{"id":34596,"date":"2020-04-03T03:37:42","date_gmt":"2020-04-03T10:37:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jewishindependent.ca\/?p=34596"},"modified":"2020-04-02T11:46:31","modified_gmt":"2020-04-02T18:46:31","slug":"nfb-offers-4000-titles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jewishindependent.ca\/index.php\/2020\/04\/03\/nfb-offers-4000-titles\/","title":{"rendered":"NFB offers 4,000 titles"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The National Film Board of Canada (<a href=\"http:\/\/nfb.ca\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">nfb.ca<\/a>) offers a selection of some 4,000 short and feature-length films, whether you\u2019re looking for animation, documentary or fiction. Explore the Cartoons for Kids section for the latest releases.<\/p>\n<p>The <em>Jewish Independent<\/em> has reviewed several NFB films over the years, which have been made by Jewish community members, such as <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jewishindependent.ca\/new-nfb-series-on-basketball\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Ryan Sidhoo\u2019s docuseries (now feature film) <em>True North<\/em><\/a>, which looks at the youth basketball scene in Toronto, and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jewishindependent.ca\/animated-therapy-session\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">David Fine and Alison Snowden\u2019s animated short <em>Animal Therapy<\/em><\/a>, which explores some of the pros and cons of following our natural instincts versus doing what is socially acceptable. There are also films on Jewish people or subjects, such as the documentary <em>Ladies and Gentlemen &#8230; Mr. Leonard Cohen<\/em> and the animated short <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jewishindependent.ca\/fulfilling-her-promise\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><em>My Yiddish Papi<\/em> by \u00c9l\u00e9onore Goldberg<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Enjoy searching the many choices available from the NFB, Jewish-related or not. Recently added titles include <em>Where the Land Ends<\/em>, a documentary feature by Lo\u00efc Darses, about the places that created Quebec, exploring the historical narrative, as a group of young people who were not old enough to vote in the 1995 referendum express their views; <em>Ice Breakers<\/em>, a documentary short by Sandi Rankaduwa on the Black athletes who helped pioneer modern hockey, through the story of Josh Crooks, an African-Canadian player; and <em>The Great List of Everything<\/em>, an animated webseries by comic book artists Cathon and Iris Boudreau, as well as Francis Papillon.<\/p>\n<p>New films are being added to <a href=\"http:\/\/nfb.ca\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">nfb.ca<\/a> all the time, and they\u2019re always free to view.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The National Film Board of Canada (nfb.ca) offers a selection of some 4,000 short and feature-length films, whether you\u2019re looking for animation, documentary or fiction. Explore the Cartoons for Kids section for the latest releases. The Jewish Independent has reviewed several NFB films over the years, which have been made by Jewish community members, such [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[787],"tags":[9826,6967,218,7963,9825,186],"class_list":["post-34596","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tv-film","tag-covd-19","tag-documentaries","tag-judaism","tag-movies","tag-national-film-board-of-canada","tag-yiddish"],"blocksy_meta":{"styles_descriptor":{"styles":{"desktop":"","tablet":"","mobile":""},"google_fonts":[],"version":8}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jewishindependent.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34596","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jewishindependent.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jewishindependent.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jewishindependent.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jewishindependent.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=34596"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.jewishindependent.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34596\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jewishindependent.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34596"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jewishindependent.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34596"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jewishindependent.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34596"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}