The National Film Board of Canada is celebrating its 70th anniversary with a special series of free public screenings titled Get Animated! that will screen in 13 communities across the country.
The screenings will run from Oct. 23-31, and will run in conjunction with exclusive online programming that will begin Oct. 8.
The event will include two programs: Animation Feast and the NFB Family Program. The family program will include special presentations by filmmakers Chris Landreth and Cordell Barker and workshops for kids. A new 2-disc DVD and Blu-ray sets collecting the most innovative animation, titled Animation Express, will be sold at the events.
Screenings will take place in Victoria, Vancouver, Edmonton, Calgary, Winnipeg, Toronto, Montreal and Halifax, as well as in five communities served by the NFB’s e-cinema network for francophone Acadians: Moncton, Bouctouche, Caraquet, Edmundston and Kedgwick, New Brunswick.
The Animation Feast program of NFB new releases features nine shorts: The Spine by Chris Landreth, Runaway by Cordell Barker, Vive la Rose by Bruce Alcock, Peggy Baker Four Phrases by Howie Shia, Spare Change by Laurie Gordon and Ryan Larkin, How People Got Fire by Daniel Janke, Land of the Heads by Claude Barras and Cedric Louis, The Man Who Slept by In’s Sedan, and Robes of War by Mich’le Cournoyer.
The Family Program features Runaway, Th’odore Ushev’s Tzaritza, Pierre-Luc Granjon and Pascal Le N’tre’s Leon in Wintertime as well as two shorts from the NFB’s Hothouse program for young animators: Wiggles and Giggles by Sarah Guindon and Git Gob by Philip Eddolls.
For online videos and complete screening and workshop schedules, visit nfb.ca/getanimated.
