An intensive apprenticeship in real-world animation filmmaking, Hothouse takes a handful of promising filmmakers, plants them in NFB's English Animation Studio and gives them 12 weeks to create a very short film.

A brilliant novel and instant New York Times bestseller from the author of Where'd You Go, Bernadette, about a day in the life of Eleanor Flood, forced to abandon her small ambitions and awake to a strange, new future.
Eleanor knows she's a mess. But today, she will tackle the little things. She will shower and get dressed. She will have her poetry and yoga lessons after dropping off her son, Timby. She won't swear. She will initiate...

When 28-year-old wannabe animator Gord Brody leaves the safety of his parent's home to make it big in Hollywood, all sorts of sureal gross-out mayhem breaks loose in hospital rooms, with paraplegic nymphos, in a cheese factory, with farm animals, and much more. When Gord returns to his parent's home in Portland, Or. to focus on his drawings full time, he gets into conflict with his father, who wishes he would grow up and be more like his brother Freddy...

Part biography, part live performance, tells the life story of visual artist and performer, Wayne White.

Brings together the complete works of Norman McLaren, from his initial experiments in Scotland in 1933 to his final NFB film in 1983, featuring 40 films, tests, unfinished films and support material (photographs, audio clips and more), along with 15 original documentaries contextualizing McLaren's work and his creative process.