Enter the Celebrate Parks video contest
What’s your favourite Canadian national park? I got several. This is a photo I took in one of them last summer – Georgian Bay Islands National Park, on Ontario’s Lake...
Three NFB films selected at TIFF
The summer is drawing to a close and that means the Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF) is just around the corner. One of the world’s most happening film festivals (film critic Roger...
Filmmaker Ann Marie Fleming on mentoring Hothouse animators
Hothouse is a 12-week paid apprenticeship program for emerging filmmakers that has been taking place in the NFB’s Montreal Animation Studio since 2003. Each year, a different filmmaker is chosen...
Tulku director Gesar Mukpo on first-person filmmaking and reincarnation
Tulku is a full-length NFB documentary that tells the story of Western tulkus, young people born in modern Western cultures who were recognized, when they were children, as reincarnations of...
Live Tweeting event w/director Gesar Mukpo during the CBC broadcast of Tulku on Aug. 11 at 10 pm ET
oehttp://www.nfb.ca/film/tulku_trailer On Wednesday, August 11 at 10 pm, Am I Reincarnated? Tulku will air on the CBC News Network as part of The Passionate Eye. In association with the broadcast,...
Andrea Dorfman on How To Be Alone
Earlier this week, an interesting video called How To Be Alone popped up in my Facebook feed. I loved it instantly and recognized something familiar about the style of animation....
Pixar holds masterclass in Vancouver, Sept. 24 – 25, 2010
On September 24 & 25, vanarts will be presenting a Masterclass in Animation and Story Development, led by story artist Matthew Luhn and animator Andrew Gordon, both from Pixar Animation...
6 films in competition at the Hiroshima International Animation Film Festival
This year, we’ve got 6 films in competition at the Hiroshima Animation Film Festival, which takes place from August 7 – 11. As an added bonus, Theodore Ushev (Lipsett Diaries,...
One Day On Earth: Help Document the World’s Story on 10/10/10
If you only had one day to document the world, what story would you tell? This is the question the One Day on Earth project would like you to ponder...
Stephen Low’s Ultimate Wave Tahiti 3D opens in IMAX theatres today
The apple, the saying goes, doesn’t fall far from the tree. Stephen Low, one of legendary NFB filmmaker and producer Colin Low‘s three sons, is presenting his own latest film...
Pitch your cross-media project for a chance to win the ARTE Pixel Pitch Prize
This October, The Pixel Market is hosting a 2-day marketplace in London, England and will showcase 20 of the best international cross-media projects to financiers and decision-makers from across the...
4 things about Hothouse animator Zane Kozak
This post is part of a series of interviews with this year’s Hothouse participants. Created in 2003, Hothouse is a 12-week paid apprenticeship program for emerging filmmakers that takes place...