Montreal in the 60s set to the music of Pink Floyd
Our designer, Mivil Deschênes, stumbled upon this little gem on a blog called Montreal State of Mind. It’s a mash up of old NFB archival material set to the music...
4 things about Hothouse animator Kiarra Albina
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...
The NFB and World Fairs, pt. 2: Osaka and Expo 70
oehttp://www.nfb.ca/film/the_city_osaka/ This is the second of a 4-part series documenting the NFB’s involvement with World Fairs, from Montreal to Shanghai. It was written by Marc St-Pierre, our French Collection analyst....
4 things about Hothouse animator Megan Turnbull
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...
4 things about Hothouse animator Fred Casia
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...
The NFB and World Fairs, pt. 1: Montreal and Expo 67
oehttp://www.nfb.ca/film/In_the_Labyrinth/ This is the first of a 4-part series documenting the NFB’s involvement with World Fairs, from Montreal to Shanghai. It was written by Marc St-Pierre, our French Collection analyst....
The NFB Films iPad app is now available!
Drum roll, please…. The NFB Films iPad app is now available through iTunes. With this app, you can watch over 1000 movies – documentaries, animations and feature films – free...
The Devil at Your Heels: Is this for real?
oehttp://www.nfb.ca/film/devil_at_your_heels/ How can I best describe The Devil at Your Heels? Truth is stranger than fiction? The eccentric shall inherit the earth? Build it and they will come? No, I...
3 more films from the DOXA Connexions Youth Forum
Following up on yesterday’s post, here are the 3 remaining films from the 2010 DOXA Youth Connexions Forum: Love Life Josephine Anderson is 24 years old, holds a B.A. in...
Making air waves: Aboriginal filmmaker Dennis Allen on new radio-inspired doc CBQM
Yesterday was National Aboriginal Day, and to mark the occasion NFB.ca launched CBQM, Dennis Allen’s new feature length documentary: oehttp://www.nfb.ca/film/cbqm A charming, honest tribute to volunteer-run radio station CBQM (690...
3 films from the 2010 DOXA Connexions Youth Forum
A few weeks back, we wrote about the DOXA Connexions Youth Forum with a promise to follow up when the participants’ films were completed. Well! The films are now all...
Montrealers! Join us on June 30 for a free session on Financing Your Short Film!
On June 30, up here at the NFB in Montreal, we’ll be hosting the last knowledge-sharing event of Hothouse 6. It’s a panel we’re calling “Financing Your Short Film!”, because yes, it is possible to finance short films in Canada...