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...
Waterwalker: Bill Mason’s Masterpiece
I have viewed over 7,000 NFB films as part of my work. People often ask me what my favourite film is and I never hesitate to answer Bill Mason’s ode...
Filming war: an interview with producer Jacques Turgeon
*This post is a translation. Read the original French post here. In March an NFB team travelled to Afghanistan to document daily life as experienced by soldiers of the 22e...
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...
70 Years of Animation, Part 2 – Norman McLaren
*This post is a translation from French. You can see the original post here. In Part One, I mentioned that while the NFB initially lacked an animation department, by signing...
70 Years of Animation, Part 1 – When Animation Marches Off to War
*This post is a translation from French. You can see the original post here. Since September 2011, the National Film Board of Canada and the Aéroports de Montréal are presenting...
Enjoy daily holiday specials on NFB.ca this December
From December 1, right up until Christmas Day, we will be offering specials on a select number of our download to own titles. These films will be featured on the...
Stories from the world’s largest Inuit film collection launch, pt. 3
Recently, on a beautiful fall evening in Ottawa, hundreds of people from across the country gathered at the National Art Gallery for the launch of Unikkausivut: Sharing Our Stories. We’d...
Stories from the world’s largest Inuit film collection launch, pt. 2
Recently, on a beautiful fall evening in Ottawa, hundreds of people from across the country gathered at the National Art Gallery for the launch of Unikkausivut: Sharing Our Stories. We’d...
5 (quick) tips for making music for animation
During Get Animated!, our yearly animation bonanza, composer extraordinaire Luigi Allemano gave a workshop called Making Music for Animation at the Mediathèque in Toronto. Luigi being Luigi (read awesome), he...
Stories from the world’s largest Inuit film collection launch, pt. 1
Recently, on a beautiful fall evening in Ottawa, hundreds of people from across the country gathered at the National Art Gallery for the launch of Unikkausivut: Sharing Our Stories. We’d...
Unikkausivut – Sharing Our Stories launches in Kuujjuaq, Nunavik
On Tuesday Nov. 8, before dawn, we left Iqaluit for Kuujjuaq by way of an Air Inuit charter flight. In the North, charters mean “fun-sized” propeller planes, and our ride,...