Distribution Catalogue 2014-2015

DISTRIBUTION CATALOGUE 2014-2015

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LORNE PRICE Head, Sales and Digital Distribution 3 TABLE CONTENTS OF ENVIRONMENT 6 Bad Coyote 7 Fort McMoney: The Film 7 The Fruit Hunters 7 Meltdown 8 Rainforest: The Limit of Splendour 8 The Wings of Johnny May 8 Two Inuit Lives

FEATURE 9 Imagined States of America 10 Stories We Tell 10 The Wanted 18 TABLE OF 11 Triptych HISTORY CONTENTS Atanasoff: The Father of the Computer 12 13 Exile: A Myth Unearthed

JUSTICE 14 The Coca-Cola Case 15 Prosecutor 15 Silence Is Gold 16 Trick or Treaty? 16 Wiebo’s War

4 TABLE CONTENTS OF TABLE CONTENTS OF MUSIC & ARTS SOCIETY ANIMATION 17 Maria Chapdelaine 27 Alphée of the Stars 36 Big Trees 18 Norman McLaren: Animated Musician 28 Ariel 37 Bus Story 18 My Prairie Home 28 Chi 37 The End of Pinky 19 Seth’s Dominion 28 Everything Will Be 37 Flocons 19 The Short Apology of Albert Batch 29 Guidelines 38 The Fox and the Chickadee 19 Wavemakers 29 Hue: A Matter of Colour 38 Gloria Victoria 29 Little Big Girls 38 Hollow Land 30 NCR: Not Criminally Responsible 39 Impromptu SHORTS 30 Out of Mind, Out of Sight 39 Mary & Myself 30 Where I’m From 39 Minotaur 20 54 Hours 40 Monsieur Pug 21 Anatomy 40 Naughty to Nice 21 CODA 40 No Fish Where to Go 21 ORA SPORTS 41 Pilots on the Way Home 22 The Devil’s Toy 31 The Boxing Girls of Kabul 41 Rainy Days 22 Home-Cooked Music 32 Legend of a Warrior 41 A Sea Turtle Story 22 Island Green 32 Mighty Jerome 42 Soif 23 Jutra 32 Secretariat’s Jockey, Ron Turcotte 42 Soup of the Day 23 Letters from Pyongyang 42 The Weatherman and the Shadowboxer 24 Science at the Top of the World 43 Subconscious Password 24 Song for Cuba COMING SOON 43 Third Page from the Sun 25 A Short History of the Highrise: 33 Angry Inuk Part One: Mud 34 The Danny Project Part Two: Concrete 34 Grassroots in Dry Lands Part Three: Glass INTERACTIVE 34 Hadwin’s Judgement Part Four: Home 44 Bubble Dancers 35 Uyghurs: Prisoners of the Absurd 26 Stories from Our Land 2.0: 45 The Devil’s Toy Redux 35 The Wall Strength, Flexibility and Endurance 46 The Faith Project Taking Shape 46 Fort McMoney The Vending Machine 46 Highrise Finding Home 47 Making Movie History: A Portrait in 61 Parts 47 Seven Digital Deadly Sins

47 Similkameen Crossroads 5 ENVIRONMENT

ENVIRONMENT BAD COYOTE

Rural, Wildlife

A hybrid type of coyote, thought to be part wolf, has migrated to Eastern Canada. The deadly mauling of a young woman, panicked media coverage and alleged sightings prompt the government to issue a controversial bounty for dead coyotes. Bad Coyote offers a trenchant analysis of the politics – and the price – of living and playing close to nature.

60 min | Jason Young NFB 6 ENVIRONMENT ENVIRONMENT

FORT MCMONEY: THE FRUIT HUNTERS MELTDOWN THE FILM

Economics Food, History, Society Disaster, Science

This film introduces Jim Rogers: trapper, The Fruit Hunters tells a story of adventure, desire March 11, 2011. Japan is hit with the fifth-strongest Fort McMurray native and unsuccessful candidate and obsession, accompanying fruit fanatics as they earthquake ever recorded. But the real legacy of this in the last municipal elections, which saw his home hunt for mangos in Bali or elusive rare durian in disaster is the ensuing nuclear accident – power plant become a modern gold rush town. Much more Borneo, scour Renaissance paintings for ancient, engineers try, and fail, to avert catastrophe. This is than the linear version of the Fort McMoney web lost figs, and uncover the secrets of the taste-bud- the story of a chain of errors that led to the nightmare experience, this doc is its actual result and mirror, altering Miracle Fruit. of nuclear meltdown. offering a reflection on democracy in ruins.

Related: see INTERACTIVE section. GRAND PRIZE INTERNATIONAL ENVIRONMENTAL FILM FESTIVAL PARIS, 2013

RAINFOREST: THE WINGS OF TWO INUIT LIVES THE LIMIT OF JOHNNY MAY SPLENDOUR

Aboriginal 3D, Aboriginal, Biography Aboriginal

Inspired by his relationship with a Kwaxkwaka’wakw Johnny May, the first Inuit bush pilot, is a legend This companion film toThe Wings of Johnny May elder, filmmaker Richard Boyce embarks on a among his people. While famous for his aerial exploits, looks at the language and culture of the Inuit. cinematic journey to an ancient Canadian rainforest. he has also witnessed the twin upheavals of the Inuit’s Travelling to the most remote corner of Vancouver adoption of sedentary life and the effects of climate Island, through some of the most intensive logging change on the North. This airborne documentary areas on the planet, Boyce leads us into a wilderness sweeps into the northern skies to discover a unique that is on the brink of extinction. culture through the eyes of an exceptional man.

