YouTube, NFB Strike Deal for Oscar Shorts

MONTREAL, June 20: The
National Film Board of Canada (NFB) will feature seven animated shorts on
YouTube’s new channel The Screening Room.

The NFB shorts launch on
The Screening Room today with Oscar-winner The Danish Poet by Torill Kove. The Danish Poet follows a man whose creativity seems to have run
out, until he meets a famous writer while on holiday in Norway. The next
animated short to launch will be Ryan by Chris Landreth. The animated documentary is inspired by the life
of Ryan Larkin, a Canadian animator.

—By Kristin
Brzoznowski