The introduction written by director Fred Glass: “Tax the rich: An animated fairy tale, is narrated by Ed Asner, with animation by Mike Konopacki. Written and directed by Fred Glass for the California Federation of Teachers. An 8 minute video about how we arrived at this moment of poorly funded public services and widening economic…
Watch All 8 Harry Potter Movies in 13 Minutes
Think it’s impossible to watch all 8 Harry Potter movies on your lunch break or for your children to watch them all before bed? Not anymore it isn’t. This retrospective, apparently produced to coincide with the release of the Harry Potter Collection due for release tomorrow (September 7) has crammed together the important moments from…
Watch All 8 Harry Potter Movies in 13 Minutes
Think it’s impossible to watch all 8 Harry Potter movies on your lunch break or for your children to watch them all before bed? Not anymore it isn’t. This retrospective, apparently produced to coincide with the release of the Harry Potter Collection due for release tomorrow (September 7) has crammed together the important moments from…
Sight : A great, minimalist, sci-fi short
The great thing about Sight is that, as Cory Doctorow points out on Boing Boing, technology isn’t a “larger-than-life operatic prop” but rather a natural, organic part of the film. It also deviates from what many consider sci-fi in that there are no aliens, no space ships, no lasers or fight scenes or threats to…
Sight : A great, minimalist, sci-fi short
The great thing about Sight is that, as Cory Doctorow points out on Boing Boing, technology isn’t a “larger-than-life operatic prop” but rather a natural, organic part of the film. It also deviates from what many consider sci-fi in that there are no aliens, no space ships, no lasers or fight scenes or threats to…
The Railrodder
The Railrodder is a NFB short film starring silent film icon Buster Keaton (in one of his final roles) .
NFB Films Go Online for Free
The National Film Board has launched a 1.3 million dollar project to make it’s films available online through streaming according to a report by the CBC. “Oscar winners such as 1952’s Neighbours, 1977’s I’ll Find a Way and 2004’s Ryan are among the more than 700 films now available for screening online at NFB.ca…”This is…
Boost – Another Finalist: Monday Morning
It appears that I was wrong when I said that White Collar criminals was the only Canadian finalist in YouTube’s Project Direct. So out of fairness here is the other Monday Morning – again the shorts with the most votes will get a screening at the Sundance Film Festival. So please watch, rate and comment…
RVT: I Met the Walrus
Nominated for an Academy Award and winner of Best Animated Short at the American Film Institute, I Met the Walrus was directed by Josh Raskin and was produced by Jerry Levitan. It is based on an interview that Levitan had with John Lennon in 1969. The audio for the film is the actual recording of…
NFB Cuts 22 Jobs
Via Art Threat: As part of it’s ongoing campaign against art, culture, free speech, thought and expression and the uncontrolled flow of information the Conservative Government, in March, slashed $2.5 million from the budget of the National Film Board. As a result the NFB, which over the years has received 90 Genie Awards and 69…