New from the National Film Board of Canada

As of October 8, 2009, NFB.ca will feature exclusive programming as part of Get Animated!, with new shorts joining over 150 NFB animation productions already online. New titles include The Brainwashers and Subservience, puppet-animated films from two-time Jutra award-winner Patrick Bouchard, as well as Iriz Pääbo’s HA’Aki, a highly inventive and unorthodox look at hockey.

Also added: Tzaritza and Drux Flux by Theodore Ushev; Here and There by Diane Obomsawin; Uncle Bob’s Hospital Visit; by Prince Edward Island animator JoDee Samuelson; Engine 371, a short about the construction of Canada’s transcontinental railroad by Kevin Langdale; and Forming Game by Alberta?s Malcolm Sutherland.

Animation Express Get Animated! will feature the national launch of the 2-disc set Animation Express, a dazzling collection of 26 films by animation innovators. These include Chris Lavis and Maciek Szczerbowski?s Oscar-nominee Madame Tutli-Putli, Cordell Barker’s Runaway and Claude Cloutier’s Sleeping Betty, winner of 20 awards including the Genie Award for Best Animated Short. A deluxe Blu-Ray edition of Animation Express features 13 extra titles, including the Oscar winners Ryan by Chris Landreth and The Danish Poet by Torill Kove. Animation Express will be available for purchase at all Get Animated! screening venues, at a discounted price. Animation Express is distributed by Mongrel Media and Metropole Distribution.

The NFB is Canada’s public film producer and distributor (aka the National Film Board of Canada) which creates social-issue documentaries, auteur animation, alternative drama and digital content that provide the world with a unique Canadian perspective. In collaboration with its international partners and co-producers, the NFB is expanding the vocabulary of 21st-century cinema and breaking new ground in form and content, through community filmmaking projects, cross-platform media, interactive cinema, stereoscopic animation—and more. Since the NFB?s founding in 1939, it has created over 13,000 productions and won over 5,000 awards, including 12 Oscars and more than 90 Genies. In 2009, the works of NFB animation pioneer Norman McLaren were added to UNESCO’s Memory of the World Registry.

The NFB’s new website features over 1,000 productions online—visit and start watching.