Documentaries get the shaft once again in Canada's Top Ten. povmagazine.com/canadas-top-...

👉 Meet Vancouver animator Aerin Wu, who created the short SUPER MR. WOODS with the NFB. Now streaming on our platforms! 🤖 Story: @vancouverguardian.bsky.social vancouverguardian.com/vancouver-ar...

Amazing article and interview by John Hopewell at Variety that finally made me understand the story of THE GIRL WHO CRIED PEARLS. 😉

☺️ Thrilled to see INCANDESCENCE among Canada's @nationalobserver.com's 2025 film picks → bit.ly/3Lu5W5a Stream @novaami.bsky.social & @velcrow.bsky.social's #documentary for free today → www.nfb.ca/film/incande.... 🔥 #StreamCanadian

Just renewed my pro-account to receive the stats, haha!

🎙️ Toronto podcaster Carolyn Hinds invited Brishkay Ahmed to discuss her new NFB documentary IN THE ROOM. Both women issue a clear warning in the interview: Western audiences must not be complacent about women's rights. www.youtube.com/watch?v=yPPh... 🙏 @carriecnh12.bsky.social

Ending 2025 with my favourite non-NFB documentaries of the year: 📹 MR. NOBODY AGAINST PUTIN 🎥 RIEFENSTAHL I loved all my NFB films! As a pars pro toto, please check out INCANDESCENCE if you missed it: ❤️‍🔥 In Canada, on nfb.ca. 🔥 In the USA, on Prime Video. #HappyHolidays!

📣 New podcast: Documentary filmmakers Nova Ami and Velcrow Ripper discuss the challenges and protocols of filming in dangerous environments, drawing from their experience creating INCANDESCENCE, an immersive NFB documentary about increasingly intense wildfires. ❤️‍🔥 podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/n...

✨FYC -ANIMATED SHORT FILM ✨ 📿𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐆𝐢𝐫𝐥 𝐖𝐡𝐨 𝐂𝐫𝐢𝐞𝐝 𝐏𝐞𝐚𝐫𝐥𝐬 (#ONF/#NFB) →By allowing room for experimentation and spontaneity, 𝐂𝐡𝐫𝐢𝐬 𝐋𝐚𝐯𝐢𝐬 & 𝐌𝐚𝐜𝐢𝐞𝐤 𝐒𝐳𝐜𝐳𝐞𝐫𝐛𝐨𝐰𝐬𝐤𝐢 discovered that mistakes transformed the creative process. 👀 Français → bit.ly/4p791Wo @echampagne.bsky.social @nfb-jennifer.bsky.social

Inkwo was completed and released by the National Film Board of Canada last month. Watch the film and behind the scenes videos here: www.animateclay.com/post/inkwo-f...

BEST DOCUMENTARY THE PERFECT NEIGHBOR

For Best Documentary Film, the winner is GRAND THEFT HAMLET. Runner-up is ORWELL 2+2=5.

I'd love to see this one!

Love to see Aoife Kelleher's TESTIMONY name-checked by Dublin Film Critics Circle for both Best Documentary and Best Irish Film. Big congratulations to the whole team! www.irishtimes.com/culture/film...

An old man tells his granddaughter the story behind his fortune in Oscar-longlisted short film The Girl Who Cried Pearls www.eyeforfilm.co.uk/review/the-g... #filmsky 🎬

BEST DOCUMENTARY Sabbath Queen Runner-up: BLKNWS: Terms & Conditions

Vancouver, BC. #StreamCanadian

"Unfair, undemocratic, and a bit crass—and like congressional gerrymandering, it seems like a race to the bottom." open.substack.com/pub/anthonyk...

In the early 80s, the Haida Nation fought an important battle to save their way of life

Watched The Alabama Solution 👍 Apocalypse in the Tropics 🫤 Coexistence, My Ass! 👍 Come See Me in the Good Light ❤️ Mr. Nobody against Putin 💯 Mistress Dispeller 🫤 The Perfect Neighbor 👍 Yanuni 👍

⚪️This pearl is going for gold! 🤩 THE GIRL WHO CRIED PEARLS is among the 15 shortlisted by @theacademyusa.bsky.social for this year's Animated Short Film Oscar® → bit.ly/3MFL3nV Congrats to directors Chris Lavis and Maciek Szczerbowski, the National Film Board of Canada team, and fellow contenders.

Just watched The Perfect Neighbor last night and my mind is still blown. What a powerful documentary, made primarily with bodycam footage.

Haven’t seen this documentary but the synopsis on Letterboxd looks interesting.

Our winner for Best Documentary Film is The Tenderness Tour and our runner-up is Orwell: 2+2=5

Our 2025 winner for BEST DOCUMENTARY Orwell 2+2=5

Nice to see a local film win this category.

In the Room details the stories of five Afghan women, each with their own experiences living under the rule of the Taliban. ubyssey.ca/culture/iin-...

🥲 “I quite literally fell to my knees and started crying because it wasn’t just the excitement and the honour I felt, but I finally got my answer," says {RE}DEFINED finalist Maxime Kornachuk in @winnipegfreepress.com upon hearing he was selected. ⬇️ www.winnipegfreepress.com/our-communit...

