We don't always think of The National Film Board as an exciting hub of Canadian filmic activity, but that's because we're a bunch of knobs. Look at how much pertinent, edgy, historicallly and artiscally valid, purely Canadian content is on their website by clicking on this sentence. Amazing eh? What's more, BC logging activist Grant Hadwin’s resolute struggle to reconcile what he regarded as an egregious affront—not just to the land, but to humanity as well, has been turned into BIG CRAZY MOVIE!
Hadwin's Judgement by Sasha Snow, National Film Board of Canada
Any of it sound familiar? Does it ring a bell as you think of the book, The Golden Spruce?
Same guy :), but what's the really big news? The film is showing at the Toronto International Film Festival. Not that anyone we know will actually be able to go see it there, but... BC REPRAZENT!
That's not all though, there's a metric ton of candy-like Can-Con at TIFF this year, if you've got 15 mins to check out trailers...
look out below!
Mysteries and disappearances stranger than anything in a detective novel.
Visionary one-of-a-kind figures in Canadian arts and politics. Feature documentaries and short works, and a live preview of the final installment in a legendary six-year digital project. It’s all part of a rich National Film Board of Canada (NFB) presence at the Hot Docs Canadian International Documentary Festival in Toronto, where NFB works will be showcased this year from April 23 to May 3, 2015.
Screening in the Canadian Spectrum program are Sophie Deraspe’s esperamos/NFB co-produced feature documentary The Amina Profile, which had its world premiere at the Sundance Film Festival, and Serge Giguère’s Productions du Rapide-Blanc/NFB co-production Finding Macpherson, a captivating 10-year look at an artist at work, which was named Best Feature-Length Documentary at Quebec’s Jutra Awards on March 15. Justin Simms and William D. MacGillivray’s Danny, a portrait of legendary Newfoundland and Labrador Premier Danny Williams, is one of just five titles chosen for Hot Docs’ Big Ideas program, while Mike Maryniuk’s eclectic multi-media film Home Cooked Music and Martin Bureau’s impressionistic Hell Runs on Gasoline! are featured in the Short Documentary program. Winner of the Grand Prize for Best Animated Feature-length Film at the Ottawa International Animation Film Festival, Luc Chamberland’s animated documentary Seth’s Dominion, about Canadian cartoonist Seth, is featured in the Next program, which explores creativity, pop culture and the arts.
As Hot Docs inaugurates its DocX program for innovative interactive documentaries, the festival will host a sneak preview of HIGHRISE: Universe Within with the one-night-only participatory live performance Universe Within, Live. Launching online later this year, HIGHRISE: Universe Within delves into the hidden digital lives of high-rise residents around the world and is the final iteration in the NFB’s many media, multi-year digital documentary project HIGHRISE, directed by Katerina Cizek, which has to date garnered a number of prestigious international honours: two Emmy Awards, a Peabody Award, a World Press Photo Prize, two Canadian Screen Awards, and the first-ever IDFA DocLab Award for Digital Storytelling.
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