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The Mediatheque on ice! Animation workshop for families

Dec 27 2011 - 12:00am
Jan 8 2012 - 12:00am

Location

NFB Mediatheque
150 John St.
Toronto, ON
Canada
Phone: 416-973-3012
43° 38' 56.994" N, 79° 23' 27.3876" W

Looking for fun, affordable ways to spend quality family time over the holidays? Try one of our popular filmmaking workshops. There are so many to choose from that you can try a new activity every day!

Workshops are offered daily at 12 p.m. and 3 p.m.

For children aged 3 to 13, $5 per child and free admission for accompanying adults. 

For registration, please call 416-973-3012.

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NFB Mediatheque
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NFB Mediatheque: Animation workshop for adults

Dec 18 2011 - 10:00am
Dec 18 2011 - 5:00pm

Location

NFB Mediatheque
150 John St.
Toronto, ON
Canada
Phone: 416-973-3012
43° 38' 56.994" N, 79° 23' 27.3876" W

Get animated with us for a full day in this monthly comprehensive workshop for adults! December's workshop will explore classical hands-on animation techniques.

$12 per person. 

Advance egistration required please call 416-973-3012 to register.

Capacity is limited.

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NFB Mediatheque
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The Mediatheque on ice! Holiday Screenings

Dec 27 2011 - 2:00pm
Jan 8 2012 - 12:00am

Location

NFB Mediatheque
150 John St.
Toronto, ON
Canada
Phone: 416-973-3012
43° 38' 56.994" N, 79° 23' 27.3876" W

Need a break from the holiday hustle-and-bustle?

Give your family and your wallet some much needed down time. Visit us over the holidays to watch new releases, classics, wintry and holiday-themed animated movies - all for FREE!

Titles include:

The Sweater, Log Driver's Waltz, Lights for Gita, The Cat Came Back, Cinderella Penguin, It's Snow, Island, Blackberry Subway Jam, The Danish Poet, My Grandmother Ironed the King's Shirts, Noel Noel, The Legend of the Flying Canoe, Leon in Wintertime and Snow Cat.

This event is completely free!

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NFB Mediatheque
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David J. Climenhaga

Wiebo Ludwig, fierce and ailing at 69, brings his inescapable star power to Edmonton

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Free Favourite Films at Four presents Invisible City

Nov 16 2011 - 4:00pm
Nov 16 2011 - 6:00pm

Location

NFB Mediatheque
150 John St
Toronto, ON
Canada
Phone: 416-973-3012
43° 38' 56.994" N, 79° 23' 27.3876" W

Join the National Film Board of Canada for the free screening of documentary Invisible City depicting the struggles of urban poverty and race in Toronto's Reagent Park.

Invisible City is a moving story of two boys from Regent Park crossing into adulthood -- their mothers and mentors rooting for them to succeed; their environment and social pressures tempting them to make poor choices. Turning his camera on the often ignored inner city, Academy-award nominated director Hubert Davis sensitively depicts the disconnection of urban poverty and race from the mainstream.

Contact name: 
Amanda D'Aoust
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Columnists

Canadian cultural modesty and U.S. artistic ambition in film

Terrence Malick's film, The Tree of Life, opens today. It won the Palme d'or at Cannes, a big prestigious deal. Like his others, it inspires something nearer reverence than mere respect: for its "audacity and vision" in "excavating primal, eternal meanings" and for its "sheer beauty."

These abstractions are like the solemn voice-overs in his films, which scatter words like evil, wicked, "the spark." There are always gorgeous shots of nature that you tend to be aware of as gorgeous. I don't mean there's anything phony in his obsessions; he's a Christian seeker who makes lush films he agonizes over. For critics they may come as relief after too many movies about hangovers and superheroes.

NFB launches web documentary 'Welcome to Pine Point'

Vancouver storytellers and media makers, Paul Shoebridge and Mike Simons, describe their latest project Welcome To Pine Point as "part book, part film, part family photo album." Launched in collaboration with the National Film Board, the web documentary explores the community of Pine Point, a Canadian mining town erased from the map. Watch the full-length documentary at: pinepoint.nfb.ca

Project Grizzly

Dec 15 2010 - 4:00pm
Dec 15 2010 - 6:00pm

Location

NFB Mediatheque
150 John St. (at Richmond St. W)
Toronto, ON
Canada
Phone: 416-973-3012
43° 42' 17.9208" N, 79° 30' 43.3188" W

The NFB Mediatheque will be presenting a favourite NFB title on the big screen for Free! The perfect midweek break and an easy way to catch up on NFB classics!

Troy James Hurtubise is a "close-quarter bear researcher," who is obsessed with going face-to-face with a deadly grizzly bear, and so creates what he hopes is a grizzly-proof suit of armour.

 

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Get animated! New releases program

Oct 28 2010 - 9:00pm

Location

NFB Mediatheque
150 John (at Richmond)
Toronto, ON
Canada
Phone: 416 973 3012
43° 42' 17.9208" N, 79° 30' 43.3188" W

Free


Be the first to experience the NFB’s newest animated short films, hot off the festival circuit! These internationally acclaimed films, from one of the most well-respected production centres of animation in the world, are finally being screened all together in Toronto. The New Releases Program offers a peek at the full spectrum of animation this year at the NFB -- from the dark images of war created by Claude Cloutier in The Trenches, to the intimate honesty conveyed by Andrea Dorfman in Flawed.

arts/media

Marcel Simard: A tragic loss for Quebec cinema

Quebec film director and producer Marcel Simard.

The article below is a tribute to Marcel Simard, a central figure in Quebec cinema who is barely known in English Canada. Last Saturday, Marcel committed suicide after a long depression. His death is a terrible loss to cinema throughout Canada because, as his friend Marquise Lepage says in the extraordinary piece below, he made provocative films often about the people society prefers not to see.

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