News: The National Film Board and Vimeo launch new service

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New platform showcasing short films from the Oscar-winning studio is available now

By The Ex-Press

It’s the first rule of drug dealers and encyclopedia salesmen: The first one is always free. And now, the National Film Board will be adopting a similar strategy hoping to get you addicted to short films.

Partnering with Vimeo, the on-line streaming service, the NFB has created NFB Shorts on Demand. The subscription-based, on-demand platform (SVOD) was unveiled in a press release late Wednesday — declaring it available immediately.

One newly added film will always be available for free, but after that, there’s a $4.99 subscription fee for monthly unlimited streaming, a $1.99 single streaming fee, or a $3.99 charge for download-to-own.

The new outlet is designed to showcase the latest work coming out of the acclaimed studio, unlike the current film board website, which allows access to a great deal of the deep and decorated short film archive.

The first shorts on offer include Michèle Cournoyer’s Soif , Cordell Barker’s If I Was God… , Claude Cloutier’s Carface, Sarah Van Den Boom’s In Deep Waters, Randall Okita’s The Weatherman and the Shadowboxer. Other titles include Bruce Alcock’s Impromptu, Chris Landreth’s Subconscious Password, Félix Dufour-Laperrière’s The Day Is Listening, presented at the Rotterdam film festival, Mike Maryniuk’s Home Cooked Music, Hart Snider’s The Basketball Game, Andrea Dorfman’s Big Mouth, Jill Sharpe’s Bone Wind Fire, No Fish Where to Go, by Nicola Lemay and Janice Nadeau, and Bus Story by Tali.