NFB Mediatheque in Toronto, Ontario, Canada

NFB Mediatheque invites you to the following three screening events during this week:

FOUR WINGS AND A PRAYER: FREE screening at NFB Mediatheque

FREE FAVOURITES AT FOUR presents

FOUR WINGS AND A PRAYER

Wednesday, January 4 at 4 PM

FREE

“This documentary looks at one of the world’s most beautiful and mysterious creatures: the monarch butterfly. This creature represents a powerful mix of scientific marvel, awesome beauty and epic struggle for survival. What scientists are at a loss to fully explain is how the monarch makes a seemingly impossible 3000 kilometre journey from Canada—over mountains, through storms and across large bodies of water—to its small and remote wintering grounds in the mountains of Mexico. Based on the book by Sue Halpern.“

Waking the Green Tiger: Screening at NFB Mediatheque

Green Screens Presents

Waking the Green Tiger

Wednesday, January 4 at 7 PM

Presented in Mandarin and English,
With English Subtitles, 78 Minutes

Followed by a discussion with Gary Marcuse (Writer, Director & Producer of Waking the Green Tiger) and Weiwei Su of WWF Canada

NEW PRICE: $5

Presented by Planet in Focus and the NFB Mediatheque.

Fresh Restaurant will be giving away a FREE cookbook. Ticket holders will receive 15% off take-out at Fresh Restaurant’s Spadina location.

“By declaring that nature must be conquered in the name of progress, Chairman Mao ushered in an era of environmental degradation for China. Seen through the eyes of activists, farmers and journalists, Waking the Green Tiger follows an extraordinary campaign to stop a huge dam project on the Upper Yangtze River in southwestern China. Waking the Green Tiger is an inspired look at the new environmental movement in China.”

Please click here to see the trailer of Waking the Green Tiger.

Dans le ventre du moulin (The Image Mill Revealed): FREE Screening at NFB Mediatheque

cine-jeudi presents

Dans le ventre du moulin
(The Image Mill Revealed)

Thursday, January 5 at 7:30 PM

FREE

Presented in French with English Subtitles,
72 Minutes

Presented in partnership with Alliance française de Toronto, Cinéfranco and le Theatre francais de Toronto.

“This documentary describes the final three months leading up to the opening of The Image Mill by Robert Lepage and Ex Machina, an impressionistic performance-event of epic dimensions. To build this monumental historical panorama by blending different genres, a group of the most talented and creative young people have been invited to achieve something very extraordinary.”

Please click here for more info about Dans le ventre du moulin (The Image Mill Revealed).

Location for the Above Three Events:

NFB Mediatheque
150 John Street (at Richmond Street West)
Toronto, Ontario, M5V 3C3
416-973-3012

Enjoy!

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You're Invited: NFB’s Annual Cross-Canada Animation Celebration

Get Animated! is “NFB’s annual cross-Canada animation celebration, bringing you some of Canada’s finest (and funniest!) animated films.

The NFB, in partnership with a number of community organizations across the country, is bringing the magic of animation to over a dozen cities through two exclusive screening programs, including one for families.

Get Animated! marks International Animation Day with an amazing selection of films: from boldly experimental to flat-out funny, there’s something for everyone. Add workshops that show you how to make your own animated films and meet-the-director sessions, and you’ve got a truly irresistible series of events—all absolutely free. So come join us and get animated!”

Enjoy the following FREE events:

• Screenings
  1. NFB New Releases (80 mins) give you “an eclectic collection of entertaining new animation films, ranging from the whimsical to the experimental
  2. Family Program (45 mins) is a fun-filled selection of NFB films, featuring some of the NFB’s newest animation for kids of all ages

• Master classes
  • animation directors screen their films and share their insights in this series of master classes

• Meet the directors
  • Want to know what life is like behind the camera?
  • Meet acclaimed animation directors, learn about their techniques and ask your own questions.
  • In select cities, the NFB’s New Releases programs will be followed by Meet the Directors sessions. Celebrated animation directors will be available to take questions from the audience and to discuss the art of animation.

•  Animation workshops across Canada
  
  • HANDS-ON ANIMATION WORKSHOPS – MAKE YOUR OWN ANIMATED FILM
  • Hands-on workshops will accompany the Family Program in Vancouver, Richmond, Prince George, Yellowknife, Winnipeg, Toronto, Montreal, Charlottetown and Whitehorse.
  • These workshops will demonstrate the basics of animation and give you the chance to make your own short animated film!”

Please click on the following links to see the Get Animated! schedule for dates and times of the above celebratory events happening this week across Canada:

• Alberta

• British Columbia

• Manitoba

• New Brunswick

• Newfoundland

• Northwest Territories

• Nova Scotia

• Nunavut

• Ontario

• Prince Edward Island

• Quebec

• Saskatchewan

• Yukon

Please click here for more info about the NFB New Releases Screenings (PDF, 3 Mb).

Also, please click here for more info about the Family Program Screenings (PDF, 709 Kb).

By the way, in Toronto there is also the FREE Green Screens event coming up this week.

