How did a 73-year-old government agency operating under an almost laughably boring mandate (“to interpret Canada to Canadians and other nations!”) turn into a hotbed of film innovation? NFB chair Tom ...

Oscar for an NFB film--and 1st for the Montreal animation duo MONTREAL, March 15, 2026 /CNW/ - Chris Lavis and Maciek Szczerbowski's haunting stop-motion fable The Girl Who Cried Pearls is an Oscar ...

Montreal, August 24, 2011 — The National Film Board of Canada heads to the 35th Ottawa International Animation Festival (September 21—25, 2011) with a dazzling array of international co-productions by ...

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 ...

A screen capture showing the opening page of Welcome to Pine Point by the Goggles, a project awarded two Webby Awards in 2011. A screen capture showing the opening page of Welcome to Pine Point by the ...

At a time when independent and international animation are more influential than ever, two of Canada’s key cultural institutions — the National Film Board of Canada (NFB) and Telefilm Canada — are ...

Chris Lavis and Maciek Szczerbowski's haunting stop-motion fable The Girl Who Cried Pearls is an Oscar winner-the National Film Board of Canada (NFB ...

Creating and distributing innovative and original films that "just can't be found elsewhere and deliver enormous value" to Canadians is a key message in the National Film Board's new strategic plan ...

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A champion of Canadian culture, and one of the country's most experienced arts administrators, is gone. Jacques Bensimon died on Sunday at age 69 after a struggle with cancer. Bensimon, who had worked ...

“Unique” is an often-misused adjective, but it certainly applied to Jacques Drouin. For three decades, the late Quebec animator was the only artist in the world practising the intensely intricate ...

At a time when independent and international animation are more influential than ever, two of Canada's key cultural institutions - the National Film Board of Canada (NFB) and Telefilm Canada - are ...