📣 Jessie Ray Short's documentary MOON NOONK EDOUARD (MY UNCLE EDOUARD) will make its US premiere tomorrow, August 5, at the Rhode Island Int’l Film Festival (RIIFF) in the Our Roots Short Docs Package. 🎟️ prog.tsharp.xyz/en/riiff/44/...

📺 My #LastFourWatched include films by Canadian filmmakers as I prep my fall festival season (directors Carol Nguyen and Soran Mardookhi have new #NFB documentaries ready to go.) They're very talented, I'm excited to work with them. 👍 THE OZEMPIC EFFECT doc is soso 🫤. Happy #LetterboxdFriday!

My #LastFourWatched: 👍 Frontline/PBS doc about the friendship between Donald Trump and MBS. 👍 Interesting doc about 1970s Indigenous uprising in Kenora, Ontario. 😀😆Two relaxing "Night at the Museum" movies. Happy #LetterboxdFriday!

📣 In addition, the same event on August 6 will feature: 📽️ World Premiere of Malaya Quanirq-Chapman's documentary NIRILAURTA: LET US EAT, about food insecurity in Taloyoak, Nunavut. 📆 Thursday, August 6 - 7pm 📍 Salle Alanis-Obomsawin, Montreal presenceautochtone.ca/en/programma...

📣 Save-the-date, #Montreal! 📆 Thursday, August 6 - 7pm 📍 Salle Alanis-Obomsawin Montreal premiere of Jessie Ray Short's NFB documentary MOON NOONK EDOUARD at Présence Autochtone 2026. 🎙️ Filmmaker in attendance. 🎟️ presenceautochtone.ca/en/programma...

📽️ My #LastFourWatched include two OK Hollywood blockbusters, an amazing NFB wild river adventure doc from 1962 (NAHANNI) and an incredible 35-mm screening of SMOKE SIGNALS (1998) @thecinematheque.bsky.social Vancouver, with lead actor Evan Adams in attendance for a Q&A. 🍿 Happy #LetterboxdFriday! 🍿

An excellent #LastFourWatched this week. 👗 NATCHEZ: fascinating documentary 👍🏻 ✈️ AIR FORCE ONE 😰 🛶 Apex 😱 ❤️ WUTHERING HEIGHTS 🆗 Happy #LetterboxdFriday!

🏆 AFTER US 😍 3 #LeoAwards26 ! -Best Animation Program - Teri Snelgrove, Shirley Vercruysse – Producers -Best Art Direction Animation Program - Kevin Phibbs -Best Sound Animation Program - Miguel Nunes, Alex Macia, Devon Quelch, Jake Kerr 📽️ Still on the festival circuit! #NFB

🎉 IN THE ROOM 🏆 4 #LeoAwards26 ! -Best Feature Length Documentary -Best Screenwriting Feature Length Documentary – Brishkay Ahmed -Best Cinematography Feature Length Documentary – Diana Parry -Best Sound Feature Length Documentary 📺 Stream on #NFB!

Happy #LetterboxdFriday! Once again, documentaries are so much better than dramas among my #LastFourWatched! 📹 STORIES WE TELL, by Sarah Polley, is incredible. 📸 THE MUSE, by Wanda Nolan, received a Canadian Screen Award last night. 📺 Both can be streamed on the #NFB 's platforms.

📣 The NFB scored 13 #LeoAwards nominations this year! These are British Columbia's film industry awards. The gala will be held on July 5th in Vancouver, B.C. Congrats, teams IN THE ROOM, AFTER US, SATURDAY and MY KNITTING CIRCLE!

I’m at the Yorkton Film Festival, hence a bit late with my #LastFourWatched this #LetterboxdFriday. Knowing 🆗 Michael 🥲 Saturday ❤️ A Priest Walks Into a Bar 😆

Animator Chris Lavis was on CBC The Morning Edition to talk about The Girl Who Cried Pearls, which is nominated in the Children's/Youth category at the 2026 Yorkton Film Festival. #NFB www.cbc.ca/listen/live-...

More DOXA Documentary Festival fare among my #LastFourWatched, including There Are No Words ❤️‍🩹 Powwow People 👍🏻 A Cree Approach ❤️ Time and Water 😑 Happy #LetterboxdFriday!