GREEN SCREENS presents QIMMIT: A CLASH OF TWO TRUTHS

NFB MEDIATHEQUE
Wednesday, November 2, 2011 at 7:00 PM

FREE

“For the Inuit, the sled dog symbolized a way of life as well as a deep connection to the land. They depended upon the dogs for hunting, transportation and companionship: They were essential to survival. But from the 1950s to the 1970s, the sled dog population dropped from an estimated 20,000 to just a few hundred dogs. Many Inuit believe the dogs were deliberately killed by the RCMP as part of a government policy to force them off the land – and into “civilization.”

Qimmit: A Clash of Two Truths explores the mystery of how and why the sled dogs disappeared, a mystery that has left deep wounds across Canada’s Arctic.”

Note: There is some graphic content, not suitable for children.

Location: 150 John Street, Toronto ON, M5V 3C3; Phone: 416-973-3012

Please click here for more info about Qimmit: A Clash of Two Truths.

“It’s a really heart-wrenching film about the disappearance of the entire sled dog community in the Arctic – for anyone interested in dogs, animal rights and Indigenous culture.“

Contact Info

CUSTOMER SERVICE
From anywhere in Canada:
1-800-267-7710
From Montreal and region
514-283-9000
We are ready to take your call Monday to Friday 9:00 am – 7:00 pm (Eastern Time).

You're Invited: NFB Mediatheque's Green Screens, Films & Animation Workshops

NFB Mediatheque in Toronto, Ontario, Canada provides the following films screenings and animation events for FREE or at affordable admission costs:

• Summer Weekend Fun at the NFB- Summer Saturdays:  This Saturday, August 27: THE VANISHING ALIEN (3D CLAY ANIMATION) – “Join us for some extraterrestrial animation that’s truly out of this world!”
  • 12:00 pm – 12:30 pm: Screening program
  • 12:30 pm – 2:30 pm: Animation workshop for children ages 6 to 13
  • Admission cost is $5 per child / session – adult(s), at no extra charge, must accompany children
  • For information and registration, please call 416-973-3012

• FAME BY FRAME: Drop-in pixilation workshops!
  • FREE
  • Saturdays and Sundays – 12 PM to 5 PM
  • Drop-in and make pixilated movies in the NFB Mediatheque’s interactive lounge space
  • No reservations necessary & available for birthday parties
  • This Saturday & Sunday, August 27 & 28 : STREET PERFORMERS – Costumes and props included: all ages welcome
  • Please click here for the schedule of themes from August to October, 2011

• Cine-Jeudi (a monthly series of French screenings): The First Thursday of Every Month:
  • At these affordable admission costs: $6, $4 for students, seniors, members and passholders
  • Please note that there will be no English subtitles on these French films at the Cine-Jeudi
  • The first Cine-Jeudi screening will present, on Thursday, September 1 at 7:30 PM, the Toronto Premiere of Terre et chocolat preceded by Animastress
  • October 6 2011: ON ME PREND POUR UNE CHINOISE! (They Think I’m Chinese!)
  • November 3 2011: POUR LA CAUSE (For the Cause)
  • December 1 2011:  LES FROS (The Lumberfros)
  • January 5 2012: DANS LE VENTRE DU MOULIN (The Image Mill Revealed)

• Green Screens: First Wednesday of Every Month
  • FREE
  • September also marks the return of NFB Mediatheque’s popular, eco-friendly film series, Green Screens.
  • EARTH KEEPERS on Wednesday, September 7 at 7 PM
  • October 5 2011: FORCE OF NATURE: THE DAVID SUZUKI MOVIE
  • November 2 2011: QIMMIT: A CLASH OF TWO TRUTHS
• FREE FAVOURITES AT FOUR: Every Wednesday at 4 pm:

  You’re Invited: NFB Mediatheque’s Green Screens, Films & Animation Workshops

  • Please click here for the detailed list of screenings from August 31 – November 30, 2011

• CAN’T SIT STILL and ANIMATE THIS!: The first weekend of every month
  • NFB Mediathque’s animation workshops for children ages 3 to 13
  • Each month offers a new animation technique and theme.
  • Please click here for the detailed list of monthly animation workshops for families from September to November
  • ONLY $5 PER CHILD. Adults take part at no extra charge
  • For registration, please call 416-973-3012

Location and Contact Info:

MEDIATHEQUE
150 John Street
Toronto, Ontario, M5V 3C3
416-973-3012

Enjoy!

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Affordable Animation Workshops for You!

For you and your friends, there is a great Green Screens event this Wednesday at the NFB Cinema.