IMAGINED STATES FEATURE OF AMERICA

Arts, Photography

Imagined States of America takes on the nation’s myths to get to the heart of a country that continues to fascinate the world. Inspired by Pierre Guimond’s photo collages, and incorporating an intricately built soundscape, the film resembles a dream on the verge of a nightmare, revealing an America that is rich in paradoxes.

86 min • 60 min | Alberta Nokes 8 Les Films de l’Isle | NFB 9 FEATURE

STORIES WE TELL THE WANTED 18

Cinema, Society Human Rights, Middle East

In this genre-twisting film, Oscar®-nominated writer/director Sarah Polley discovers that the truth depends upon Soon after the dawn of the 1987 Palestinian uprising, who is telling it. This deeply personal work considers how narratives shape us as individuals and families while residents of the town of Beit Sahour secretly bought also exploring the elusive nature of memory. The result is a funny and poignant picture of the larger human story. 18 cows from an Israeli kibbutz. Documenting this seemingly small act of resistance – one that allowed Palestinians to provide milk for their children – The Wanted 18 encompasses comedy, drama and absurd tragedy.

FOCUS GRAND PRIZE BEST DOCUMENTARY FILM BEST DOCUMENTARY FILM FESTIVAL DU INTERNATIONAL FILM INTERNATIONAL NOUVEAU CINÉMA FESTIVAL BRATISLAVA CINEPHILE SOCIETY MONTRÉAL, 2012 BRATISLAVA, 2013 NEW YORK, 2014

108 min | Sarah Polley 75 min | Paul Cowan; Amer Shomali NFB Intuitive Pictures Inc. | NFB 10 FEATURE FEATURE

TRIPTYCH

Cinema, Fiction

Inspired by Robert Lepage’s play Lipsynch, Triptych RELATED CONTENT: Thomas is a contemporary urban saga following Michelle Thomas is a prominent neurosurgeon struggling (Lise Castonguay), a schizophrenic bookseller, Marie Marie to conceal his existential torment. (Frédérike Bédard), a singer and actress, and Thomas Marie is a spirited jazz singer living with BEST DRAMA (Hans Piesbergen), a German neurologist. Depicting a brain tumour. YORKTON FILM FESTIVAL three destinies that cross and resonate, Triptych is a YORKTON, 2014 sensitive and deeply moving contemplation of memory Michelle and identity. Michelle is a schizophrenic who returns to work in a bookstore after being discharged from a SPECIAL MENTION BERLIN INTERNATIONAL psychiatric institution. FILM FESTIVAL BERLIN, 2014 3 x 30 min | Robert Lepage; Pedro Pires 10 NFB 11 HISTORY

ATANASOFF: HISTORY THE FATHER OF THE COMPUTER

Biography, Science

Significant inventions tend to make their creators famous. Most people know who invented the telephone, the light bulb and the airplane. But what about the digital computer? Who invented one of the most important devices in human history?

52 min | Mila Aung-Thwin; Daniel Cross EyeSteelFilm Inc. 12 HISTORY HISTORY

EXILE: A MYTH UNEARTHED

Archaeology, Middle East, Society

The exile of the Jewish people from their homeland following the destruction of the Second Temple has long played a central role in Christian and Jewish theology, and has been a critical factor in the struggle over land in the Middle East. This provocative documentary asks what it would mean if that exile never actually happened.

90 min • 2 x 52 min • 59 min | Ilan Ziv Amythos Media | Alegria Productions | NFB 13 JUSTICE

JUSTICE THE COCA-COLA CASE

Human Rights, Investigative

In Colombia, an estimated 470 workers’ leaders have been brutally killed, many by paramilitaries hired by private companies intent on crushing the unions. Accompanying American activists David Kovalik, Terry Collingsworth and Ray Rogers as they embark on an ambitious legal crusade against a major corporation, The Coca-Cola Case depicts a battle that reaches all the way from Colombia to Washington.

SPECIAL MENTION INTERNATIONAL ENVIRONMENTAL FILM FESTIVAL PARIS, 2010 86 min • 52 min | Carmen Garcia; German Gutierrez Argus Films Inc. | NFB 14 JUSTICE JUSTICE

PROSECUTOR SILENCE IS GOLD

Human Rights, Politics Human Rights, Investigative

A fascinating film boasting extraordinary access This documentary thriller charts the proceedings when mining companies Barrick Gold and Banro launch to its subject, Prosecutor follows the controversial defamation lawsuits against writer Alain Deneault, his co-authors and publisher Les Éditions Écosociété following Luis Moreno Ocampo through the International the 2008 publication of the book Noir Canada. Criminal Court’s first trials – trials that will determine whether the ICC is a historic new weapon for global justice or just an idealistic dream.

