[20], In 1956, the NFB's headquarters was relocated from Ottawa to Montreal, improving the NFB's reputation in French Canada and making the NFB more attractive to French-speaking filmmakers. [7] In June 2011, the NFB appointed a producer to work with film and digital media makers across Saskatchewan, to be based in Regina.[8]. After Expo, Kroitor left the NFB to co-found what would become known as IMAX Corporation, with Graeme Ferguson and Robert Kerr. The term pixilation itself was created by NFB animator Grant Munro in an experimental film of the same name. The Unknown Photographer won the People's Voice award in the Online Film & Video/VR: Gaming, Interactive or Real-Time category, while Universe Within received the Webby for Online Film & Video/Best Use of Interactive Video, and Cardboard Crash VR for Google Cardboard won in the category of Online Film & Video/VR: Gaming, Interactive or Real-time (Branded).[54]. SnagFilms is a pleasant blue and grey platform offering tons of film to watch for free. [164], As of 2016, NFB web documentaries have won 17 Webby Awards, presented International Academy of Digital Arts and Sciences for excellence on the internet. [22], Throughout the 1960s and 1970s, the National Film Board produced several educational films in partnership with Parks Canada, including Bill Schmalz's Bears and Man. [54], In January 2009, the NFB launched its online Screening Room, NFB.ca, offering Canadian and international web users the ability to stream hundreds of NFB films for free as well as embed links in blogs and social sites. [23], In the early 1970s, the NFB began a process of decentralization, opening film production centres in cities across Canada. [84][85] A documentary was also made about the effort to increase aboriginal representation in filmmaking.[86]. The organization has a hierarchical structure headed by a Board of Trustees, which is chaired by the Government Film Commissioner and NFB Chairperson. First Stories was followed by "Second Stories," in which three filmmakers from the previous program—Gerald Auger, Tessa Desnomie and Lorne Olson—were invited back to create 20 minute films. Pudlo welc... omed the changes brought about by modern life into the Arctic (example in his work - the airplanes, which he adopted as one of his preferred subjects). Juneau recommended the creation of a French production branch to enable francophone filmmakers to work and create in their own language. Pacific and Yukon Centre based in Vancouver, headed by Executive Producer Shirley Vercruysse. In 2016-2017, 44 per cent of NFB productions were directed by women (compared to 51 per cent directed by men and five per cent by mixed teams). Screenwriter Jacques Bobet, hired in 1947, worked to strengthen the French Unit and retain French talent and was appointed producer of French versions in 1951. [18][19], In 1950, a revision of the National Film Act removed any direct government intervention into the operation and administration of the NFB. [176] Released the following year, If You Love This Planet, winner of the Academy Award for best documentary short subject, was labelled foreign propaganda under the Foreign Agents Registration Act of 1938 in the United States. [39], The NFB was a pioneer in computer animation, releasing one of the first CGI films, the Oscar-nominated Hunger, in 1974, then forming its Centre d'animatique in 1980 to develop new CGI technologies. [29] The NFB eliminated 73 full and part-time positions. [65], In September 2011, the NFB and the Montreal French-language daily Le Devoir announced that they would jointly host three interactive essays on their websites, ONF.ca and ledevoir.com. The results of Grierson's report were included in the National Film Act of 1939. Founded in 2005, it is the largest collection of Sea Ray information on the internet. [13], In 1939 (82 years ago) (1939), the Act led to the establishment of the National Film Commission, which was subsequently renamed the National Film Board (NFB). The Sand Castle was the first (and so far only) sand animation to win an Oscar. These revenues are from print sales, film production services, rentals, and royalties, and total up to $10 million yearly; the NFB lists this as Respendable Revenues in its financial statements. Constant video surveillance, satellite tracking, radio collars… sometimes it’s hard to tell where the wired world ends and the wild one begins - Bear 71 These images were widely distributed through publication in various media. Wendy Tilby and Amanda Forbes perfected the paint on glass technique (mixing oil paint with glycerine) on films such as Strings and Wild Life. ", "The National Film Board of Canada in the Year 2000: Action Plan, A New Charter for a New Century", "What's inside the new NFB iPhone App - NFB/blog", "The NFB Films iPad app is now available! It is overseen