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- NFB nominated for 2 Canadian New Media Awards 9:00am Nov 9
- Tying Your Own Shoes wins Golden Dove Award! 7:08am Nov 4
- World premiere of Tying Your Own Shoes!!!! 1:54pm Nov 2
Events
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- Free Animation Master Class wi...
Plaza Theatre
Saturday, November 7 at 4:00pm - Free Animation Master Class wi...
The Company House
Sunday, November 1 at 2:00pm - Free Animation Master Class wi...
VanCity Theatre
Wednesday, October 28 at 7:30pm - Free Animation Master Class wi...
Pacific Cinematheque
Tuesday, October 27 at 7:30pm - Free Animation Master Class wi...
Winnipeg Film Group Cinematheque
Tuesday, October 27 at 7:00pm - Free Animation Master Class wi...
The Artery
Saturday, October 24 at 3:00pm - Win a Norman McLaren Box Set w...
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Friday, February 6 at 4:00pm - NFB.ca Launches its New Nation...
online
Wednesday, January 21 at 1:00pm - Win 2 Tickets to see The Memor...
Cinéma Parrallèle (Complex Ex-Centris)
Monday, November 3 at 1:30pm
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Lethbridge: Cinema Politica -
LPIRG (Lethbridge Public Interest Research Group) invites you to a screening of the film...
“Bevel Up: Drugs, Users, and Outreach Nursing”
Tuesday, November 24 at 7:00pm
Source: www.uleth.ca
NFB How about a little change of scenery? Check out Georges Schwizgebel's Jeu for a little mind-bending animation.
Source: www.nfb.ca
In this animated short, the filmmaker sets the viewer down in a landscape whose scenery constantly morphs and mutates. This helter-skelter world evokes the chaos of modern life.
A bunch of NFB and NFB co-produced sites were nominated for Canadian New Media Awards last week...
NFB How about a burger with the works? Sound good? Check out the second installment in Jay and Gino's story from the GDP project.
Source: gdp.nfb.ca
Gino’s out front, renovating the dining room. Jay’s in the kitchen, testing the new menu. It’s makeover time – and the count-down to opening night has begun.
NFB Open the lines of communication with this clever little conversation starter.
Source: www.nfb.ca
In this animated short, one man attempts to bring about changes in his community through participation with fellow citizens and local government.
NFB "If this is the way it feels... being sober sucks."
Source: playing-it-safe.nfb.ca
Lacey was born in Prince George, BC. She has been on the street on and off since she was 11 and came to Vancouer in the winter of 2000. She was the youngest squatter at the Woodwards squat 2002-2003. Since ...
NFB Montreal: Kat Cizek's The Bicycle is playing before the doc, Bullshit, at Cinema Politica on Monday. Box Set DVD giveaway at the Concordia screening. More info here -->
Source: www.cinemapolitica.org
Cinema Politica is a grassroots network that distributes and exhibits political cinema at campuses and in communities across Canada and internationally. Screenings are by donation and focus on independent documentaries.
I am absolutely thrilled to announce that Tying Your Own Shoes has won the Golden Dove – the grand prize for short documentary film at the Leipzig Festival! Hooray!!!!! I am still in shock but wanted to share the happy news! ...
Congratulations to all! The world premiere of Tying Your Own Shoes was on Friday at 5pm here in Leipzig, Germany. They put us in an ENORMOUS theatre – it seats about 800 and was maybe half to two-thirds full, with a massive screen! The film looked gorgeous and the music sounded great! ...
NFB Paste Magazine's Robert Davis makes some interesting connections between George Lucas and Arthur Lipsett. It's very nice, very nice...
Source: bit.ly
When the National Film Board of Canada released an iPhone application last week, I naturally thought of Luke Skywalker, Darth Vader, and Yoda. For some people, trolling through the NFB’s video archives will undoubtedly bring to mind those three famous Canadians....
NFB Meet Ken and Verna from the GDP project - two long time residents of Iroquois Falls feeling the pinch of the economic downturn.
Source: gdp.nfb.ca
Long-time residents of Iroquois Falls – Ken and Verna have been getting by on his modest pension. Then his former employer files for bankruptcy protection – and their retirement income is suddenly halved. Has northern Ontario been forgotten?
Filmmaker Shira Avni (John and Michael) is in Germany for the Leipzig Documentary Film Festival for the world premiere of her latest film, Tying Your Own Shoes. *** Greetings from DOK Leipzig: the 52nd International Leipzig Festival for Documentary and Animated Film...
NFB Happy Halloween! Nothing says creepy like a couple of marionettes...
Source: www.nfb.ca
In Co Hoedeman's animated short about a troupe of marionette acrobats, everything that can go wrong does. No matter what the ringleader does, each act goes awry until we begin to wonder who's really running the show. ...
This week’s Canada CODE challenger is Bonnie Sherr Klein, a familiar name here at the NFB for such works as Citizen’s Medicine, Little Burgundy, and, of course, Not a Love Story. Sh...
NFB East meets West... on the ice!
Source: www.nfb.ca
In this documentary, the members of the University of British Columbia's Thunderbirds hockey team travel to China to demonstrate their skills to the new teams in the East. While hockey there still has a long way to go, this film leaves no doubt that the Chinese players are up to the challenge. ...
