The National Film Board of Canada (NFB) selection at the 2024 Edmonton International Film Festival (EIFF) will feature powerful documentary and animated storytelling while showcasing the talents of a number of Edmonton and Alberta artists.
Taking place September 26 to October 5, EIFF will present three new NFB films, including the award-winning Banger Films/NFB feature documentary Any Other Way: The Jackie Shane Story, directed by Edmonton-born filmmaker Michael Mabbott and Lucah Rosenberg-Lee, in which a 20th-century musical icon finally gets her second act.
EIFF is also showcasing two dazzling NFB animated shorts.
Michif/Métis creator Amanda Strong's Spotted Spotted Fawn Productions/NFB co-pro Inkwo for When the Starving Return is a stop-motion animated adaptation of a short story by Richard Van Camp, in which a gender-shifting warrior uses their Indigenous medicine (Inkwo) to protect their community from a swarm of terrifying creatures-featuring such voice talents as Paulina Alexis and Tantoo Cardinal, both from Alberta.
In Quebec animation filmmaker Véronique Paquette's LOCA, a woman finds the path to freedom through the energy of tango, in a mesmerizing visual performance created with waves of ink and black-and-white geometric shapes.
About the films
Any Other Way: The Jackie Shane Story by Michael Mabbott and Lucah Rosenberg-Lee (99 min)
Produced by Amanda Burt, Sam Dunn, Scot McFadyen, Michael Mabbott and Justine Pimlott (NFB)
Executive produced by Scot McFadyen, Sam Dunn, Chanda Chevannes (NFB), Anita Lee (NFB), Elliot Page and Matt Jordan Smith (PAGEBOY Productions), Martin Katz, Nia Long and CJ Mac
Produced in association with Bell Media
Original music by Murray Lightburn
Animation directed by Luca Tarantini and Jared Raab