by the Board of Trustees Secretariat and Legal Affairs. The NFB played a key role in both the Cinéma vérité and Direct Cinema movements, working on technical innovations to make its 16 mm synchronized sound equipment more light-weight and portable—most notably the "Sprocketape" portable sound recorder invented for the film board by Ches Beachell in 1955. The unit's first release was The Ballad of Crowfoot (1968), described as "the first NFB film to present First Nations experience from an Indigenous point of view. The NFB continued to be involved with IMAX breakthroughs at subsequent world's fairs, with NFB director Donald Brittain directing the first-ever IMAX film Tiger Child for Expo 70 in Osaka, and with the NFB producing the first full-colour IMAX-3D film Transitions for Expo 86 in Vancouver and the first 48 fps IMAX HD film Momentum for Seville Expo '92. [60] The NFB introduced a free iPad application in July 2010,[61] followed by its first app for the Android platform in March 2011. [2] The NFB reports to the Parliament of Canada through the Minister of Canadian Heritage. [1]  Production personnel are between 10-25%. Commentary 75. [38], McLaren's Oscar-winning Neighbours popularized the form of character movement referred to as pixilation, a variant of stop motion. The politicized Oscar. With small satellite offices in Winnipeg and St. John's. These films were based on current news and often tackled wartime events as well as contemporary issues in Canadian culture. [11], As part of the 2016 Canadian federal budget, the NFB will receive an additional $13.5 million in funding, spread out over a five-year period. Studio D was shut down in 1996, amidst a sweeping set of federal government budget cuts, which impacted the NFB as a whole. NFB-produced and co-produced works featured at prestigious non-fiction forum. [51][52], The NFB is also recognized as a leader in virtual reality,[53] with works such as the Webby Award-winning The Unknown Photographer, Way to Go and Cardboard Crash. [165] In 2010, the NFB website Waterlife, on the state of the Great Lakes, won in the Documentary: Individual Episode category. [120] 55 of the NFB's 75 Oscar nominations have been for its short films.[121]. [97], A collaboration with the Canadian Film Centre on a theatrical documentary development program. Pudlo's art is found in many of Canada's museum collections. [77], In 2005, the NFB introduced its "First Stories" program for emerging Indigenous directors from Alberta, Saskatchewan and Manitoba. [170] In 2015, the NFB-co-produced webdoc Seven Digital Deadly Sins received three People's Voice Awards, chosen by the public online, at the 2015 Webby Awards. [46], Welcome to Pine Point received two Webby Awards while Out My Window, an interactive project from the NFB's Highrise project, won the IDFA DocLab Award for Digital Storytelling and an International Digital Emmy Award. The NFB has received more than 90 awards from the Canadian Film Awards, the Genie Awards and the Canadian Screen Awards, including a Special Achievement Genie in 1989 for its 50th anniversary. Here, past and present blend, myth and reality meet, and the metaphor of fire infuses all in a location that lies at the heart of this Native community’s spiritual and cultural memory. Shannon was designated as Executive Director of the new studio—the first government-funded film studio dedicated to women filmmakers in the world— which became one of the NFB's most celebrated filmmaking units, winning awards and breaking distribution records. NFB-branded series Retrovision appeared on VisionTV, along with the French-language Carnets ONF series on APTN. From 1941 to 1984, the Division commissioned freelance photographers to document every aspect of life in Canada. [49][50], Dao's counterpart for French-language interactive media production at the NFB is Hugues Sweeney, based in Montreal. In spring 2019, the NFB moved its headquarters from the Norman McLaren Building in the Montreal borough of Saint-Laurent to the new Îlot Balmoral building located at Montreal's Quartier des spectacles, adjacent to the Place des Festivals [fr] square. The vignettes became popular because of their cultural depiction of Canada, and because they represented its changing state, such as the vignette Faces which was made to represent the increasing cultural and ethnic diversity of Canada. [25][26], In 2006, the NFB marked the 65th anniversary of NFB animation with an international retrospective of restored Norman McLaren classics and the launch of the DVD box set, Norman McLaren – The Master's Edition. [32], As of March 8, 2016, researchers and librarians at the University of Calgary announced an archival project to preserve records of Studio D.