NFB Receives 17 Canadian Screen Award Nominations
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National Film Board of Canada (NFB) productions and craftspeople have received 17 nominations at the Canadian Screen Awards, presented by the Academy of Canadian Cinema & Television, recognizing excellence in film, television and digital media.
Ted Rogers Best Feature-Length Documentary Award
- La marche à suivre (Guidelines), dir. Jean-François Caissy
Best Short Documentary Film
- Seth’s Dominion, dir. Luc Chamberland
- Jutra, dir. Marie-Josée Saint-Pierre, co-produced by MJSTP Films and the NFB
Best Animated Short
- Me and My Moulton, dir. Torill Kove, produced by the NFB and Mikrofilm AS
- Soif, dir. Michèle Cournoyer, produced by Unité centrale and the NFB
Donald Brittain Award for Best Social/Political Documentary Program
- Out of Mind, Out of Sight, dir. John Kastner, produced by J.S. Kastner Productions and the NFB, commissioned by TVO
Best Original Interactive Production Produced for Digital Media
- Fort McMoney, created by David Dufresne, produced by TOXA and the NFB, in collaboration with ARTE
- Circa 1948, co-created by Stan Douglas and the NFB
- Seven Digital Deadly Sins, co-created by the NFB, The Guardian and Jam3
Best Original Program or Series Produced for Digital Media–Non-Fiction
- The Devil’s Toy Redux, produced by the NFB in collaboration with ARTE
- A Short History of the Highrise, co-produced by the NFB and The New York Times
Best Cinematography in a Feature-Length Documentary
- Nicolas Canniccioni, La marche à suivre
- Jean-Pierre St-Louis and Nicolas Canniccioni, Where I’m From (D’où je viens)
- Patrick McLaughlin, Everything Will Be
Best Editing in a Feature-Length Documentary
- Mathieu Bouchard-Malo, La marche à suivre
Best Direction in a Documentary Program
- John Kastner, Out of Mind, Out of Sight
Best Picture Editing in a Documentary Program or Series
- Michael Hannan, Out of Mind, Out of Sight
The Canadian Screen Awards are presented by the Academy of Canadian Cinema & Television over three nights, with the Television & Digital Media Awards Gala taking place at the Sheraton Centre Toronto on February 24 and 25, followed by a two-hour live broadcast of the Canadian Screen Awards Gala on CBC-TV from the Four Seasons Centre, on March 1, 2015, starting at 8 p.m.