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The National Canada's ballet gets high-tech makeover
CBC News got a behind-the-scenes look at how organizers plan to balance the classic art form with visual innovation.
- 2018
- 00:04:12
- 13-14
- Added on: 07/26/2018
The National Influential filmmakers react to state of Indigenous film in Canada
The National spoke to three influential filmmakers about the state of Indigenous film in Canada. CBC Radio host Duncan McCue is joined by filmmakers Lisa Jackson and Alethea Arnaquq-Baril and the director of Canada's new Indigenous Screen Office, Jesse Wente.
- 2018
- 00:10:42
- 13-14
- Added on: 07/11/2018
The National Language barrier stops Canadian films from getting funding
A heavily criticized language barrier is stopping some Canadian films from getting money from the federal funding agency Telefilm Canada. To qualify for Telefilm funding, the movies must be in French, English or an Indigenous language. However, many films that win big at the Canadian Screen Awards are in other languages. Their directors hope Telefilm changes its rules soon so ...
- 2018
- 00:03:39
- 13-14
- Added on: 04/13/2018
The National Black Panther: For black youth, more than a superhero movie
Marvel's Black Panther has arrived to critical acclaim, but artistic merit aside, for lots of black youth it's much more than a superhero movie. CBC News followed a group of teenagers who won a screening to Black Panther to find out what the movie means to them and the lessons they learned from seeing the groundbreaking film.
- 2018
- 00:08:40
- 9-12
- Added on: 03/08/2018
The Wild Canadian Year Making The Wild Canadian Year
Watch the incredible feats of endurance and technical wizardry needed to capture the sequences featured in the landmark series The Wild Canadian Year, winner of the inaugural Rob Stewart Award for Science and Nature Documentary at the 2018 Canadian Screen Awards.
- 2017
- 00:44:59
- 13-14
- Added on: 11/09/2017
True North Calling The Future
A young woman scrambles to finish a TV show against all the hurdles the north provides, while everyone else prepares for the next season.
- 2017
- 00:21:55
- 13-14
- Added on: 05/23/2017
True North Calling New Beginnings
A TV producer in Iqaluit struggles to make a show entirely in Inuktitut as the farmers get a long-awaited addition to the farm.
- 2017
- 00:21:55
- 13-14
- Added on: 05/23/2017
Exhibitionists Exhibitionists, Season 1, Episode 9
In this episode, a film project allows two women to explore and reconcile their conflicting feminist ideals. Plus, witness a collision between punk rock and opera and hear from the artists of Medellin, Columbia as they grapple with the importance of memory.
- 2015
- 00:21:54
- 15-17
- Added on: 04/25/2017
Exhibitionists Exhibitionists, Season 1, Episode 7
Meet a young poet who tore up Instagram with a single photograph; a visual artist whose performance could be called back-breaking; and musician Peaches tells a story of when art equals danger.
- 2015
- 00:21:54
- 15-17
- Added on: 04/25/2017
Exhibitionists Exhibitionists, Season 1, Episode 5
In this episode, Exhibitionists visits artists who are tackling what gives them shivers of fear. One artist addresses the fear of moving on, a choreographer watches terrified as her work in progress is shown for the first time to a live audience, an actor faces the fear of failure, and we see an existential video about scary caves. Other artists and their ...
- 2015
- 00:21:54
- 13-14
- Added on: 04/25/2017
Exhibitionists Exhibitionists, Season 1, Episode 4
The theme for Episode 4 is wanderlust. David Trevelyan talks about his mask-making and sculpture in Bali; House of Venus founder Michael Venus discusses his films, culture and wearable-art headpieces. Gemini-nominated actress and producer Jennifer Podemski explains how she turns travelling for work into an opportunity for creative development. Also highlighted: Anick La Bissonniere, Owen Pallett and the students of ...
- 2015
- 00:21:50
- 13-14
- Added on: 11/14/2016
Cross Country Checkup Art and reconciliation
The Secret Path is a powerful film about an Indigenous boy who dies escaping a residential school. Does art — films, books and music — offer the best path to heal historical wrongs? Guests include Joseph Boyden, award-winning author of Three Day Road, The Orenda and most recently the novella Wenjack; Susan Aglukark, Inuk singer and songwriter; Ry Moran, Director of the National Centre for ...
- 2016
- 01:53:03
- 13-14
- Added on: 11/10/2016
Exhibitionists Exhibitionists, Season 1, Episode 2
This episode on resistance opens with Salman Rushdie reading selected lyrics from hip hop icon Drake and street dance crew BUCC N FLVR shows off their krumping moves. Plus video collective The Creators Bureau looks at how people from battle-scarred parts of the world talk about how important movies were to them.