[89], On March 8, 2016, NFB head Claude Joli-Coeur announced a new gender-parity initiative, with the NFB committing that half of all its production spending will be earmarked for films directed by women. (political aspects of Academy Awards, 1983).Richard Grenier. [78][79][80], The NFB was a founding partner in Wapikoni Mobile, a mobile film and media production unit for emerging First Nations filmmakers in Quebec. [118] The first-ever Oscar for documentary went to the NFB production, Churchill's Island. [11], Beginning on 2 May 2014, the NFB's 75th anniversary was marked by such events as the release of a series of commemorative stamps by Canada Post,[30] and an NFB documentary about the film board's early years, entitled Shameless Propaganda. (June 1983): pp68(7). Interactive Studio in Montreal, headed by Executive Producer, Ontario and West Studio based in Toronto, headed by Executive Producer: Jacques Turgeon, Quebec Studio based in Montreal, also headed by Executive Producer: Jacques Turgeon. [98], As of 2015, the NFB is organized along the following branches:[99]. The National Film Board of Canada (NFB; French: Office national du film du Canada (ONF)) is Canada's public film and digital media producer and distributor. The NFB's French-language animation unit was founded in 1966 by René Jodoin. [76] Films from the Nunavut Animation Lab include Alethea Arnaquq-Baril's 2010 digital animation short Lumaajuuq, winner of the Best Aboriginal Award at the Golden Sheaf Awards and named Best Canadian Short Drama at the imagineNATIVE Film + Media Arts Festival. As the story unfolds, we also meet 12-year-old Tish, an introspective, talented girl who feels drawn to the elder. With six regional studios in English Program: And four regional studios in French Program: Upon its merger with the Canadian Government Motion Picture Bureau in 1941, the NFB's mandate expanded to include motion as well as still pictures, resulting in the creation of the Still Photography Division of the NFB. It will be broadcast on TVO and stream free on NFB.ca and TVO.org. [73], In November 2011, the NFB and partners including the Inuit Relations Secretariat and the Government of Nunavut introduced a DVD and online collection entitled Unikkausivut: Sharing Our Stories, makes over 100 NFB films by and about Inuit available in Inuktitut and other Inuit languages, as well as English and French. [167] In 2012, the NFB received two more Webbys, for Bla Bla (best web art) and God's Lake Narrows (best use of photography). In 1996, the NFB operating budget was cut by 32%, forcing it to lay off staff and to close its film laboratory, sound stage (now privatized) and other departments. Features designed specifically for teachers. Traditional animators included Richard Condie, John Weldon, Allison Snowden, Janet Perlman, Cordell Barker, Brad Caslor, Michael Mills, Paul Driessen among others (some draw on paper rather than cels). Neighbourhood pillar Grandma Kay tell the local children the tale of how Crow brought fire to people. Barbara Wilson, Tom O’Connor, Noel Starblanket, Roy Daniels, Morris Isaac, Willie Dunn, and Mike Kanentakeron Mitchell were on Canada’s first all-Indigenous production unit, making groundbreaking work that helped galvanize Indigenous movements across the continent. Most of the content is available to everyone, some of it is restricted to the US. Other key cinéma vérité films during this period included Lonely Boy (1961) and Ladies and Gentlemen... Mr. Leonard Cohen (1965). It has received 74 Oscar nominations, more than any film organization in the world outside Hollywood. National Film Board 2021-01-15T11:17:19-05:00 Feature-length documentary and three interactive works showcased at IDFA. [12], In 1938, the Government of Canada invited John Grierson, a British documentary film producer who introduced the term "documentary" to English-speaking film criticism, to study the state of the government's film production. As of October 2009, the Atlantic Centre also operates an office in St. John's, Newfoundland and Labrador. [59] In January 2010, the NFB added high-definition and 3D films to the over 1400 productions available for viewing online. [171], At the 2016 awards, the NFB received six more Webbys: Way to Go received the Webby and People's Voice awards in the Web/NetArt category as well as the Webby for Online Film & Video/VR: Gaming, Interactive or Real-Time. Budget-wise, 43 per cent of production funds were given to projects led by women (vs. 40 per cent to projects directed by men and 15 per cent to ones overseen by mixed teams). [67] NFB documentaries are also available on Netflix Canada. The Canadian Film Development Corporation would become responsible for promoting the development of the film industry. Filmmaker-in-Residence, a project by Katerina Cizek about St. Michael's Hospital in Toronto, was named best online documentary series at the 2008 Webbys. 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