Tag: NFB
Oscar-Winning Canadian Animator Grant Munro Dies Age 94
Grant Munro, an animator and actor who starred in Norman McLaren's 1953 Best Short Film Oscar-winning pixilation Cold War parable Neighbors (Voisins) and co-directed...
Oscar Race Heats Up with 26 Animated Films
Twenty-six features have been submitted for consideration in the Animated Feature Film category for the 90th Academy Awards. The submitted features, listed in alphabetical...
Poetry and Personal Connection: ‘Window Horses’
An imaginative young Canadian poet named Rosie Ming (voiced by Sandra Oh) learns about Persian culture and the healing power of poetry when she...
‘Ugly’ and ‘Night Is Short’ Win Grand Prizes at Ottawa
The 2017 Ottawa International Animation Festival wrapped this weekend with the announcement of this year's Official Competition winners. This year's festival received 1,992 entries,...
First Pond Saddles Up NFB Feature ‘Window Horses’
First Pond Entertainment -- a film sales and distribution company concentrating on issue-driven narratives centering underrepresented communities -- has picked up US rights to...
TIFF Shorts Program Features 3 NFB Animations
The National Film Board of Canada will have its animation studio projects well represented at the Toronto International Film Festival (taking place Sept. 7-17),...
NFB Short ‘Skin for Skin’ Gets Fantasia Fest World Premiere
Neo-Gothic mixed technique animated short Skin for Skin -- directed by Calgary filmmakers Carol Beecher and Kevin D. A. Kurytnik, produced by the National...
NFB Animated Short Doc ‘Oscar’ Streams for Free
Marie-Josée Saint-Pierre’s animated documentary short Oscar -- a biographical piece on acclaimed jazz pianist Oscar Peterson -- has been made available to stream for...
‘The Head Vanishes’ Takes Palm Springs ShortFest Grand Jury Award
The 2017 Palm Springs International ShortFest film festival and market concluded with an awards ceremony June 25, bestowing more than $115,000 in prizes (including...
NFB Forms 3-Year Plan to Uplift Indigenous Peoples
The National Film Board of Canada has unveiled a three-year plan and series of commitments shaped by the work and recommendations of the Truth...
Animafest Zagreb Awards Prizes
The 27th World Festival of Animated Film – Animafest Zagreb ended Saturday with an awards ceremony at Cinema Europa.
The full list of winners follows:
Short...
300-Plus Films Slated for Animafest Zagreb 2017
The 27th World Festival of Animated Film - Animafest Zagreb will return to the Croatian capital from June 5-10 -- following myriad introductory events...
2017 Stuttgart Animation Fest Winners Revealed
The 24th International Festival of Animated Film Stuttgart wrapped up over the weekend with a festive awards ceremony, capping an event that truly embraced...
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CTN Road Trip Burbank - April 29 & 30
The US capital of animation plays host to the annual free-to-the-public event, held in conjunction with...
NFB Shoots for Gender Parity of Key Creatives by 2020
Following the National Film Board of Canada’s announcement last year that it had set a goal to have 50% of its productions directed by...
NFB Closes Its First Cuban TV Deal
The National Film Board of Canada has secured its first television license deal in Cuba, which will see a slate of nine Canadian films...
NFB Feature ‘Window Horses’ Sets US Premiere for Santa Barbara
Vancouver-based filmmaker Ann Marie Fleming's acclaimed film Window Horses: The Poetic Persian Epiphany of Rosie Ming (from Stickgirl Productions and the National Film Board...
Party Down at OIAF’s ‘NIGHTOWL’ Sci-Fi Affair
The Ottawa International Animation Festival turns 40 this year, and joining in the lineup of celebratory events is the just-announced NIGHTOWL party. An "interactive,...
NFB VR Works Slated for POP 03 in Toronto
The National Film Board of Canada is bringing together a slate of six virtual reality and immersive media productions for Toronto's POP 03 installation,...
NFB VR Works Slated for POP 03 in Toronto
The National Film Board of Canada is bringing together a slate of six virtual reality and immersive media productions for Toronto’s POP 03 installation,...
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