- 2015
- 00:21:49
- 13-14
- Added on: 11/08/2016
Exhibitionists Exhibitionists, Season 1, Episode 1
Exploring the theme of "beginnings," this episode profiles St. John's filmmaker Stephen Dunn whose film Closet Monster won the Best Canadian Feature Film at TIFF; flamenco dancer Anjelica Scannura and contemporary dancer Malgorzata Nowacka, who have combined their styles in Bird Bee Bat Attack; artist Takashi Iwasaki in Winnipeg; En Masse, a Montreal based multi-artist collaboration; choreographer/director Lenny DeLa Pena; and GIF ...
- 2015
- 00:21:40
- 15-17
- Added on: 09/19/2016
Ideas Wachtel on the Arts: Agnieszka Holland
From her Oscar-nominated Holocaust films, Europa, Europa and In Darkness, to her most recent work about Soviet repression in Czechoslovakia, Agnieszka Holland focuses on the unconventional human stories that illuminate larger historical events. But that wasn’t always her plan. She was born in 1948, the year Stalinism took hold in Poland. Her mother was Catholic and her father Jewish — ...
- 2013
- 00:53:57
- 15-17
- Added on: 09/19/2014
CBC Animation Abracadabra
The film is an allegorical tale cautioning against the dangers of exhausting an indispensable natural resource, here represented by the sun. Frédéric Back has long believed that animation for children should deliver a message in an entertaining manner.
- 1970
- 00:09:21
- 5-8
- Added on: 02/11/2014
CBC Animation Crac!
In this charming tale tinged with nostalgia, Frédéric Back takes us back to rich traditions swept aside by the relentless forces of progress and urbanization. Crac! is the sound of a falling tree, chopped down to make the chair. It's the sound of the chair as it rocks. It's also the sound of the rift in our lives when change ...
- 1981
- 00:15:01
- 5-8
- Added on: 01/14/2014
CBC Animation All Nothing
For too long, we have held the mistaken belief that the world was created entirely for our benefit. As countless plant and animal species become extinct, our generous planet has little left to offer: clean water and lush forests are becoming increasingly rare. The film ends, however, on a positive note: Frédéric Back cherishes the hope that future generations will ...
- 1978
- 00:10:59
- 5-8
- Added on: 12/07/2013
CBC Animation Taratata!
"These parades were an occasion to honour traditional values or demonstrate progress by way of allegorical floats. Presented each year on June 24 in cities and towns all over Quebec, they gave local musicians and brass bands a chance to display their talents. Children adored the pageant with its splendid uniforms. The day would end with a great fireworks display. ...
- 1976
- 00:08:32
- 5-8
- Added on: 12/07/2013
CBC Animation Inon or the Conquest of Fire
In this film inspired by an Algonquin legend, fire is kept from humankind by Inon, the God of Thunder. The animals set off to capture the god's fire and bring it back to their human counterparts. The story is set at a time when humans and animals understood each other and lived in harmony with nature.
- 1971
- 00:09:35
- 5-8
- Added on: 10/15/2013
CBC Animation The Creation of Birds
The beautiful days of summer come to a sudden end as the children flee before Howling Wolf, the terrible wind of the cold. They take shelter in the forest. Howling Wolf strips the trees of their beautiful coloured leaves, but is unable to find the children hiding among the evergreens. So he joins forces with White Bear, the snow, to ...
- 1972
- 00:10:04
- 5-8
- Added on: 10/15/2013
CBC Animation Illusion?
"Every flower, every insect, every animal is a miracle waiting to be discovered, a marvel to be respected and loved. But we like to replace them with our own inventions, served up by the magicians of advertising, the promoters of progress and over-consumption. Unfortunately, these inventions are outmoded all too quickly. They break down, often taking with them that which ...
- 1975
- 00:11:30
- 5-8
- Added on: 10/08/2013
Long métrage El Hombre que Plantaba Arboles (Español / Spanish / Espagnol)
This is the Spanish version of The Man Who Planted Trees. 2012 marked the 25th anniversary of the Oscar® win for The Man Who Planted Trees. Frédéric Back’s previous Oscar® win for Crac! allowed him to fulfill his dream of bringing Jean Giono's wonderful story to the screen. Its environmental message and philosophy of life reflect the concerns already addressed by Back in his ...
- 1987
- 00:31:02
- General
- Added on: 06/14/2013
CBC Animation The Man Who Planted Trees
2012 marked the 25th anniversary of the Oscar® win for The Man Who Planted Trees. Frédéric Back’s previous Oscar® win for Crac! allowed him to fulfill his dream of bringing Jean Giono's wonderful story to the screen. Its environmental message and philosophy of life reflect the concerns already addressed by Back in his previous films. The seeds that the shepherd plants are the ...
- 1987
- 00:30:30
- General
- Added on: 06/14/2013
The Dawn of the Eye: The History of Film and TV News Eyes of the World: 1919-1945
At first, Hollywood studios present sanitized news, presenting a world without Nazis or the Depression. The newsreel is revolutionized by The March of Time which established the standards the industry still works by today. World War II was as much a contest of news machines as of armies, battling for public opinion. A Canadian cameraman scoops the world with moving ...
- 1997
- 00:55:01
- 13-14
- Added on: 06/14/2013
