Gender-based analysis plus

Key Impacts: Other

In 2020–2021, the NFB achieved its objectives for gender equity with regard to number of ongoing productions and production budgets. Women from all backgrounds and all parts of Canada continued to play central roles in NFB audiovisual production and programming. It should also be noted that for the second year running, the NFB received Platinum Parity Certification from Women in Governance, the highest level of parity recognition awarded by that organization.

By carrying through on the commitments announced in its 2017–2020 Indigenous Action Plan and in the areas of diversity, equity and inclusion, the NFB ensures its programming equitably includes the voices of artists and creators from Indigenous, Black, racialized and LGBTQ2+ communities, and people with disabilities across the country, and that these groups are represented within the NFB’s various Creation and Innovation committees.

Supplementary Information Sources:

Gender Parity at the NFB.

The NFB stays on course for gender parity. Platinum Parity Certification from Women in Governance. News release, March 5, 2021.

Indigenous Action Plan 2017–2020: Redefining the NFB’s Relationship with Indigenous Peoples

Diversity, Equity and Inclusion. NFB Commitments and Objectives, February 2021

GBA+ Data Collection Plan:

In 2020–2021, the GBA+ data collected for the NFB’s ongoing service contracts with directors and craftspeople were for gender, official-language minority and Indigenous status. These data allow us to obtain a more accurate picture of the NFB’s progress toward meetings its diversity and inclusion objectives.

The organization is currently working on implementing new self-identification mechanisms for creators. This initiative will allow the NFB to carry out monitoring in a respectful way as it strives to reaffirm and enhance its commitment to increasing representation of creators and partners from the designated equity groups.

• Indigenous people;
• People who identify as LGBTQ2+;
• Young people (particularly via CAMPUS, the NFB’s online education platform);
• Members of visible minorities;
• People with disabilities.

Key Impacts: Other

The NFB’s collection of more than 14,000 audiovisual works includes subtitled works in 18 Indigenous languages and 52 languages other than French and English.

The NFB’s librarians have updated their practices for classifying and cataloguing its Indigenous cinema collection, incorporating terminology and organizing knowledge in ways that better reflect Indigenous perspectives. This classification system is built around associations and relationships that are integral to Indigenous culture, thus reflecting worldviews that are specific to Indigenous Peoples.

In 2020–2021, the NFB Film Club | Cinéclub ONF celebrated Black History Month, as it does every year, with special programs of films from the NFB’s collection. There was an especially high demand from libraries across Canada for Film Club programming in 2020–2021.

GBA+ Data Collection Plan:

Nothing to report for 2020–2021. In compliance with privacy legislation, the NFB does not collect disaggregated data on GBA+ components from its audiences.

Key Impacts: Other

As a public producer and distributor with a mandate to ensure its productions reflect the realities, experiences and perspectives of the people of Canada, the NFB is firmly committed to implementing and following best practices and policies to guarantee fair representation of demographic groups that are currently underrepresented behind the camera, in key creative positions, in the stories that the NFB tells and in the ways that it tells them. The NFB has put official policies in place to ensure gender equity and diversity in its pool of creators, and the organization strives to serve as a model for the audiovisual production industry.

In 2020–2021, the NFB also partnered with various festivals and organizations to promote its audiovisual works, including the Black film festivals in Toronto, Halifax, Ottawa and Calgary. The goal was to support these emerging festivals in not only achieving their own mandates of “giving unique voices in cinema the opportunity to present audiences with new ways of looking at the world” and the “discovery and inclusion” of Black voices, but also to support the critical networks that are necessary for the ongoing distribution of NFB social-issue works to Canadians. In doing so, the NFB is maintaining and improving the accessibility of films that reflect original perspectives on Canadian realities.

The NFB also partnered with the Prairie Federal Council and Indigenous Services Canada to host a three-hour professional development/cultural competency online screening event for federal employees across Canada, hosted and moderated by Deputy Minister Daniel Kwan Watson and facilitated by Deputy Minister Dylan Jones. One thousand two hundred registrants viewed the NFB-co-produced documentary nîpawistamâsowin: We Will Stand Up and participated in a post-screening discussion with special guests Jade Tootoosis, Eleanore Sunchild and Sheelah McLean.

GBA+ Data Collection Plan:

Nothing to report for 2020–2021.

Key Impacts: Other

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GBA+ Data Collection Plan:

Nothing to report for 2020–2021.