The National Film Board (NFB) showcased yet another of its multimedia projects at New York’s influential Tribeca Film Festival this spring. Draw Me Close, a still-in-production long-form virtual reality (VR) experience, follows
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When Greg Tourino, a science librarian at Simon Fraser University and former graduate cinema student was asked in BCLiving Magazine about his passion for Black Canadian film, his answer could stand for
Keep ReadingSaskatchewan film is innovative, reflective work that leans toward the personal, yet tells a story specific to a part of the country.
Keep ReadingThe queer connection to documentary filmmaking is longstanding and unmistakable. Around the world, fiction filmmakers have had to deal with a long history of censorship and repression, meaning images of LGBTQÂ characters were
Keep ReadingThings Arab Men Say illustrates the necessity of offering more opportunities for voices of new Canadians and minority groups. The NFB is to be congratulated for taking a leadership role in this
Keep ReadingThe Tesla World Light (Canada, 8 min.) Dir. Matthew Rankin Peter Mettler’s Picture of Light proves that a filmmaker can capture the fleeting radiance of the Northern Lights to create an
Keep ReadingBirth of a Family (Canada, 79 min.) Dir. Tasha Hubbard Programme: Canadian Spectrum (World Premiere) A revelatory documentary, Birth of a Family is a family-reunion doc unlike any you’ve seen before.
Keep ReadingThe Klondike Gold Rush of the late 1890s is one of the most startling stories in Canadian history, one of high drama and adventure played out in the gorgeous frozen landscape of
Keep ReadingArguably the first Canadian music video, The Ballad of Crowfoot sees Mi’kmaq singersongwriter Willie Dunn setting his own epic protest ballad to visuals. In Dunn’s song, the biography of legendary 19th-century Blackfoot chief
Keep ReadingIt is certainly one of the most justified criticisms of the NFB’s feminist Studio D that it took so long for the unit to produce a feature-length film about the lives of
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