It's #FYC season, so my #LastFourWatched include the Oscar-qualifying: 🎙️ COME SEE ME IN THE GOOD LIGHT (documentary) 🪒 HAIRY LEGS (animation) 💧 THE GIRL WHO CRIED PEARLS (animation) and I revisited the classic animation 🚂 MADAME TUTLI-PUTLI. Happy #LetterboxdFriday!

#ChrisLavis Talks #TheGirlWhoCriedPearls - the Oscar-nominated filmmaker discusses #MaciekSzczerbowski and his latest #stopmotion tour de force and how the tough decision to cut 3 minutes from the film was ultimately the right call. bit.ly/453mnf8 #NFB #Animation #AnimationWorld

“Camera angles can be as powerful as protest signs.” —Moira Simpson. She’s one of three Vancouver-based filmmakers who prove you don’t need a Marvel-sized budget to tell stories that stick. 👉 Read more → bit.ly/48IuTRU #StreamCanadian

🤭 My @peliplat.bsky.social 2025 wrap up is not that impressive... but I only started in October, when I discovered them as one of the community partners at VIFF 2025. Who else is on Peliplat, feel free to connect with me!

👍 New podcast interview out on "Passing Time with Craig" McFarlane: Interview with Noam Gonick, director, and Justine Pimlott, producer of PARADE: QUEER ACTS OF LOVE & RESISTANCE, now streaming on nfb.ca and our apps. 🎙️ podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/2...

🧡 The @cfnr.bsky.social show Good Medicine, hosted by @ashleypimlott.bsky.social, invited Lyana Patrick to discuss her feature doc NECHAKO: IT WILL BE A BIG RIVER AGAIN, which is now streaming on nfb.ca and the NFB app. 📻 soundcloud.com/northernnati... w/ @lanternfilms.bsky.social

How to win a documentary Oscar? Step 1 = Screen at Sundance. 😅 In all seriousness, great insight in this article by Anne Thompson (@akstanwyck.bsky.social). www.indiewire.com/awards/indus...

😅 On my never-ending watchlist: * The Tale of Silyan * Apocalypse in the Tropics * One to One: John & Yoko 📺 📺 📺

Allan King Documentary Award: Come See Me in the Good Light Runners-up: Orwell 2+2=5, The Tale of Silyan #TFCAawards

The nominees for Rogers Best Canadian Documentary are: - Endless Cookie - Ghosts of the Sea - Who Killed the Montreal Expos? #TFCAawards

[ FOR YOUR CONSIDERATION – Best Animated Short ] Entrevue - Interview via @animationworld.bsky.social Avec : Christine Noël, productrice exécutive des unités d'animation à l’#ONF ! #NFB EP Christine Noël on ‘The Girl Who Cried Pearls’ and Shaping the Future of #Animation. #NFBanimation

Last week, I binge-watched the Apple TV series CONSTELLATION, with Noomi Rapace & Jonathan Banks. I can't believe it was cancelled after Season 1. That twist in the last scene of the last episode 😨. It's not on Letterboxd, I'll see you next time for my #LastFourWatched. Happy #LetterboxdFriday!

😀 Winnipeg artist Maxime Kornachuk, who is one of five selected filmmakers in the TIFF & NFB initiative {RE}DEFINED, appeared on CTV Your Morning WPG today. ctvnews.ca/winnipeg/vid...

L'artiste multidisciplinaire Maxime Kornachuk discute de son parcours et de sa sélection à l'initiative #REDÉFINI #ONF à l'émission de Radio-Canada Culture et confiture #Manitoba ici.radio-canada.ca/ohdio/premie...

"For me, learning my language helps me better understand myself — especially when our Elders make it sound like sweet poetry."—Sinakson Trevor Solway.

😃 What good news for Edmonton musician Matthew Cardinal, who also also created original music for Sinakson Trevor Solway's documentary, SIKSIKAKOWAN: THE BLACKFOOT MAN. #StrangerThings 🎶

National Film Board of Canada and TIFF select five short doc projects in {RE}DEFINED collaboration @nfb-jennifer.bsky.social @katjadebock.bsky.social @torontospark.bsky.social: torontospark.ca/national-fil...

Singh originally conceived of The Nest during the COVID-19 quarantine in 2020, shortly after her mother suffered a major head injury at home that left her partially paralyzed. ubyssey.ca/culture/juli...

Today's Oscar-qualified short is 'Inkwo for When the Starving Return' from director Amanda Strong. Set in the near future, it turns on Dove, a mysterious warrior who can shift gender and must master their Inkwo (medicine) to battle monstrous forces. www.cartoonbrew.com/shorts/inkwo...

FROM THE OCT/NOV 25 ISSUE: Winnipeg-born filmmaker and artist Noam Gonick spoke with independent visual arts curator Wayne Baerwaldt about Gonick’s recent documentary, as well as his new ballet video installation. Full interview linked in the comments.

📣 New review up for Lyana Patrick's documentary NECHAKO: IT WILL BE A BIG RIVER AGAIN, now streaming on nfb.ca + the NFB app. Story by @themartlet.bsky.social (Victoria, BC). W. @lanternfilms.bsky.social martlet.ca/uvic-alumnas...

💻 Now streaming: IN THE ROOM! Vancouver filmmaker Brishkay Ahmed brings resistance stories from 5 Afghan women together to showcase the defiance, sisterhood, & enduring fight for women's freedom in Afghanistan in this all new documentary. #NoExcuse ▶️ Watch now → bit.ly/InTheRoomNFB