November 3rd at 7 PM

FREE ADMISSION

NFB Cinema – 150 John St, Toronto, Ontario Canada

Directed by Marie-Monique Robin, 2008, 109 min

Green Screens partners films from the National Film Board of Canada (NFB) with experts and panellists selected by the Canadian Institute for Environmental Law and Policy (CIELAP)

A panel discussion will follow the screening on the topic of biotechnology and genetically modified organisms (GMOs), with Anne Mitchell, CIELAP’s former Executive Director, who was previously a representative on the Canadian Biotechnology Advisory Committee and is a member of the Biotechnology Reference Group of the Canadian Council of Churches; and Pinayur Rajagopal, who worked at the Max Planck Institute in Munich before coming to teach at York University in Toronto.  The two are working on a pamphlet on agricultural biotechnology to be published by the Quaker Institute for the Future.

Director Marie-Monique Robin conducted a painstaking three year investigation on Monsanto in North and South America, Europe and Asia in order to make ‘The World According To Monsanto’ film.

‘The World According to Monsanto’ film depicts “Monsanto’s quest for market supremacy, to the detriment of global food security and environmental stability.”

Here is a brief bio with shocking revelations of Monsanto:

• founded in 1901 as a chemical company in St. Louis, Missouri, USA
• has 17,500 employees
• 2006 sales figure of $7.5 billion
• operations in 46 countries
• world leader in genetically modified organisms (GMOs)
• one of the most controversial corporations in industrial history
• since 1901, faced trial after trial due to the toxicity of its products
• toxic products include polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs), polystyrene, devastating herbicides like Agent Orange, used during the Vietnam War, and bovine growth hormones, which are unauthorized in Canada and banned in Europe
• has “reinvented itself as a “life sciences” company converted to the virtues of sustainable development”

‘The World According to Monsanto’ points out that “thanks to its genetically modified seeds engineered among other things to withstand Monsanto’s Roundup, the world’s bestselling herbicide, the company claims it wants to solve world hunger while reducing environmental damage. Where does the truth lie?”

Watch ‘The World According To Monsanto’, and then join the conversation. What you think is the truth behind the controversy? Do you think Monsanto exploits environment and nature in our world for bigger business profits? We would love to hear from you in our comments section below.

Please click here to see the trailer for ‘The World According To Monsanto’ because what matters to Monsanto matters to us from dioxin to genetically modified crops.

Toronto Mediatheque

At the NFB (National Film Board of Canada) Mediatheque in Toronto, Ontario, Canada,  the following free Green Screens  event will occur:

FREE

GREEN SCREENS presents WORST CASE SCENARIO

September 1 at 7 pm

Location:
NFB  Mediatheque
150 John Street
Toronto, Ontario, M5V 3C3
416-973-3012

Also, you can watch 5,500 NFB films, all for free, all the time on the Internet

Green Screens is a monthly program at the NFB Mediatheque which highlights a different environmental issue each month, in partnership with the  Canadian Institute for Environmental Law and Policy (CIELAP). The NFB Mediatheque selects the NFB (National Film Board of Canada) films to screen, and the Canadian Institute for Environmental Law and Policy  provides the panellists and experts.

If you are interested in the environment, Green Screens will entertain and inform you!

Local Farm Food in Green Ontario

Green Screens is a monthly program at the NFB Mediatheque which highlights a different environmental issue each month, in partnership with CIELAP – Canadian Institute for Environmental Law and Policy - (local farm food practices being one such example). The NFB Mediatheque selects the NFB (National Film Board of Canada) films to screen, and CIELAP provides the panellists.

On Wednesday, July 7th, Green Screens presented a free film event which included the feature film, Earth to Mouth, a panel discussion about the importance of supporting local farmers in Ontario, Canada, and a reception which followed the screening.

The panel discussion of Green Screens featured Wally Seccombe, Chair, Everdale: Organic Farm & Environmental Learning Centre, and Susan Murray, Director of Communications, Greenbelt Foundation. Samples of local food were provided by Karma Cooperative.

Green Screens entertained and informed us about Green Ontario as shown in the following SweetLoveable Videos (Part 1 and Part 2).  Thank you Jennifer, Melissa and Kate for your valuable help in the production of  the following Green Screens for Green Ontario.

Part 1:

Part 2:

GREEN SCREENS presents

HOMEGROWN FILMS at the NFB Cinema
Wednesday, July 7

at 7 PM – FREE ADMISSION

A program in Toronto, Ontario, that highlights the importance of sustainable agriculture and celebrates local food practices. A panel discussion and reception follow the screening – sample local produce and discuss the importance of supporting local farmers in Ontario, Canada.

Featuring:

Earth to Mouth
Directed by Yung Chang, 2002, 41 min
Filmed at the Wing Fong Farm in Ontario, this documentary follows the tilling, planting and harvesting of Asian vegetables destined for Chinese markets and restaurants.

The panel discussion will feature Wally Seccombe, Chair, Everdale Farms; Lauren Baker, Director, Sustain Ontario; and Susan Murray, Director of Communications, Greenbelt Foundation. Samples of local food will be provided by Karma Cooperative.

Green Screens partners films from the NFB with experts and panellists selected by the Canadian Institute for Environmental Law and Policy (CIELAP). If you are interested in the environment, Green Screens will entertain and inform you!

NFB MEDIATHEQUE | 150 John St., Toronto | 416-973-3012 | NFB.ca/mediatheque