Hothouse 7: Working at the Headquarters
The following is a guest post by Eva Cvijanovic. So I still have a night job once or twice a week, and this week it was really slow, so I...
Friday staff pick: For Angela
Today’s Friday staff pick comes from our brilliant librarian, Katherine Kasirer. *** When I was asked to suggest a staff pick of the week from the vast NFB.ca collection available online,...
Rodney King tapes, highrises and revolutions
The following is a guest post from Katerina Cizek, who blogs regularly for her project Highrise. You can read her other posts here. The above photo is a still from...
Hothouse 7: Yep, Tomatoes.
The following is a guest post by Andrew Hicks. I got up from my computer to escape some stereoscopic animation tests and made my way to the grocery store… Everywhere...
The marvels of technology: Short films shot on cell phones
On Monday, Mashable ran a piece called 7 Superb Short Films Shot With Cellphones. The films were astounding. I mean, I have an iPhone 4 so I’m aware of the...
Hothouse 7: Collecting
The following is a guest post by Aimée van Drimmelen as part of the Hothouse Program. *** I figured the most effective way to animate my background and several other...
6 NFB films selected for Hot Docs 2011
Hot Docs, America’s largest documentary festival, selected and announced the 2011 line-up last week. Some 200 films garnered the attention of the festival’s programmers and the NFB will make a...
Hothouse 7: FedEx Man
The following is a guest post by Candace Couse. Here is a photo of my whiteboard. It is a useful tool but it sometimes lulls me into a false sense of...
Hothouse 7: Cozimo
The following is a guest post by Eva Cvijanovic. Monday, March 21, we’re on a 6-way conversation on Skype, and on Cozimo (for the first time collectively), a really useful...
The Enduring Wilderness and Canada’s National Parks
Two weeks ago, we published a guest post by Dr. Claire Campbell about our film The Enduring Wilderness. It was part 1 of a 3-part series about Canada’s national parks...
Richard Leacock, pioneer of documentary film, dies at 89
89-year-old documentary filmmaker Richard Leacock died this past Wednesday at his home in Paris. Born in London, Leacock wrote, directed, filmed and edited a 10-minute film called Canary Island Bananas...
Hothouse 7: Remote Access
The following is a guest post by Tabitha Fisher. In the seventh edition of Hothouse the filmmakers are working on their projects from home, which poses the special challenge of...