Gaëtan Bruel, the former director of French Cultural Services in the U.S., has been appointed president of France's National ...

In addition to making his own highly regarded films, he oversaw the creation of Studio D, the world’s first government-funded ...

Robert Verrall, a pioneering Canadian animator, director and film producer with the National Film Board of Canada, has died. He was 97. Verrall died in Montreal on Friday from unspecified causes ...

Robert Verrall, an influential figure in Canadian animation and a revered National Film Board (NFB) filmmaker and producer, passed away on January 17, 2025, at the age of 97. His extraordinary ...

Canadian animator and director Robert Verrall has died at the age of 97. The National Film Board of Canada says the Oscar-nominated filmmaker died Monday in Montreal. The Toronto-born Verrall was ...

Gaëtan Bruel, the former director of the French Cultural Services in the U.S., has been appointed president of France’s National Film Board (CNC), the country’s most powerful film institution.

The Toronto-born Verrall was considered a film pioneer at the NFB, having worked at the agency for more than 40 years after being hired by acclaimed Canadian animator Norman McLaren in 1945.