🎙️ Afghan-Canadian director Brishkay Ahmed spoke with CBC Edmonton AM about the NFB production IN THE ROOM, which will be shown at the Art Gallery of Alberta tonight. 📻 www.cbc.ca/listen/live-...

🏆 The Colin Low Award for Best Canadian Director is awarded to Kim Nguyen for Saigon Story: Two Shootings in the Forest Kingdom at #DOXA2026. www.doxafestival.ca/news/2026/05...

Happy #LetterboxdFriday! Only DOXA Documentary Festival highlights among my #LastFourWatched. UNTOLD 🆗 SAIGON STORY 🤩 THERE ARE NO WORDS 🥲 AMERICAN DOCTOR ❤️‍🩹

😀 Happy #LetterboxdFriday! 🎶 I'm sorry, film critics, Gen X-er here, I enjoyed MICHAEL so much, I'd love to see it again! 😘 📺 Otherwise, I finished Season 2 of THE PITT (HBO/Noah Wyle) and thought it was spectacular. Better than Season 1. #LastFourWatched

‪🎙️ Kim Nguyen, director of SAIGON STORY: TWO SHOOTINGS IN THE FOREST KINGDOM, was on CBC The Early Edition with host @cbcstephenquinn.bsky.social this morning. Catch the Noble Television & NFB co-production May 1 + 7 at DOXA Vancouver. 📻 www.cbc.ca/listen/live-...

🍾 Happy 25th anniversary, DOXA! This year’s festival is showcasing 69 films out of 1,100 submissions. They include Kim Nguyen's SAIGON STORY (pictured below) and Min Sook Lee's THERE ARE NO WORDS. #DOXA2026 #NFB Story: @vancouversun.bsky.social vancouversun.com/entertainmen...

🎉 The winner of the #WGCAward2026 for best DOCUMENTARY script is IN THE ROOM, written by Brishkay Ahmed! Congratulations! Stream the film on nfb.ca.

Happy #LetterboxdFriday! My #LastFourWatched: 🧡 FOSTER CHILD, autobiographical 1987 documentary by Gil Cardinal, newly versioned with Cree syllabic subtitles (stream worldwide on nfb.ca) 👍 SECRET MALL APARTMENT 👍IT WAS JUST AN ACCIDENT 👎SUSPENDED IN SPACE (I think this is a Tourism Yukon ad)

Christian Zyp of @cjsrfm.bsky.social interviews Coty Savard (producer) & Connor McNally (subtitle editor) about Gil Cardinal's film FOSTER CHILD: ohpikihâkan awâsis. Plays Sat 18 April at @dreamspeakers.bsky.social in Edmonton! 🎙️ open.spotify.com/episode/7BKC...

Now learning Polish!

NFB producer Coty Savard went on CBC Edmonton AM this morning to discuss the new nêhiyawêwin/Cree syllabics-subtitled version of Gil Cardinal's FOSTER CHILD, which is presented by @dreamspeakers.bsky.social on Saturday April 18 in Edmonton. 🎙️ www.cbc.ca/listen/live-...

Happy #LetterboxdFriday! Among my #LastFourWatched: THE EMPIRE OF SCENTS and THE HUMMINGBIRD PROJECT, both directed by the wonderful Canadian director Kim Nguyen👍 DARK WATERS, a literally dark environmental/legal drama 🫤 SCOOP, a surprisingly thrilling watch about Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor. 🫢

Min Sook Lee's THERE ARE NO WORDS is playing April 17 at the Full Frame Documentary Film Festival in Durham, North Carolina. 🎟️ www.fullframefest.org/film/there-a...

Documentary 7 BEATS PER MINUTE featuring Campbell River freediving guru, Kirk Krack, is available to screen free on #NFB platforms → bit.ly/7BPM_nfb Article by Robin Grant → campbellrivermirror.com/2026/03/30/c... #StreamCanadian

Happy #LetterboxdFriday! Among my #LastFourWatched: 👍Top Notch drama WAR WITCH, by Canadian director Kim Nguyen 😎 A great film noir, DOUBLE INDEMNITY 👩‍💻 boring M3GAN 2.0 ⭐ Amazing Rose Byrne in IF I HAD LEGS I'D KILL YOU

A photograph can never capture the whole truth... A Noble Television and National Film Board of Canada co-production, Kim Nguyen's SAIGON STORY: TWO SHOOTINGS IN THE FOREST KINGDOM will have its world premiere at Hot Docs 2026!