SPECIAL MENTION MONTREAL INTERNATIONAL DOCUMENTARY FESTIVAL MONTRÉAL, 2012

92 min • 57 min | Barry Stevens 74 min | Julien Fréchette White Pine Pictures | NFB MC2 Communication Média | NFB 15 JUSTICE

TRICK OR TREATY? WIEBO’S WAR

Aboriginal, Human Rights Environment, Human Rights, Investigative

The new work from acclaimed filmmaker Alanis Obomsawin examines the legacy of Treaty #9 (which covers In the 1990s, Wiebo Ludwig and his extended family First Nations communities in the area of James Bay, Ontario) in light of recent activism, including the journey discovered that their Alberta farm sat atop one of of the Nishiyuu walkers and the Idle No More marches. the largest undeveloped fields of natural gas on the continent. As wells were drilled around them, the isolationist Christian community began to suffer health problems. This fascinating documentary explores one man’s controversial battle with the oil and gas industry.

SPECIAL MENTION MONTREAL INTERNATIONAL DOCUMENTARY FESTIVAL MONTREAL, 2011

84 min | Alanis Obomsawin 93 min • 52 min | David York NFB 52 Media Inc. | NFB 16 JUSTICE & ARTS MUSIC

MUSIC MARIA CHAPDELAINE & ARTS

Cinema, History

In 1934, French director Julien Duvivier shot the feature Maria Chapdelaine in Péribonka, Quebec. Starring French cinema icon Jean Gabin and Madeleine Renaud, the film went on to win the Grand Prix du cinéma français. Now, celebrated Quebecois filmmaker Jean-Claude Labrecque is revisiting Duvivier’s classic in a documentary essay that will not only shed light on the making of the film but also reflect on broader themes such as the art of cinema and Quebecois culture.

52 min | Jean-Claude Labrecque NFB 17 MUSIC & ARTS MUSIC

NORMAN MCLAREN: MY PRAIRIE HOME ANIMATED MUSICIAN

Experimental, Shorts Diversity

This short documentary explores legendary NFB This intimate portrait of transgender singer Rae Spoon is as personal and reflective as the acclaimed musician’s filmmaker Norman McLaren’s discovery of synthetic songs. Set against a backdrop of stunning images, the film leads viewers on a poetic journey through landscapes music and his subsequent creation of compositions both real and emotional as it captures the unique spirit of this unforgettable artist. via three methods: hand-drawn sound, hand-etched sound and photographed sound. Using texts, photographs, audio recordings and demo work by McLaren himself, the film reveals his unusual film-scoring methods as well as his musical work outside the sphere of filmmaking. BEST CANADIAN DOCUMENTARY VANCOUVER FILM CRITICS CIRCLE AWARDS VANCOUVER, 2014

30 min | Donald McWilliams 77 min | Chelsea McMullan NFB NFB 18 MUSIC & ARTS MUSIC & ARTS MUSIC

SETH’S DOMINION THE SHORT APOLOGY WAVEMAKERS OF ALBERT BATCH

Biography, Humour History

Cartoonist Seth, acclaimed for comic books including This short documentary adapts Seth’s puppet A modern-day journey set against its historical Palookaville, is one of the art form’s great storytellers. play, The Apology of Albert Batch, for the screen. background, this documentary pursues the legacy He is highly prolific, creating poignant personal Seth performs his creation, introducing us to cartoonist of an extraordinary electronic musical instrument, observations of his inner life as well as award-winning Albert Batch, who is nearing the end of his days. the ondes Martenot. Integrating vérité camerawork, commercial and editorial projects. This documentary archival footage and an entrancing soundtrack, mixes insightful biography with vivid animation to Wavemakers shadows an ensemble of aficionados channel the evocative style of one of our most (including Radiohead’s Jonny Greenwood) as they seek unique artists. to unravel the instrument’s mysteries.

GOLDEN ATHENA AWARD ATHENS INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL ATHENS, 2013 42 min | Luc Chamberland 6 min | Luc Chamberland 97 min | Caroline Martel NFB NFB productions artifact | NFB 19 SHORTS

SHORTS 54 HOURS

Disaster, History

54 Hours vividly recreates the 1914 tragedy in which 132 seal hunters were stranded on the ice during a severe snowstorm off the coast of Newfoundland, leading to the freezing deaths of 78 men.

14 min | Bruce Alcock; Paton Francis NFB 20 SHORTS SHORTS

ANATOMY CODA ORA

Aging 3D, Dance, Experimental

Subverting the clichés associated with elderly people, This digital dance film is highly innovative in its The use of cutting-edge 3D thermal imaging this short film focuses on the connection between aesthetic signature and in the technological tools technology results in a stunning sensory experience two octogenarians whose fascinating relationship used to create it. By using MoCap (motion capture) as six dancers with luminous bodies set off to discover acquires a universal significance. techniques to manipulate particles of light, Martine their world. Époque and Denis Poulin metaphorically evoke ecological themes, presenting a modern visual reinterpretation of Igor Stravinsky’s Rite of Spring.

