Directed by Jean-François Caissy, Guidelines screens June 6 in the Global Encounters program. This feature documentary about students at a rural high school gradually reveals the interior drama of adolescence, with its shifts from fragility to reckless abandon. Guidelines was produced by Johanne Bergeron, with executive producer Colette Loumède.
Three NFB interactive works are featured in the Interactive Exhibition, starting June 5.
Universe Within: Digital Lives in the Global Highrise is the final chapter in the NFB’s multi-award-winning interactive documentary series HIGHRISE. Universe Within takes us into the apartments, hearts, minds and computers of vertical citizens around the world. Trapped in our highrise units, can we find love, hate, peace, god, community—or a better world—online? Created by Katerina Cizek and produced by Gerry Flahive and David Oppenheim for the NFB, in collaboration with University of Toronto researchers Deborah Cowen and Emily Paradis and Secret Location.
Conceived and directed by Brett Gaylor, the seven-part Do Not Track series goes beyond a traditional documentary film experience, offering viewers who agree to share their personal data an astounding real-time look at how their online ID is being tracked, analyzed and sold. Do Not Track is produced by the Paris-based production company Upian; the NFB; French/German public broadcaster Arte; and German public broadcaster Bayerischer Rundfunk.
Interactive Haiku is the result of a global call for proposals to digital creators, challenging them to push the boundaries of interactive narration with very, very, brief experiences. The NFB and ARTE asked creators to produce a different kind of short interactive work by drawing inspiration from the haiku form to create digital equivalents of haiku. The 12 winning proposals come from 6 different countries and were selected out of 162 submissions from 20 countries.
Starting June 5, the Virtual Reality Arcade allows users to don a VR headset and immerse themselves in Vincent Morisset’s Way to Go. An astonishing mixture of hand-made animation, 360-degree video capture, music, dreaming and code, Way to Go will remind you of all that lies before you, within you, in the luscious, sudden pleasure of discovery. Produced by the NFB and co-produced by France Télévisions, Way to Go is created by Vincent Morisset, Philippe Lambert, Édouard Lanctôt-Benoit and Caroline Robert of the studio AATOAA.
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