The NFB at Sundance
If I could attend only one film festival in my life, it would have to be Sundance in the United States. The annual event takes place in the mountain resort...
7 documentary tweeters to follow on Twitter
oehttp://www.nfb.ca/hd/rip_a_remix_manifesto/ One of our followers on Twitter asked me the other day who I’d recommend he follow for interesting tweets on the doc world. As I sent off my response,...
Friday Film Staff Pick: Sleeping Betty
oehttp://www.nfb.ca/film/sleeping_betty This is a guest post from Kate Ruscito, a beloved member of the web team. I don’t know about you, but on Friday, after a long workweek, I’m exhausted....
How to Build an Igloo(fest)
oehttp://www.nfb.ca/film/How_to_Build_an_Igloo In Canada, we get winter. This means two things. It means a) we get it in the sense that it happens here. It also means b) we get it...
Animator Dale Hayward directs intro video for Cirque du Soleil’s Safewalls project
oehttp://vimeo.com/18473436 I might already have told you I’m all about young, talented people doing well for themselves. A person who doesn’t disappoint in this department is ex-Hothouser and sometime NFB...
Cordell Barker on animating the documentary Cat Crazed
Cordell Barker (Runaway, The Cat Came Back) recently did some animation for a new documentary by Bountiful Films entitled Cat Crazed. After posting the trailer for the film on our...
2010 Staff Picks: An unconventional Top 10
We’ve been posting a lot of lists lately, from ASIFA’s best in animation to TIFF’s Canada’s Top Ten. Feeling all in the spirit, we decided to share our own list....
One-woman film crew Dianne Whelan talks about shooting on Everest and in the Canadian Arctic
I told you earlier this week I’d try to get Dianne Whelan on the phone to pick her brains about making This Land, her great Arctic documentary, and talk about...
TIFF announces Canada’s Top Ten of 2010
Because it’s the end of the year and because we love lists at the NFB, I wanted to tell to you about this year’s Top 10 Canadian Films. Put together...
50 films for ASIFA’s 50th anniversary
This blog post was translated from French. ASIFA (International Animated Film Association) is celebrating its 50th anniversary this year. To celebrate the organization founded half a century ago by Norman...
This Land: a film and an interactive project to explore
oehttp://www.nfb.ca/film/this_land Today’s featured film on NFB.ca is This Land. Because I happen to like the Arctic a lot (both in image and in person), I thought I’d encourage you to...
10 things to keep in mind for producing cross-platform media
Rob McLaughlin, executive producer of our interactive studio, has put together a list of 10 things to remember when looking to produce cross-platform media. Here they are: Pick your spot...