SPECIAL MENTION AUDIENCE AWARD HONG KONG INTERNATIONAL THESSALONIKI FILM FESTIVAL DOCUMENTARY FESTIVAL HONG KONG, 2012 THESSALONIKI, 2012

THE DEVIL’S TOY HOME-COOKED MUSIC ISLAND GREEN

Cinema, Sports Experimental, Music Environment, Food

It was frowned upon by the constabulary and After a near-death experience, a retired machinist starts Faced with the worrisome current reality of widespread disapproving adults, but the skateboard gave the making stringed instruments from unlikely materials monocropping practices, Island Green presents youngsters who mastered its technique an unrivalled like old rakes, bent pitchforks and moose antlers—and a poignant story of hope and healthy promise for sensation of speed. Filmed in 1966 on Montreal they sound amazing. Following its subject’s DIY lead, Canada’s smallest province by considering what streets, Jutra’s film not only captured the exuberance director Mike Maryniuk crafts a whimsical, folksy would happen if PEI went entirely organic. of kids revelling in freewheeling downhill locomotion, one-of-a-kind portrait. but it also helped give birth to the perennial cool of the skate film genre.

Related: see INTERACTIVE section.

15 min | Claude Jutra 10 min | Mike Maryniuk 20 min | Millefiore Clarkes Les Films Cassiopée | NFB NFB NFB 22 SHORTS SHORTS

JUTRA LETTERS FROM PYONGYANG

Arts, Biography History, Human Rights, Society

This stunning cinephile’s portrait of director As he journeys with his father in search of long-lost relatives in North Korea, filmmaker Jason Lee documents Claude Jutra is a skilful assembly of archival an emotional story of a family torn apart by the Korean War. Incorporating exclusive footage, archival footage and ingenious animated sequences. images and family photographs, this deeply personal film brings to light the tragic subject of families divided Director Marie‑Josée Saint-Pierre continues to refine by political conflict. her pursuit of a unique animated documentary form, boldly encapsulating the life and career of a cinematic giant.

GOLDEN AWARD BEST DOCUMENTARY BEST SHORT FILM ALJAZEERA INTERNATIONAL PALM SPRINGS TORONTO REEL ASIAN DOCUMENTARY FILM FESTIVAL INTERNATIONAL SHORTFEST INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL DOHA, 2013 PALM SPRINGS, 2013 TORONTO, 2013

14 min | Marie-Josée Saint-Pierre 28 min | Jason Lee MJSTP Films Inc. | NFB JSN Omnimedia 23 SHORTS

SCIENCE AT THE TOP SONG FOR CUBA OF THE WORLD

Environment, Science Experimental, Music

The Arctic is ground zero for understanding our rapidly changing environment. Working in regions where most Song for Cuba is a short documentary observing of the world’s population can only dream of going, against some of the world’s most breathtaking backdrops, a Cuban couple as they adjust to a new life as recent scientists are using space-age technology alongside on-the-ground fieldwork and traditional Inuit knowledge immigrants by summoning the music and memories to get the most detailed picture yet of the Arctic. of home.

44 min • 20 x 3 min | Patrick McGowan 8 min | Tamara Segura Cinematography Inc. NFB 24 SHORTS SHORTS

A SHORT HISTORY OF THE HIGHRISE

History, Urbanism

The four short films below are the core component A Short History of the Highrise, Part One: A Short History of the Highrise, Part Three: of A Short History of the Highrise, the latest Mud traces the roots of the residential highrise, Glass examines the recent proliferation of luxury installment of the award-winning, multiplatform from the biblical Tower of Babel to New York’s condos and the growing segregation between the rich HIGHRISE project. tenement buildings. (3 min) and poor. (3 min)

A Short History of the Highrise, Part Two: A Short History of the Highrise, Part Four: Home Related: see INTERACTIVE section Concrete explores how residential highrises and comprises images submitted by New York Times public housing featured in attempts to foster social readers, who document their lives in highrises around equality in the 20th century, both in New York City the world. (5 min) and globally. (6 min)

20 min | Katerina Cizek The New York Times | NFB 25 SHORTS

STORIES FROM OUR LAND 2.0

Aboriginal

Stories from Our Land 2.0 is the latest edition of the Strength, Flexibility and Endurance The Vending Machine National Film Board of Canada’s Aboriginal short film Inuit games were more than just fun to pass the time The story of an Inuit entrepreneur operating a lonely initiative. The resulting four short films –The Vending or a rare meeting between relatives, but they required airport vending machine in Canada’s second most Machine; Strength, Flexibility and Endurance; the athletes to be in peak physical condition to perform northerly community. (7 min) Taking Shape; and Finding Home – offer viewers these ancient feats of strength. (10 min) original and insightful perspectives on life in Nunavut. Finding Home Taking Shape Inuit filmmaker Nyla Innuksuk’s return to her Igloolik Isaci Itodli is well known in the Arctic for his pedigree birthplace is a deeply emotional journey that culminates and prowess in shaping the old rocks, often telling in the lighting of a traditional Inuit oil lamp. (10 min) taboo stories and myths of the Inuit through his creations. (10 min) 38 min NFB 26 SHORTS SOCIETY

ALPHÉE SOCIETY OF THE STARS

Diversity, Family

Hugo Latulippe crafted this documentary as a declaration of love to his daughter, Alphée, who was born with a rare and incurable genetic condition called Smith-Lemli-Opitz disorder. Alphée’s family moves to Switzerland for a year to focus on her learning abilities so that she can be integrated into a regular classroom when they return to Canada.

