A coffee shop chat with filmmaker Paul Cowan
Paul Cowan is a Canadian filmmaker who spent many years working at the NFB. He retired from the Film Board in 2009, after directing Paris 1919, a film adaptation of...
39th edition of Festival du nouveau cinéma opens in Montreal Oct. 13
The Festival du nouveau cinéma (FNC) opens in Montreal next Wednesday, October 13. Dedicated to disseminating and developing new trends in the field of cinema and new media, the FNC...
3 NFB films presented at imagineNATIVE
oehttp://www.nfb.ca/film/vistas_button_blanket/ We are pleased to announce that 3 of our productions have been selected for presentation at the 11th imagineNATIVE Film + Media Arts Festival. Based in Toronto, imagineNATIVE is...
The NFB Tour continues in Ontario on October 26
oehttp://gdp.nfb.ca/photo-essay/1338/toughing-it-out-in-timmins The above film, Toughing it out in Timmins, is a photo essay from the GDP project about the forestry industry in Timmins. *** Tom Perlmutter, head of the NFB,...
The NFB hits the road – and is coming to a city near you!
oehttp://www.nfb.ca/film/nfb-tour Tom Perlmutter, the head of the NFB, is heading out on a cross-Canada tour. The tour is meant to allow him, and the NFB, to connect with Canadians. He’ll...
Racing Thoughts in theatres for Mental Illness Awareness Week
oehttp://www.nfb.ca/film/racing_thoughts_trailer/ Louiselle Noël’s new film, Racing Thoughts is being screened in cities across Canada this week in conjunction with Mental Illness Awareness Week (October 3-9, 2010). In the film, Louiselle...
Royal Journey: The National Film Board’s first major hit
The story behind the making of Royal Journey, the NFB's first major box office hit.
Grain Elevator fervour
oehttp://www.nfb.ca/film/grain_elevator/ Part of my job involves putting films online. There’s a calendar (prepared by our Collection analysts) that I consult every week. It tells me what films are supposed to...
Behind the scenes: Hothouse 6
oehttp://www.onf.ca/film/hothouse_6_behind_the_scenes/ A while back I published a series of interviews with this year’s 6 Hothouse participants. As much as I believe in the power of words to evoke, I was...
7 films at the Vancouver International Film Festival
oehttp://www.nfb.ca/film/mighty_jerome_8/ This year, the NFB has 7 films showing at the Vancouver International Film Festival (VIFF) – 4 features and 3 shorts, including the world premiere of Charles Officer’s (Nurse.Fighter.Boy)...
How to finance your short film
oehttp://www.nfb.ca/film/hothouse_6_financing/ Back in June, we held a session at our Montreal headquarters on How to Finance Your Short Film as part of the Hothouse 6 emerging filmmaker program. It was...
Introducing Test Tube, NFB’s new interactive project featuring David Suzuki
The NFB recently launched Test Tube, a thought-provoking interactive project featuring David Suzuki. To better understand the project, its goals and its achievements we interviewed Loc Dao, Creative Technologist on...