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What Is Canada's Oldest Film Production Company? The Competing Claims Explained
The Canadian Bioscope Company was founded in Halifax in 1912, made one of Canada's earliest commercial feature films and disappeared during the First World War.
What Was the First Canadian Film to Win an Oscar?
The first Canadian film to win an Oscar was Churchill’s Island, a 1941 documentary produced by the National Film Board of Canada (NFB).
What Was Canada's First Science-Fiction Film?
Canada was making films about astronomy, imagined technology and other unusual possibilities long before Julian Roffman released The Mask in 1961.
The History of Independent Filmmaking in Canada
In 1913, the Halifax-based Canadian Bioscope Company filmed Evangeline in Nova Scotia, adapting Henry Wadsworth Longfellow’s poem about the Acadian expulsion.
Jay Odjick talks Indigenous representation as Amanda Strong’s Inkwo screens at Library and Archives Canada
Jay Odjick remembers looking for Indigenous people in the comics he read growing up and finding few characters who resembled anyone he knew.
OIAF at 50: More than two dozen of its Canadian favourites come from the NFB
When programmers at the Ottawa International Animation Festival began looking through the Canadian films screened during the festival's first 50 years, they had more than 700 to consider and eventually chose 50.
Joella Cabalu takes the rom-com past the meet-cute in First Comes Love: Nakabingwit
Joella Cabalu grew up in the 1990s watching romantic comedies as, in her words, an “instruction manual” for relationships.
Soran Mardookhi’s The Flight follows PS752 families’ years-long pursuit of accountability
Before Ukraine International Airlines Flight PS752 was downed on Jan. 8, 2020, Soran Mardookhi spoke with his brother in Sanandaj, in Iranian Kurdistan.