{"id":266989,"date":"2020-08-29T06:36:30","date_gmt":"2020-08-29T10:36:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=266989"},"modified":"2020-08-29T06:36:30","modified_gmt":"2020-08-29T10:36:30","slug":"nfb-short-filmmaking-featured-at-tiff-2020-world-premiere-of-4-north-a-by-acclaimed-toronto-based-filmmakers-jordan-canning-and-howie-shia-at-the-toronto-international-film-festival","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2020\/08\/29\/nfb-short-filmmaking-featured-at-tiff-2020-world-premiere-of-4-north-a-by-acclaimed-toronto-based-filmmakers-jordan-canning-and-howie-shia-at-the-toronto-international-film-festival\/","title":{"rendered":"NFB short filmmaking featured at TIFF 2020. 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font-family:Arial,sans-serif; font-size:14px; font-style:normal; font-weight:550; line-height:18px;\"> View this post on Instagram<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div style=\"padding: 12.5% 0;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"display: flex; flex-direction: row; margin-bottom: 14px; align-items: center;\">\n<div>\n<div style=\"background-color: #F4F4F4; border-radius: 50%; height: 12.5px; width: 12.5px; transform: translateX(0px) translateY(7px);\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"background-color: #F4F4F4; height: 12.5px; transform: rotate(-45deg) translateX(3px) translateY(1px); width: 12.5px; flex-grow: 0; margin-right: 14px; margin-left: 2px;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"background-color: #F4F4F4; border-radius: 50%; height: 12.5px; width: 12.5px; transform: translateX(9px) translateY(-18px);\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div style=\"margin-left: 8px;\">\n<div style=\" background-color: #F4F4F4; border-radius: 50%; flex-grow: 0; height: 20px; width: 20px;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\" width: 0; height: 0; border-top: 2px solid transparent; 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It has just been announced that it will be having its world premier in competition at @ottawa.animationfestival this fall. Honored and privileged for the opportunity to share the film at such an iconic festival and to have worked with such a stunning crew: @amc4025 , @nfbfukushima , @kellydscribe , @mirandaquesnel , @duncanmajor , @slymaninstaking , @jenny_tra_la_la , @mit_kamera , @geofftwochords , isabelle lussier and the whole @onf_nfb crowd. #oiaf20<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\" color:#c9c8cd; font-family:Arial,sans-serif; font-size:14px; line-height:17px; margin-bottom:0; margin-top:8px; overflow:hidden; padding:8px 0 7px; text-align:center; text-overflow:ellipsis; white-space:nowrap;\">A post shared by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/howie_ppf\/?utm_source=ig_embed&amp;utm_campaign=loading\" style=\" color:#c9c8cd; font-family:Arial,sans-serif; font-size:14px; font-style:normal; font-weight:normal; line-height:17px;\" target=\"_blank\"> Howie Shia<\/a> (@howie_ppf) on <time style=\" font-family:Arial,sans-serif; font-size:14px; line-height:17px;\" datetime=\"2020-07-17T20:30:48+00:00\">Jul 17, 2020 at 1:30pm PDT<\/time><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>August 25, 2020 \u2013 Toronto \u2013 National Film Board of Canada (NFB)<\/p>\n<p>The\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.tiff.net\/about-tiff-20\">Toronto International Film Festival<\/a>\u00a0is presenting the world premiere of\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=hU_z_pzf1fk&amp;feature=youtu.be\"><strong><em>4 North A<\/em><\/strong><\/a><strong><em>,\u00a0<\/em><\/strong>a new\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nfb.ca\/\">National Film Board of Canada<\/a>\u00a0animated short directed by Jordan Canning and Howie Shia, and written by Jordan Canning.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe idea for\u00a0<strong><em>4 North A<\/em><\/strong>\u00a0grew out of memories my mother told me about, of summers she\u2019d spent on Amherst Island as a child. I was struck by the recurrence of animals and death in her descriptions and began connecting them to a story of her tending her father\u2019s final days in the hospital. Later, as I too found myself providing care for a beloved partner, I started imagining what it might have been like if my mother and I had been strangers in the same ward, going through these painful experiences\u2014alone, but together.