CMF Joins NFB, Telefilm’s Industry-Defining Presence at Annecy, Powering Canadian Animation on a Global Scale

Ahead of the new initiative Canada Morning, the institutions' top executives detail what lies ahead for the booming Canadian ...
Cartoon Brew

Inside Hothouse 15: How A 12-Week Sprint Keeps Canadian Animation Fresh

The National Film Board of Canada’s (NFB) 12-week mentorship program recently wrapped up its 15th edition and is sharing six films online. This year’s theme was People Watching. The participants ...

Canada's NFB Unveils Exhibition at Annecy's New Animated Film Museum

The new Musée du cinéma d'animation (Museum of Animated Film) in Annecy, France, is featuring a collection of films and ...
Cartoon Brew

NFB’s Montreal Studio Remembered: Filmmakers And Studio Employees On Building’s Legacy

In September 2019 (though, given the many delays thus far, that’s just a rough guess at the moving date), the National Film Board of Canada (NFB) will bid adieu to their infamous old headquarters ...
The Globe and Mail

The NFB’s new strategy: milk the ‘Stream Canadian’ moment and reinvest in creativity

The National Film Board has always been ahead of its time. But the federal cultural agency, which has produced thousands of documentaries, animated films and interactive digital works since its ...
The Globe and Mail

Without a strong NFB, Canadians will lose sight of who we are

Barry Rueger is a writer based in Nova Scotia. When I finally bought myself a lovely, red canoe in 1997, it was because I spent my youth, 30 years earlier, watching the many canoeing films by the ...
CBC.ca

Head of NFB says budget numbers filmmakers are blasting are wrong

The head of the National Film Board (NFB) is hoping to soothe tensions with filmmakers after an independent group alleged the Crown corporation is mismanaging its budget and hurting Canadian cinema.