Articles Tagged ‘NFB’
NFB filmmaker named MIT visiting artist
DIGITAL / PEOPLE NEWSKaterina Cizek (pictured) will work with the institute’s OpenDocLab to develop the next production in the NFB’s multimedia Highrise project.
The NFB launches pay multiplatform service for docs
DIGITAL / FILMThe National Film Board of Canada is launching a multi-platform subscription service for docs which it hopes will become “the Netflix of documentaries,” allowing filmmakers to be connected “almost instantaneously with their audiences.”
New York Times’s ‘Op-Docs’ partners with NFB
DIGITALThe National Film Board of Canada’s Highrise project has paired with The New York Times‘s ‘Op-Docs’ strand for A Short History of the Highrise, an interactive short doc series. (Pictured: director Katerina Cizek)
Exclusive: Christina Rogers leaves NFB, joins Magnolia
FILM / PEOPLE NEWSThe National Film Board of Canada’s (NFB) long-serving head of sales Christina Rogers (pictured) has left the company after more than a decade, realscreen has learned, to join Magnolia Pictures.
“Stories We Tell,” “Dragons’ Den” triumph at CSAs
FILM / TVSarah Polley’s Stories We Tell (pictured) took the best feature doc prize at the Canadian Screen Awards’ Broadcast Gala in Toronto last night, while CBC show Dragons’ Den triumphed in the reality and competition show category.
Cinedigm takes U.S. rights to “The Fruit Hunters”
FILMThe U.S. distributor is planning a spring 2013 theatrical release for Yung Chang’s documentary (pictured), which is coproduced by the NFB and EyeSteelFilm, and looks at the world of exotic fruit and its enthusiasts.
NFB names Ravida Din as its director general
FILM / PEOPLE NEWSThe National Film Board of Canada has appointed Ravida Din, who has been with the organization since 2007 as both a producer and executive producer, as the director general of its English Program.
Polley on the evolution of her “Stories”
FILMCanadian director Sarah Polley (pictured), whose Stories We Tell last night scooped the Toronto Film Critics Association’s Best Canadian Film Award, talks to realscreen about the challenge of making her doc debut.
TFO, NFB partner to promote French programming
FILM / TVCanadian TV station TFO and the National Film Board of Canada’s three-year agreement will see the two public organizations pool their resources in digital markets to produce and distribute content. (Pictured: The NFB’s Tom Perlmutter)
NFB pioneer Roman Kroitor passes away
PEOPLE NEWSRoman Kroitor (pictured), a filmmaker who played a key role in the National Film Board of Canada during the 1950s and 1960s, has passed away at the age of 86.
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