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u2013 Jordan Canning<\/p>\n<p>Canning and Shia\u2019s short is part of an NFB selection at TIFF that includes Michelle Latimer\u2019s new feature documentary\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/vimeo.com\/447509564\/d31ec4a4ac\"><strong><em>Inconvenient Indian<\/em><\/strong><\/a>\u00a0(<a href=\"https:\/\/www.90thparallel.ca\/\">90th Parallel Productions<\/a>\/National Film Board of Canada).<\/p>\n<p><strong><u>Public screening schedule<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><em>4 North A<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><u>Press and industry screening:<\/u><br \/>\nSeptember 10 | 11:00 a.m. EST | TIFF Digital Cinema Pro (online, accredited access only)<\/p>\n<p><u>Public screenings:<\/u><br \/>\nSeptember 11| 6:00 p.m. EST | Bell Digital Cinema (online, geo-restricted to Canada)<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>Inconvenient Indian<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><u>Press and industry screening:<\/u><br \/>\nSeptember 11 | 11:00 a.m. EST | TIFF Digital Cinema Pro<strong>\u00a0<\/strong>(online, accredited access only)<\/p>\n<p><u>Public screenings:<\/u><br \/>\nSeptember 12 | 4:45 p.m. EST | TIFF Bell Lightbox Cinema 1<br \/>\nSeptember 12 | 5:15 p.m. EST | TIFF Bell Lightbox Cinema 2<br \/>\nSeptember 13 | 6:00 p.m. EST | Bell Digital Cinema (online, geo-restricted to Canada)<br \/>\nSeptember 17 | 5:00 p.m. EST | TIFF Bell Lightbox Cinema 2<\/p>\n<p><strong><u>About\u00a0<em>4 North A<\/em><\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>A woman sits in a hospital room, alone with her dying father. As the constant din of antiseptic hospital noises pushes her to confront her inevitable loss, she escapes into a series of lush childhood memories.<\/p>\n<p>With its quiet yet expressive soundtrack, and a beautiful, subdued design that shifts between the pale palette of the hospital and the lively, painterly landscapes of the woman\u2019s memories,\u00a0<strong><em>4 North A<\/em><\/strong>\u00a0is a deeply personal film about mortality, memory, and discovering connection in unlikely spaces.<\/p>\n<p><strong><u>The creators of\u00a0<em>4 North A<\/em><\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><em>4 North A<\/em><\/strong>\u00a0is the first-ever collaboration between Jordan Canning and Howie Shia.<\/p>\n<p>Canning\u2019s film credits include her features\u00a0<em>We Were Wolves<\/em>\u00a0(TIFF 2014) and\u00a0<em>Suck it Up<\/em>, named Best Feature Film at the 2017 B3 Biennale in Frankfurt, her multi-award-winning 2010 animated short\u00a0<em>Not Over Easy<\/em>, as well as her directorial work on the TV series\u00a0<em>Baroness Von Sketch Show<\/em>,\u00a0<em>Burden of Truth<\/em>\u00a0and\u00a0<em>Schitt&#8217;s Creek<\/em>. Canning is originally from Newfoundland and Labrador.<\/p>\n<p>This is the fifth NFB short for the Saskatoon-born Shia, including his 2006 film,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nfb.ca\/film\/flutter_en\/\"><strong><em>Flutter<\/em><\/strong><\/a>, the first work from outside Asia to win the prestigious Open Entries Grand Prize at the Tokyo Anime Awards, as well as\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nfb.ca\/film\/bam\/\"><strong><em>BAM<\/em><\/strong><\/a>\u00a0(TIFF 2015), which was nominated for Best Animated Short at the 4th Canadian Screen Awards.<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>4 North A<\/em><\/strong>\u00a0is produced by Annette Clarke and executive produced by Annette Clarke (NFB Quebec and Atlantic Studio) and Michael Fukushima (NFB English Animation Studio), and was developed in association with The Newfoundland &amp; Labrador Film Development Corporation<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>View this post on Instagram I was very lucky a few years ago to have the amazing @jjhcanning invite me &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":266990,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,106],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-266989","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","category-hollywood","mauthors-national-film-board","mauthors-government-of-canada"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/266989","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=266989"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/266989\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":266991,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/266989\/revisions\/266991"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/266990"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=266989"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=266989"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=266989"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}