Rest in Peace, Bad News Brown
On February 11, 2011, Montreal musician, mentor and father Bad News Brown (born Paul Frappier) was found dead in an industrial area near the Lachine Canal. He was 33 years...
NFB Films at Rendez-vous de la Francophonie 2011
150 screenings in 62 cities across Canada! Now that’s a full slate of films. From March 4 to 20, the National Film Board is participating in the Rendez-vous de la...
Ryan Larkin doc Ryan's Renaissance to air on Bravo! as part of Great Canadian Bios series
Equal parts tragedy and triumph, Ryan Larkin‘s life story is the subject of a documentary titled Ryan’s Renaissance premiering tomorrow on Bravo! as part of the Great Canadians Bios biography series....
Ryan Larkin doc Ryan’s Renaissance to air on Bravo! as part of Great Canadian Bios series
Equal parts tragedy and triumph, Ryan Larkin‘s life story is the subject of a documentary titled Ryan’s Renaissance premiering tomorrow on Bravo! as part of the Great Canadians Bios biography series....
Friday staff pick: Coast to Coast
Hi, I’m Jean-François Côté, project manager and scrum master for Internet development here at the NFB. Here are my suggestion of films to watch on NFB.ca; 2 very different films...
Quilt fever
I’ve said it before, but one of my favourite things about my job is seeing what people do with our films once we put them online. Last week, the web...
Hothouse 7: Call for submissions
One of the nice things about the NFB is that we don’t only make films with established filmmakers, we also help new ones get started. A prime example of this...
Anita Lebeau’s Big Drive to screen in Winnipeg and Vancouver this spring
When I was a kid and my parents would take us on road trips to visit with my cousins, down in the States, my brother and I would always get...
Friday staff pick: Cry of the Wild
oehttp://www.nfb.ca/film/cry_of_the_wild/ I saw Cry of the Wild as a teenager in the early 1970s at a movie theatre in Montreal. The film was talked about everywhere. There were TV ,...
Welcome to Pine Point: An interview with The Goggles
Some towns thrive and some towns fall to ruin, but a town that gets flattened to the ground and erased from the map altogether? That’s both highly unusual and exactly...
The Astral Media Scholarship Program is giving money to emerging filmmakers – do you qualify?
The Astral Media Scholarship Program has put out it’s call for applications. The program has 3 arms through which they support emerging-level filmmakers in Quebec and British Columbia: The Doc...
Friday Staff Pick: My Grandmother Ironed the King’s Shirts
oehttp://www.nfb.ca/film/my_grandmother_ironed_the_king_shirts Oscar season is upon us, and while we don’t have any films in the running this year, we do have a few statues under our belt. In fact, the...