It is perhaps impossible to assess the impact of the body of work created by Canada’s National Film Board (NFB; ONF en français) on our national culture—or, indeed, on international cinematic culture.
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Keep ReadingOnsite at BAM (Bogotá Audiovisual Market) 2019, it’s clear that extensive investment in changing the country’s story culturally and economically through benefits and business opportunities is certainly stimulating the film and television
Keep ReadingIn fifteen years Colombia has built a thriving film and television industry, making it and Bogotá in particular, the new hot spot in the Americas for filmmaking. 27 foreign-directed films were shot
Keep ReadingThe night before New Year’s Eve, veteran filmmaker Pepita Ferrari lost her life to cancer. While her life was cut short, her contribution to documentary cinema was long and in early 2019
Keep ReadingSince the creation of the Vancouver and Montreal based studios, interactive works and VR have taken off and the Board has expanded production in new media across the country.
Keep ReadingHighlights from the 2018 TIFF Doc Conference included talks with Werner Herzog, Alethea Arnaquq-Baril, Maxin Pozdorovkin, and more.
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Keep ReadingIn Canada, it’s called fair dealing. In the States, fair use. But as for hard guidelines, there aren’t any.
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