Since its founding in 1939, The National Film Board of Canada has earned a reputation as one of the most innovative filmmaking centers in the world. Cinéma vérité techniques, revolutionary forms of animation, improvements to camera equipment, multi-screen films, new printing processes--all have been developed at the NFBC in the course of producing thousands of films ranging from the animated short to the documentary to the fiction feature.
NFBC: A Retrospective presents a selection of some of the now classic films that have been produced by NFBC, and introduces several new works to Bay Area audiences. It is presented in conjunction with a Bay Area-wide retrospective tribute that includes film screenings at the De Young Museum and the San Francisco State University Film Department in addition to those presented by PFA.
PFA welcomes James de B. Domville, Film Commissioner and chairman of the NFBC, and Kenneth Shere, the U.S. General Manager of the NFB, who will be on hand to discuss this remarkable Board and its role in the development of world cinema.