BEST DOCUMENTARY SPECIAL JURY PRIZE PRIX GÉMEAUX HOT DOCS MONTRÉAL, 2013 TORONTO, 2013

83 min • 52 min | Hugo Latulippe 26 Esperamos Films | NFB 27 SOCIETY

ARIEL CHI EVERYTHING WILL BE

Family Spirituality, Women Diversity, Urbanism

Ariel embodies the complicated dualism between Renowned filmmaker Anne Wheeler and beloved actor Vancouver’s Chinatown is in the midst of massive man and machine. When Ariel was 33, his legs Babz Chula take off for southern India, armed only with transformation. The community’s oldest and newest were shredded in an industrial accident, leaving a camera and the hope of making a film about a little- members discuss this shifting landscape and offer their him first haunted by the memory of his limbs, known, seemingly miraculous treatment for cancer. intimate perspectives on change, memory and legacy then obsessed with making his own prostheses. Chi is a testament to the sheer vitality with which in Julia Kwan’s vibrant documentary. Laura Bari’s documentary portrait interweaves the Chula lived her days, even the final ones. real and the dreamlike into a chronicle of the victory of the imagination over fate.

BEST SHORT DOCUMENTARY CANADIAN SCREEN AWARDS TORONTO, 2014

GUIDELINES HUE: LITTLE BIG GIRLS A MATTER OF COLOUR

Children, Family Diversity Family, Science, Sexuality

This provocative series of tableaus illustrates Director and cinematographer Vic Sarin crafts a Little Big Girls documents early-onset puberty, the occasionally trying existence of young people personal investigation into the history and often-tragic a condition that affects increasing numbers of girls. at a rural secondary school. The film’s brilliant effects of colourism: discrimination within one ethnic The causes of this phenomenon, fast becoming observational style gradually reveals the interior drama group based on differences in skin tone. Sarin travels a worldwide public health concern, may still be of adolescence, with its jarring shifts between fragility to countries in Asia, South America, the Caribbean misunderstood, but the physical, psychological and reckless abandon. and Africa to explore this complex cross-cultural social and psychosocial repercussions on the children issue in this thoughtful and revealing film. involved are all too visible.

WORLD PULSE AWARD BEST INDEPENDENT PRODUCTION INDIELISBOA INTERNATIONAL LE FESTIVAL DE CINÉMA INDEPENDENT FILM FESTIVAL VUES D’AFRIQUE LISBON, 2014 MONTREAL, 2014

76 min | Jean-François Caissy 85 min • 57 min | Vic Sarin 52 min | Hélène Choquette NFB Sepia Films | NFB NFB 29 SOCIETY

NCR: OUT OF MIND, WHERE I’M FROM NOT CRIMINALLY OUT OF SIGHT RESPONSIBLE

Justice, Mental Health Urbanism

From four-time Emmy®-winner John Kastner comes Emmy®-winning filmmaker John Kastner gains With the Montreal borough of Verdun and the Saint a documentary about the revolution in the treatment unprecedented access to a forensic psychiatric Lawrence River as its backdrop, this intimate coming- of the “criminally insane.” With remarkable access hospital – once known as an asylum for the of-age story chronicles filmmaker Claude Demers’ to a forensic psychiatric institution, the film shows criminally insane. He follows the treatment of four return to his childhood neighbourhood, seeking how psychiatrists treat criminals with severe mental patients struggling to gain control over their lives answers to the mysteries of his origins. This free- disorders: patients who not long ago would have been so they can return to a society that often fears flowing film marries realism and lyricism, and is considered hopelessly dangerous are today being and demonizes them. as deeply human as it is poetic. released back into the community.

BEST CANADIAN FEATURE DOCUMENTARY HOT DOCS TORONTO, 2014

THE BOXING GIRLS SPORTS OF KABUL

Human Rights, Middle East

A remarkable group of young Afghan women hone their boxing skills without the benefit of even the most basic training facilities. Loyal to their nation, yet daring to defy its traditions, these courageous boxers risk persecution and openly dream of their future – and even a shot at the Olympics.

BEST DOCUMENTARY BEST SHORT DOCUMENTARY VIEWFINDERS ATLANTIC CANADIAN FILM FESTIVAL FOR YOUTH SCREEN AWARDS HALIFAX, 2012 TORONTO, 2013

52 min | Ariel Nasr NFB 31 SPORTS

LEGEND OF MIGHTY JEROME SECRETARIAT’S A WARRIOR JOCKEY, RON TURCOTTE

Biography, Diversity, Family Biography, Human Rights Biography, History

To his legions of fans, Frank Lee is martial arts. Gorgeous monochrome imagery, impassioned Ron Turcotte won 3,033 horse races; he is famed His status as a legendary street fighter and world- interviews and astonishing archival footage recount for taking the Triple Crown astride Secretariat, and renowned coach has kept him distanced, emotionally the compelling rise, fall and redemption of track-and- he is the only jockey ever to have won five of six and physically, from his son, Corey. Now the younger field star Harry Jerome. Charles Officer’s documentary consecutive Triple Crown races. In this documentary Lee, in his forties and a father himself, is prepared to captures the story of what Jerome’s coach, the road trip, Turcotte revisits the sites and people that step into the ring to reconnect with his mighty dad. legendary Bill Bowerman, called “the greatest defined his career before it was brought to an abrupt comeback in track and field history.” end by a 1978 accident on the track.

