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NFB films to be featured in TUBI Canada, USA and Australia

11-07-2022
The National Film Board of Canada (NFB) and Tubi have signed a new distribution deal, which will bring acclaimed NFB films to Tubi, FOX’s free ad-supported video-on-demand platform, across Canada, the U.S. and Australia.

The NFB is an Oscar-winning source of powerful storytelling, and Tubi is kicking off an ongoing relationship with the NFB with 29 titles, available now for free—films that showcase the NFB’s strength in award-winning, socially engaged documentaries. 'We are thrilled to have our films on Tubi’s platform. This partnership, which perfectly aligns with our digital strategy, will allow us to grow our audience', said Nathalie Bourdon, the NFB’s Director of Distribution and Market Development.

'We’re so pleased to partner with the National Film Board of Canada to bring their premium, thought-provoking and award-winning slate of documentaries to our service for viewers to discover and enjoy', added Adam Lewinson, Chief Content Officer, Tubi. This is just the start for the NFB on Tubi, with films coming throughout the year. New and classic NFB works now available include:

Angry Inuk (NFB/Unikkaat Studios/EyeSteelFilm), Inuk filmmaker Alethea Arnaquq-Baril’s powerful challenge to the anti-sealing movement: it has won the Audience Award at Hot Docs and one of Canada’s Top Ten Films, selected by the Toronto International Film Festival. The Apology, Tiffany Hsiung’s exploration of the lives of three former “comfort women,” kidnapped and forced into military sexual slavery by the Imperial Japanese Army during World War II, winner of a Peabody Award and the Busan Cinephile Award for Best World Documentary at the Busan International Film Festival

A Better Man (Intervention Productions/NFB), Attiya Khan and Lawrence Jackman’s empowering look at how healing can happen when men take responsibility for their domestic abuse. Top Twenty Audience Favourite at Hot Docs and winner of the Sabeen Mahmud Award for Courage in Cinema at the Mosaic International South Asian Film Festival. Out of Mind, Out of Sight (JS Kastner Productions/NFB), the late John Kastner’s final film with the NFB, exploring what happens to people who suffer from mental illnesses and commit violent crimes—where do they go and how are they treated? It has been the "Best Canadian Feature Documentary" at Hot Docs
 
The Rose Family by Montreal filmmaker Félix Rose, who tries to understand what led his father and uncle, members of the Front de libération du Québec, to kidnap cabinet minister Pierre Laporte—unleashing an unprecedented crisis. It has been the winner of the Prix Iris Public Prize at the Quebec Cinema Awards. And  Unarmed Verses by Charles Officer, a portrait of a Toronto community facing imposed relocation that focusses on 12-year-old Francine Valentine, whose observations about life, the soul and the power of art give voice to those rarely heard in society. As the "Best Canadian Feature Documentary" at Hot Docs and one of Canada’s Top Ten Films, selected by the Toronto International Film Festival
 

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