JRN 412 Lecture 3: The National Film Board of Canada
7 Feb 2018
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National film board: founded in 1939 as a federal agency, very little film making in canada in the 1930s-founded to address that, to provide support and funding to filmmakers, since 1939, over 13,000 productions, over 5,000 awards. Under grierson direction: during wwii nfb released more than 500 films: shorts, documentaries, propaganda and animation. Grierson resigns in 1945: feared increased bureaucracy of the nfb as it became successful, was attacked for supposed communist sympathies and connection with russian spy ring. Challenges: funding provided by gov. and its own revenue streams, often seen as being outdated today despite diversity, new media engagement, digitization of its archive, seen as having good intentions, and offering realistic, informational docs, not cutting edge. Up the yangtze: montreal based filmmaker yung chang, released in 2008, pit(cid:272)hed fil(cid:373) i(cid:374) (cid:1006)(cid:1004)(cid:1004)(cid:1007) (cid:271)ut (cid:272)ould(cid:374)"t (cid:373)ake it u(cid:374)til nfb stepped i(cid:374) to (cid:272)o-produce, looks at effect of the three gorges dam on people in the area.