BEST ORIGINAL SCORE; BEST DOCUMENTARY BEST FEATURE LENGTH BEST HISTORICAL DOCUMENTARY GRAND PRIZE BEST DOCUMENTARY ALBERTA FILM AND DOCUMENTARY NORTHWEST REGIONAL CINEMA TELEVISION AWARDS LEO AWARDS EMMY AWARDS CINEFEST ON THE BAYOU SUDBURY, 2013 EDMONTON, 2013 VANCOUVER, 2011 SEATTLE, 2012 LAFAYETTE, 2014

COMING ANGRY INUK SOON

Aboriginal, Environment, Justice

In 2009, the European Union banned the import of seal products, legislation that delivered a blow to traditional Inuit sealing in Canada. Angry Inuk follows Inuit lawyer and activist Aaju Peters, filmmaker Alethea Arnaquq- Baril and students of the Nunavut Sivuniksavut school as they campaign to challenge perceptions of Inuit sealing.

50 min | Alethea Arnaquq-Baril Unikkaat Studios Inc. | NFB 33 COMING SOON COMING

THE DANNY GRASSROOTS HADWIN’S JUDGEMENT PROJECT IN DRY LANDS

Politics, Society Human Rights, Middle East, Politics Environment, Justice

This vibrant documentary portrait looks at the Grassroots in Dry Lands tells the story of three From the producing teams behind the acclaimed life and legacy of Newfoundland and Labrador’s unconventional social workers united by a common Searching for Sugar Man and Stories We Tell comes charismatic game-changing premier, Danny Williams. vision that transcends the antagonisms between their Hadwin’s Judgement, the true story of Grant countries. Nuha, from Nablus (Occupied Palestinian Hadwin, a logger-turned-environmentalist who Territories), Talal, from East Amman (Jordan), and mysteriously disappeared after singlehandedly Amit, from Sderot (Israel) are empowering some destroying North America’s most sacred tree, of the region’s most disenfranchised, war-scarred the Golden Spruce. communities in an effort to build a just and civil society.

UYGHURS: THE WALL PRISONERS OF THE ABSURD

Human Rights, Justice, Politics Animation, Human Rights, Middle East

The incredible odyssey of a group of men from In his monologue Wall, acclaimed British playwright and director David Hare explores both sides of the barrier China’s persecuted Uyghur minority, detained in separating Israel and Palestine, a divide that will eventually be over four times as long as the Berlin Wall and, Guantánamo as terrorists. Exposing the cold logic in parts, twice as high. Cam Christensen’s accomplished cinematic adaptation of the work blends motion of post–September 11 geopolitical gamemasters capture, illustration, photography, live action and hand-drawn animation. who flout international law as they shift their pawns, this documentary is part human drama, part political thriller, and both thought-provoking and moving.

90 min | Patricio Henríquez 70 min | Cam Christensen Macumba DOC inc. | NFB NFB 35 ANIMATION

ANIMATION BIG TREES

Humour, Music

How far will Odile go to preserve her apartment’s ocean-view panorama when tree leaves start to encroach? This brilliantly animated musical is punctuated by tango and leavened with whimsical visual styles.

12 min | Ann Marie Fleming NFB 36 ANIMATION ANIMATION

BUS STORY THE END OF PINKY FLOCONS

Humour, Youth 3D, Arts, Society Cinema, Music

This new short comedy from Tali, the animator behind Adapting award-winning author Heather O’Neill’s short After discovering fascinating outtakes from Norman At Home with Mrs. Hen (2006), was inspired by story, filmmaker Claire Blanchet uses hand-drawn McLaren’s A Chairy Tale, Marie-Josée Saint-Pierre the filmmaker’s misadventures as a school bus driver pencil and pastel animation, rendered in stereoscopic crafts a black-and-white short set to the music in Quebec’s Eastern Townships. 3D, to craft a distinctively seedy but poignant Montreal of Tchaikovsky and featuring renowned filmmaker noir about three fatefully interconnected lives. Claude Jutra.

JUNIOR JURY AWARD ANNECY INTERNATIONAL ANIMATED FILM FESTIVAL ANNECY, 2014

11 min | Tali 8 min | 2D, 3D | Claire Blanchet 2 min | Marie-Josée Saint-Pierre NFB NFB MJSTP Films Inc. 37 ANIMATION

THE FOX AND GLORIA VICTORIA HOLLOW LAND THE CHICKADEE

Family, Youth Arts, Experimental Human Rights

This charming animated fable tells the story of a Theodore Ushev explores the relationship between art This evocative animated film captures the unsettled starving fox who stumbles upon a lone chickadee and war in this animated work. Combining elements state of those who find themselves displaced – caught in a farmer’s trap. of surrealism and cubism, Gloria Victoria rallies us to whether by circumstance or by choice. battle in order to mourn the dead and plead for peace.

