{"id":38059,"date":"2021-12-17T01:39:43","date_gmt":"2021-12-17T09:39:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.jewishindependent.ca\/?p=38059"},"modified":"2021-12-16T19:19:08","modified_gmt":"2021-12-17T03:19:08","slug":"recent-nfb-releases","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jewishindependent.ca\/index.php\/2021\/12\/17\/recent-nfb-releases\/","title":{"rendered":"Recent NFB releases"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Actor Catherine O\u2019Hara in a still from the four-minute video <em>All of Us Shine<\/em> by Jewish community member Hart Snider. (See <a href=\"http:\/\/jewishindependent.ca\/revisiting-shop-class-misery\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">jewishindependent.ca\/revisiting-shop-class-misery<\/a>.) For the 12th year, the NFB brought together acclaimed filmmakers to create short cinematic tributes to Canadian performing arts legends, as the Governor General\u2019s Performing Arts Awards honoured laureates with two televised specials last month, one on CBC and one on Radio-Canada. All the short films are now available to watch (for free) at <a href=\"http:\/\/nfb.ca\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">nfb.ca<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Also released early last month, marking Transgender Awareness Week, was the feature-length documentary <em>Beauty<\/em> by Christina Willings (<a href=\"http:\/\/jewishindependent.ca\/liked-beauty-not-wall\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">jewishindependent.ca\/liked-beauty-not-wall<\/a>). It and more than 40 other related short and feature-length documentary and animated films can be accessed at <a href=\"http:\/\/nfb.ca\/channels\/lgbtq2\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">nfb.ca\/channels\/lgbtq2<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\"><em>\u2013 Courtesy NFB<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Actor Catherine O\u2019Hara in a still from the four-minute video All of Us Shine by Jewish community member Hart Snider. (See jewishindependent.ca\/revisiting-shop-class-misery.) For the 12th year, the NFB brought together acclaimed filmmakers to create short cinematic tributes to Canadian performing arts legends, as the Governor General\u2019s Performing Arts Awards honoured laureates with two televised specials [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":38060,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[787],"tags":[21134,21135,6967,21133,8615,6968,5307],"class_list":["post-38059","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-tv-film","tag-catherine-ohara","tag-christina-willings","tag-documentaries","tag-hart-snider","tag-lgbtq-2","tag-national-film-board","tag-transgender"],"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\/38059","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=38059"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.jewishindependent.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38059\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jewishindependent.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/38060"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jewishindependent.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38059"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jewishindependent.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38059"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jewishindependent.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38059"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}