Buster Keaton rides the rails in Canada
The production of The Railrodder starring Buster Keaton, Hollywood silent film icon.
3 animated shorts heading to Sundance
Cordell Barker, Bruce Alcock and David Coquard-Dassault head to the 2010 Sundance Film Festival with their animated shorts.
The NFB wins at the Canadian New Media Awards
The NFB was honoured this week with two awards at the Canadian New Media Awards which celebrates accomplishments of individuals and companies in the Canadian digital media industry. The NFB...
How to sell your content on the Web
The following is a guest post by Marie-France Côté. While at IDFA, I attended a WDE (world doc exchange) seminar with Wendy Bernfeld of Rights Stuff. Raised in Montreal but...
Join our in-house film experts as they present 2 of their NFB favourites
Albert Ohayon and Marc St-Pierre, our two in-house film experts, will be presenting the NFB archives and 2 of their favourite films (The Railrodder and This is Not Einstein) at...
Paying tribute to Gilles Carle, legendary Quebec film director
Gilles Carle passed away over the weekend. To many people outside the French-speaking population of Quebec, the name might not ring any bells. But it should. Gilles Carle was an...
Past NFB Heads Discuss the Purpose of the NFB
A really great and candid short film that interviews past Government Film Commissioners about what the NFB means to them. What is a Government Film Commissioner? From Wikipedia: As stipulated...
From documentary to fiction: The story behind the NFB’s first feature film
The genesis and production of the NFB's first feature film.
7 Tips for Online Film Distribution from Peter Broderick
Producer Marie-France Cote interviews digital distribution guru Peter Broderick at IDFA.
NFB.ca listed in Top 50 Web Designs
The designers at Web50.ca have included NFB.ca in their Top 50 Canadian web designs. We’ve always loved site design, so it’s nice to be recognized by the community like this....
Huffington Post’s Top 10 New Radical Gifts features NFB box set
Julie Moulden of the Huffington Post picks the NFB box set, Filmmaker-in-Residence, as one of her Top 10 New Radical Gifts.
Top 10 tips for innovative entrepreneurs from Guy Kawasaki
On Thursday night, I was lucky enough to catch Guy Kawasaki giving the keynote address at Challenge Your World here in Montreal. The subject of his speech was innovation and...