ALBERTO SÁNCHEZ FIPRESCI AWARD BEST FILM BEST ANIMATION AWARD SPECIAL AWARD SPECIAL MENTION ANNECY INTERNATIONAL FANTOCHE INTERNATIONAL INTERNATIONAL BROOKLYN ANIMATED FILM FESTIVAL ANIMATION FILM FESTIVAL ANIMAFEST FILM FESTIVAL FILM FESTIVAL ATHENS, 2014 BADEN, 2013 BROOKLYN, 2014 ANNECY, 2013 HUESCA, 2013 8 min | Evan DeRushie 7 min | Theodore Ushev 14 min | Michelle Kranot; Uri Kranot Cuppa Coffee Studios NFB Dansk Tegnefilm | Les Films de l’Arlequin | NFB 38 ANIMATION ANIMATION

IMPROMPTU MARY & MYSELF MINOTAUR

Food, Humour History, Human Rights, Women 3D, Experimental

The chaos of a last-minute dinner party provides Sam Decoste’s documentary offers a poetic tale about In Munro Ferguson’s new short, the Mythic Hero the backdrop for a quiet epiphany about embracing the hidden history of the so-called “comfort women.” journeys through a life cycle of abstract landscapes, life’s rich pageant. progressing from birth to death and finally, to rebirth. Created stereoscopically with groundbreaking Sandde™ 3D animation software, Minotaur also features music by Kid Koala.

BEST SHORT FOOD FILM FOOD FILM FESTIVAL AMSTERDAM, 2014

10 min | Bruce Alcock 7 min | Sam Decoste 7 min | Munro Ferguson Global Mechanic Inc. | NFB NFB NFB 39 ANIMATION

MONSIEUR PUG NAUGHTY NO FISH TO NICE WHERE TO GO

Society, Technology Family, Humour Arts, Human Rights

Monsieur Pug is no ordinary pooch! He’s a dog with In this charming live-action puppet feature, a little Based on Marie-Francine Hébert’s 2003 book, bad cholesterol and high blood pressure who loves boy learns that being good simply to get presents this modern tale offers a poetic and surprising pie and ice cream and relaxes by making origami. from Santa has nothing to do with the true meaning consideration of intolerance and the consequences But he is also a paranoiac, convinced he’s the target of Christmas. of war. in a vast conspiracy. But is Monsieur Pug even a real dog to begin with?

FIPRESCI PRIZE ANNECY INTERNATIONAL ANIMATED FILM FESTIVAL ANNECY, 2014

10 min | Janet Perlman 25 min | Judd Palmer 12 min | Nicola Lemay; Janice Nadeau NFB Old Trout Film Division | NFB NFB 40 ANIMATION ANIMATION

PILOTS ON RAINY DAYS A SEA TURTLE THE WAY HOME STORY

Sexuality Society 3D, Children, Wildlife

Making brilliant use of the technique of animating with For this wistful tale of an elderly Japanese man This moving and exquisite stop-motion animated sand, this new work by renowned Estonian animators reminiscing about the moments that almost changed film chronicles the life cycle of a critically Pritt and Olga Pärn tells the story of three aviators who his life, the precise, delicate animation was created endangered species. inexplicably find themselves stranded in the middle via a unique technique involving drawing with black of the desert. tea and ink on paper.

BEST ANIMATED FILM BEST OF THE ICFILMFEST INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL FOR CHILDREN AND YOUTH ICFILMFEST CHICAGO, 2013 ZLÍN, 2013

SOIF SOUP OF THE WEATHERMAN AND THE DAY THE SHADOWBOXER

Society, Women Humour, Music Family, Society

This tragedy in five acts is centered on a woman Lynn Smith’s gouache animations and a charming In this animation/live-action hybrid short, director who must confront her thirst for alcohol, an doo-wop song by Canadian songwriter Zander Ary Randall Okita looks into the eyes of the two-headed obsession that has become the essence of her being. bring to life a deliciously funny tale about a couple beast that is brotherhood. Two adult siblings, scarred Michèle Cournoyer works with black ink on paper trying to work through their culinary differences. in their own ways by dark events in their childhoods, to render dazzling metamorphoses in this hard- have grown up and apart, absorbing their histories hitting short. in very different ways. But when crisis arises, their brotherly bonds pull them back together, for better or worse. Are we ever whole and single individuals,

SICAF CHOICE AWARD or are we always interconnected pieces or halves SEOUL INTERNATIONAL CARTOON & ANIMATION FESTIVAL of a larger thing? SEOUL, 2013

9 min | Michèle Cournoyer 4 min | Lynn Smith 10 min | Randall Okita Unité centrale | NFB NFB NFB 42 ANIMATION ANIMATION

SUBCONSCIOUS THIRD PAGE PASSWORD FROM THE SUN

3D, Humour Experimental, Music

Directed by Chris Landreth, the filmmaker behind the Oscar®-winning short Ryan, Subconscious Password This animation film explores issues ranging from uses a common social gaffe – forgetting somebody’s name – as the starting point for a mind-bending romp ephemerality and obsolescence in the digital age to the through the unconscious. practice of recycling.

BEST ANIMATED SHORT THE CRISTAL FOR BEST SHORT BEST ANIMATION CANADIAN ANNECY INTERNATIONAL SCREEN AWARDS ANIMATED FILM FESTIVAL NY SHORTS FEST NEW YORK, 2014 TORONTO, 2014 ANNECY, 2013

11 min | 3D | Chris Landreth 6 min | Theodore Ushev NFB NFB 43 INTERACTIVE

BUBBLE INTERACTIVE DANCERS

To be a dish-washer is to be invisible, hidden within a cloud of steam, drowned out by the clatter of cutlery and the clanging of pots. Bringing the dish pit to the desktop, Bubble Dancers enters the restaurant industry through the back doors and alleyways, and introduces us to workers whose voices are rarely heard.

