Get your freak on, Fantasia is here
Freaks and geeks take note, the event Quentin Tarantino once called “the most important and prestigious genre film festival on this continent” is kicking off tomorrow. The Fantasia International Film...
Welcome to God’s Lake Narrows
This is a guest post by Gisèle Gordon, a multimedia artist, writer and programmer (Hot Docs, imagineNATIVE) based in Toronto. In 1996 she co-founded the film production company Urban Nation...
Satellites of the Sun: The Wonders of Earth and Space
What are 1685 Toro and 3753 Cruithne?
Read this post to find out.
Celebrate Canada Day with the NFB
Tomorrow is Canada Day (yay!) and the NFB has a few ideas to celebrate this wonderful place we call home. The first is a Canada Day film selection we put...
The Besnard Lakes to release EP based on Welcome to Pine Point score
Montreal husband-and-wife indie-rock duo The Besnard Lakes announced they will soon release a 12-inch vinyl titled You Lived in the City based on their score for the interactive projet/web doc/”liquid...
NFB wins Award for Excellence in Interactive Programming
Most people know us for our films, but the NFB is increasingly gaining attention for its interactive productions. At the Banff World Media Festival earlier this month, the NFB received...
John Law and the Mississippi Bubble: The Madness of Crowds
When most people think about Richard Condie’s films, his classic Oscar-nominated short The Big Snit (1985) immediately springs to mind. While I agree that it is brilliant, I prefer his...
Director Narcisse Blood introduces new Pete Standing Alone documentary
Narcisse Blood is a Blood Indian teacher and filmmaker working and living in Southern Alberta. He recently directed Round Up, a documentary about Pete Standing Alone, a remarkable man who...
Welcome to Pine Point wins 2 Webby Awards
On Monday, The Goggles (Mike Simons and Paul Shoebridge) were named double Webby Award winners for Welcome to Pine Point, their first-ever interactive web documentary. The Vancouver creative duo received...
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...
NFB Classics: Circle of the Sun
I’m in the middle of transcribing notes from an interview I did last week with Narcisse Blood. Narcisse is a filmmaker and educator living in Southwestern Alberta. He recently directed...
Mighty Jerome to air on CBC Television this Saturday June 18
After screening at Hot Docs and other festivals this spring, Mighty Jerome, a doc about the little-known story of one of Canada’s greatest sprinters, airs on CBC television this Saturday...