Awards...
Download and Own Tulku, Gesar Mukpo’s Doc on Reincarnation in the New World
Download and own Tulku, Gesar Mukpo's feature doc about young people being recognized as the reincarnation of great Tibetan Buddhist masters.
Celebrating 65 Years of Cannes
The 2012 Cannes Film Festival is here. The high mass of cinema, which celebrates its 65th edition this year, opens Wednesday night with Wes Anderson’s Moonrise Kingdom, the story of...
Animator Jesse Gouchey on SANDDE and Stereoscopic Spray Painting
This is a guest post by Jesse Gouchey, one of 6 animators participating in this year’s Hothouse program, the NFB’s 12-week paid apprenticeship for emerging filmmakers. Where is it saved?...
Animator Rosa Aiello on Sand and Surrender
This is a guest post by Rosa Aiello, one of 6 animators participating in this year’s Hothouse program, the NFB’s 12-week paid apprenticeship for emerging filmmakers. Notes for a blog...
A Trip Down Memory Lane: A Phantasmagoria of the 20th Century Compressed by Arthur Lipsett
May 13th marks the 76th anniversary of the birth of experimental filmmaker Arthur Lipsett. I thought it appropriate to talk about his films and why they have become such cult...
Animator David Barlow-Krelina on Getting 3D Particle Effects To Do What You Want Them To
This is a guest post by David Barlow-Krelina, one of 6 animators participating in this year’s Hothouse program, the NFB’s 12-week paid apprenticeship for emerging filmmakers. It’s been an intense...
Farewell to the King of All Wild Things
This is a guest blog post written by NFB animation producer, Marcy Page. Marcy, along with Spike Jonze and Vince Landay, produced Higglety Pigglety Pop! Or There Must be More...
Animator Susan Wolf on After Effects, Fluffy Clouds and Obsessive Tendencies
This is a guest post by Susan Wolf, one of 6 animators participating in this year’s Hothouse program, the NFB’s 12-week paid apprenticeship for emerging filmmakers. Today, I started animating...
REW-FFWD: Remembering Denis Villeneuve’s 1994 Jamaican Psychodrama
Watch REW-FFWD (1994), Oscar-nominated filmmaker Denis Villeneuve's "psychodrama" about a photographer stranded in Trench Town (Jamaica).
Animator Wen Zhang on Connecting Music and Motion and Building Software from Scratch
This is a guest post by Wen Zhang, one of 6 animators participating in this year’s Hothouse program, the NFB’s 12-week paid apprenticeship for emerging filmmakers. On paper, my job...
Animator Carrie Mombourquette on Filmmaking as Child Rearing (and Polar Bears)
This is a guest post by Carrie Mombourquette, one of 6 animators participating in this year’s Hothouse program, the NFB’s 12-week paid apprenticeship for emerging filmmakers. Making a film is...