Interactive | Mark Hoffe Mad Mummer Media Inc. | NFB 44 INTERACTIVE INTERACTIVE

THE DEVIL’S TOY REDUX

MONTREAL NEW YORK SINGAPORE BOR VICTORIAVILLE VANCOUVER LYON BAD DURKHEIM LOS ANGELES JOHANNESBURG ATHENS

The Devil’s Toy Redux is a kickflip in New York City that lands in South Africa. It’s a railslide that starts with Claude Jutra’s 1966 original film and ends in your browser window. Audiences can jump from country to country, theme to theme and era to era through eleven productions. Presented alongside the original 1966 film, The Devil’s Toy Redux is an invitation to see skateboarding through a variety of cultural lenses.

Related: see SHORTS section

Interactive | Alex Leduc ARTE | NFB 45 INTERACTIVE

THE FAITH PROJECT FORT MCMONEY HIGHRISE

This interactive documentary project features This multi-award-winning interactive documentary HIGHRISE is a multi-year, multi-media, collaborative evocative short films about prayer in the modern game is set in Fort McMurray, Alberta, a town of documentary experiment about the human experience world. Journey into the hearts of seven major faiths excesses where over 1.5 million barrels of oil are in global vertical suburbs. The HIGHRISE project – into inner, personal landscapes that are sacred yet extracted every day. Fort McMoney invites players includes: A Short History of the Highrise; Out My surprisingly accessible. into the heart of the petroleum industry to decide Window; and One Millionth Tower. the future of the world’s largest energy project. Related: see SHORTS section. Related: see ENVIRONMENT section

1ST PRIZE CATEGORY MERIT AWARD WORLD PRESS PHOTO PHOTOGRAPHY MULTIMEDIA CONTEST ONE SHOW INTERACTIVE AMSTERDAM, 2014 NEW YORK, 2014

MAKING MOVIE SEVEN DIGITAL SIMILKAMEEN HISTORY: A PORTRAIT DEADLY SINS CROSSROADS IN 61 PARTS

Composed of 61 profiles,Making Movie History Pride, lust, greed, gluttony, envy, wrath and sloth Driving east along the Crowsnest Highway, exiting offers an anecdotal portrait of the NFB’s place – the seven deadly sins have an ancient history. the old mining town of Hedley, BC, travellers come in Canadian cinema through the stories of some From the greed driving online traders to the envy of across an early 20th-century chapel perched atop a of its artists, rebels and dreamers. the anonymous troll, this interactive documentary looks hill on the Upper Similkameen Reserve. Similkameen at the moral dilemmas of digital society and asks how Crossroads pulls off the highway to explore the technology is reshaping our beliefs and everyday lives. church and the land around it, stopping long enough to learn its history and to meet its present.

Interactive | Joanne Robertson; Denys Desjardins Interactive | Loc Dao Interactive | Tyler Hagan 46 NFB The Guardian | NFB NFB 47 INDEX

20 54 Hours 27 Alphée of the Stars 21 Anatomy 33 Angry Inuk 28 Ariel 12 Atanasoff: Father of the Computer 6 Bad Coyote 36 Big Trees 31 The Boxing Girls of Kabul 44 Bubble Dancers 37 Bus Story 28 Chi INDEX 14 The Coca-Cola Case 21 CODA 34 The Danny Project 22 The Devil’s Toy 45 The Devil’s Toy Redux 37 The End of Pinky 28 Everything Will Be 13 Exile: A Myth Unearthed 46 The Faith Project 37 Flocons

48 INDEX INDEX

46 Fort McMoney 18 Norman McLaren: Animated Musician 15 Silence is Gold 7 Fort McMoney: The Film 7 Meltdown 47 Similkameen Crossroads 38 The Fox and the Chickadee 32 Mighty Jerome 42 Soif 7 The Fruit Hunters 39 Minotaur 24 Song for Cuba 38 Gloria Victoria 40 Monsieur Pug 42 Soup of the Day 34 Grassroots in Dry Lands 18 My Prairie Home 26 Stories From our Land 2.0 29 Guidelines 40 Naughty to Nice 10 Stories we Tell 34 Hadwin’s Judgement 30 NCR: Not Criminally Responsible 43 Subconscious Password 46 Highrise 40 No Fish Where to Go 43 Third Page from the Sun 38 Hollow Land 30 Out of Mind, Out of Sight 16 Trick or Treaty? 22 Home-Cooked Music 21 ORA 11 Triptych 29 Hue: A Matter of Colour 41 Pilots on the Way Home 8 Two Inuit Lives 9 Imagined States of America 15 Prosecutor 35 Uyghurs, Prisoners of the Absurd 39 Impromptu 8 Rainforest: The Limit of Splendour 35 The Wall 22 Island Green 41 Rainy Days 10 The Wanted 18 23 Jutra 41 A Sea Turtle Story 19 Wavemakers 32 Legend of a Warrior 24 Science at the Top of the World 42 The Weatherman and the Shadowboxer 23 Letters from Pyongyang 32 Secretariat’s Jockey, Ron Turcotte 30 Where I’m From 29 Little Big Girls 19 Seth’s Dominion 16 Wiebo’s War 47 Making Movie History: A Portrait in 61 Parts 47 Seven Digital Deadly Sins 8 The Wings of Johnny May 17 Maria Chapdelaine 19 The Short Apology of Albert Batch 39 Mary & Myself 25 A Short History of the Highrise

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