CFC Features: finance, market and produce your feature film
There are different ways to fund a feature film in this day and age and one you should consider if you are Canadian and have the first draft of a...
Hothouse 7: The Last Picnic (Kind Of)
The following is a guest post by Jason Lee. The Hothousers finally convened at the National Film Board of Canada in Montreal yesterday to celebrate and showcase their newly finished...
Friday staff pick: I Want a Dog
Wouldn’t you love just 10 more minutes to finish preparing supper uninterrupted? Since I started working at the NFB a few months ago, I’ve been rediscovering the huge range of...
Hothouse7: The Final Countdown.
The following is a guest post by Andrew Hicks. We’re at the end of the homestretch! Final sound mixes are mixing and 3D credits are, umm well… being fixed to...
Power to the Pixel’s Pixel Market now open for applications
If you’re an international producer with a strong track record and have a cross-media project at an advanced stage of development, The Pixel Market is your chance to win £6,000...
YUL 871: A Feature Film for the 1960s
Starting with the release of Drylanders in 1963, both the English and French programs at the National Film Board began to produce modestly priced feature films for the nation’s cinema...
9 films to celebrate Parks Canada’s centennial
Back when I was a young and brazen freelance writer (i.e. 3 years ago), I spent an entire summer travelling across Canada writing a blog for the Canadian Tourism Commission....
David Blackwood retrospective at the Art Gallery of Ontario
Last week, my colleague Julie had lunch with Matt Forsythe, a guy who used to be part of our web team before flying the coop to be an awesome illustrator...
DOXA Connexions: Barriers
This post was written by one of the young women participating in the 2011 Kris Anderson DOXA Youth Connexions Forum, as part of the DOXA Documentary Film Festival. “Connexions” is...
imagineNATIVE 2011: Call for Submissions
imagineNATIVE is an “international Festival that celebrates the latest works by Indigenous peoples at the forefront of innovation in film, video, radio and new media”. This year marks its 12th...
NFB films to screen at Dreamspeakers Film Festival in Edmonton
Dreamspeakers is a film festival based in Edmonton, Alberta, showcasing films made by Aboriginal filmmakers from around the globe. This year’s edition runs June 1-4. The NFB will be presenting...
Hothouse7: RED or BLUE?
The following is a guest post by Eva Cvijanovic. I’ve been absent from the blogging world for a while, I was busy, you know, trying to finish my film on...