Our program Reel Opportunities aims to let students know all the ways they can become part of our blossoming film industry, with free workshops and discussions. Was it the Gaffer with the dolly at the craft table? Or was it the DOP with the boom mic in the makeup trailer? And what is a Best Boy anyway? We’ve got the answers. Reel Opportunities, presented by REEL CANADA and Bell Media, is a new training initiative that we launched in January. We’ve been teaching young people across the country all of that and more. Reel Opportunities will hold 200 workshops for 4000 youth across Canada through ..read more

Over 20,000 students set to participate in nation-wide livestreams featuring Charles Officer and Sarain Fox TORONTO — Nov. 17, 2020 — On Nov. 25, REEL CANADA is launching a compelling new programme to help students and teachers across the country discuss inequality and racism in Canada through film. The programme kicks off with a nation-wide interactive livestream on Black realities, featuring award-winning director Charles Officer in discussion of his acclaimed documentary THE SKIN WE’RE IN. Garvia Bailey will moderate the discussion, in which participating students will submit questions ..read more

Orange Shirt Day (Sept 30) Honour survivors of Canada’s Residential School System, as well as those children who did not survive, and the ongoing inter-generational impact on Indigenous communities. Indian Horse Nîpawistâmasowin: We Will Stand Up short films: Against the Grain (24 min), Rise: Urban Rez (44 min), Savage (6 min), When the Children Left (11 min)   Some of these films are being made available to you through a partnership with the Encore+ YouTube channel, your destination for memorable Canadian TV shows and films. Encore+ features hundreds of iconic and award-winnin ..read more

  At REEL CANADA we have always believed in the power of films to uplift and inspire, and to give voice to those who have for too long not been heard. In our work, we are committed to amplifying and uplifting those calling for justice, and raising the voices of creators who are Black, Indigenous, people of colour, and all those who are marginalized.  Words feel truly inadequate, yet it is impossible to remain silent at this moment. We are committed to working against Anti-Black racism in the work we do in communities across Canada. If you want to hear more Black perspectives from Ca ..read more

May Asian Heritage Month During Asian Heritage Month, we encourage you to share a Canadian film with your students that feature stories and issues focused on people of Asian heritage and cultures. Here are a few suggestions: Bollywood/Hollywood Breakaway The Breadwinner Double Happiness Dr. Cabbie Iron Road Meditation Park Midnight’s Children Water Window Horses The World Before Her Short films: From Far Away (7 min); The Girl Who Hated Books (8 min); Jamie Lo, Small and Shy (8 min); Lights for Gita (7 min); Roses Sing on New Snow (7 min); Mattress (9 min)   June ..read more

TORONTO — February 12, 2020 — REEL CANADA is pleased to present the seventh annual National Canadian Film Day (NCFD) on Wednesday, April 22, 2020. NCFD is the world’s largest film festival, with more than 1,000 Canadian film screenings expected across the country and around the world – celebrating the incredible achievements of our nation’s filmmakers. The 2020 programming Spotlight is World on Fire. Each NCFD, we strive to curate a list of films that will entertain, intrigue and be relevant to Canadians. This year, nothing felt more urgent than the fact that we are living in a world ..read more

TORONTO — February 5, 2019 — REEL CANADA is pleased to present the sixth annual National Canadian Film Day (NCFD) on Wednesday, April 17, 2019. NCFD is the world’s largest film festival, with more than 800 Canadian film screenings and events expected across the country and around the world. This year will mark six years of celebrating the incredible achievements of our nation’s filmmakers. More significantly, it marks an important milestone: the centennial of Canada’s first genuine blockbuster — and oldest surviving feature film — Nell Shipman’s Back to God’s Country, a sassy, snowy a ..read more

We’re back! We are thrilled to announce that National Canadian Film Day (NCFD) will return in 2019 for our sixth annual celebration on Wednesday, April 17th. We’d like to invite you to participate again! If you want to sign up, stay tuned – we will send your registration form in November and update canfilmday.ca with more detailed info. For now, just save the date! If you are planning to host a screening, make sure your venue is reserved on April 17, 2019! Your continued support and that of hundreds of other screening partners is at the very heart of NCFD and we can’t wait to share ..read more

REEL CANADA encourages all Canadians to carry on the legacy of the World’s Largest Film Festival – Ever TORONTO December 12, 2017 – REEL CANADA is thrilled to announce that the party isn’t over! National Canadian Film Day will take place on April 18, 2018. As the sesquicentennial year draws to a close, REEL CANADA is reflecting on the incredible success of NCFD 150 – more than 1,800 screenings across Canada and around the world, attended by an estimated 172,000 Canadians with another million watching on air or online. “Really this is a classic case of ‘back by popular demand’,” said Jack Blum ..read more

ACTRA Magazine speaks with Jack Blum and Vinay Virmani about REEL CANADA. Canada for me is all about a diversity celebration that works—a vast range of geographical regions and climates, ethnic subcultures, multicultural families with different roots, newcomers and established clans, Indigenous peoples and gender differences—and it all some- how comes together and functions better than any other country in the world. So for me, the “Canadian story” is always the “Canadian stories,” plural, going right back to our English, French and Indigenous founding cultures. It has never just been one stor ..read more