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NFB Offers Animated Valentine Online with ‘I Like Girls’

To mark Valentine’s Day, the National Film Board of Canada is sharing the love with Diane Obomsawin’s award-winning animated film I Like Girls (J’Aime...

Oscar-Winning Canadian Animator Grant Munro Dies Age 94

Grant Munro, an animator and actor who starred in Norman McLaren's 1953 Best Short Film Oscar-winning pixilation Cold War parable Neighbors (Voisins) and co-directed...

Sundance Shorts Lineup Includes NFB Faves, New Hertzfeldt

Park City, Utah’s influential and prestigious Sundance Film Festival has revealed the Shorts, Indie Episodic and Special Events selections for the 2018 edition (Jan....

45th Annual Annie Awards Nominations Announced

The International Animated Film Society (ASIFA-Hollywood) announced nominations Monday for its 45th Annual Annie Awards recognizing the year's best in the field of animation....

Michèle Cournoyer Is 1st Female Animator to Win Prix Albert-Tessier

The National Film Board of Canada congratulations animation filmmaker and frequent NFB collaborator Michèle Cournoyer on winning the 2017 Prix Albert-Tessier, making her the...

First Pond Saddles Up NFB Feature ‘Window Horses’

First Pond Entertainment -- a film sales and distribution company concentrating on issue-driven narratives centering underrepresented communities -- has picked up US rights to...

TIFF Shorts Program Features 3 NFB Animations

The National Film Board of Canada will have its animation studio projects well represented at the Toronto International Film Festival (taking place Sept. 7-17),...

NFB Short ‘Skin for Skin’ Gets Fantasia Fest World Premiere

Neo-Gothic mixed technique animated short Skin for Skin -- directed by Calgary filmmakers Carol Beecher and Kevin D. A. Kurytnik, produced by the National...

NFB Forms 3-Year Plan to Uplift Indigenous Peoples

The National Film Board of Canada has unveiled a three-year plan and series of commitments shaped by the work and recommendations of the Truth...

VIEW Conference Names First 2017 Speakers

Registration is now open for the 2017 VIEW Conference (www.viewconference.it) -- Italy's premiere computer graphics, digital media and games confab. The 18th edition will...

NFB Shoots for Gender Parity of Key Creatives by 2020

Following the National Film Board of Canada’s announcement last year that it had set a goal to have 50% of its productions directed by...

Blind Vaysha

Blind Vaysha Jury Award – Short Film (8:14, Theodore Ushev, Canada) Who Made It? Theodore Ushev was born in Kyustendil, Bulgaria, and first made a name for...

NFB Closes Its First Cuban TV Deal

The National Film Board of Canada has secured its first television license deal in Cuba, which will see a slate of nine Canadian films...

NFB Feature ‘Window Horses’ Sets US Premiere for Santa Barbara

Vancouver-based filmmaker Ann Marie Fleming's acclaimed film Window Horses: The Poetic Persian Epiphany of Rosie Ming (from Stickgirl Productions and the National Film Board...

Oscar Nomination Reactions: The Class of 2017 Checks In

The nominees are in! Read what the finalist filmmakers have to say about being recognized by the Academy, below. The 89th Oscars will take...

Reminder & Roundup: Oscar Nomination Voting Opens Jan. 5

New year, new Academy Awards race! Voting for Oscar nominations opens Thursday, January 5 for Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences members, to...

10 Animated Shorts Advance in Oscar Race

The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences has narrowed down the initial 69 qualifying films to a list of 10 animated shorts that...

NFB VR Works Slated for POP 03 in Toronto

The National Film Board of Canada is bringing together a slate of six virtual reality and immersive media productions for Toronto's POP 03 installation,...

NFB VR Works Slated for POP 03 in Toronto

The National Film Board of Canada is bringing together a slate of six virtual reality and immersive media productions for Toronto’s POP 03 installation,...

Rene Bourdages Named NFB Director General

Claude Joli-Coeur, Government Film Commissioner and Chairperson of the National Film Board of Canada, announced the appointment of René Bourdages as the NFB's Director...
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