![]() ![]() The NFB has a long and distinguished history at the Oscars, with NFB productions and co-productions garnering more Academy Award nominations than any other film organization based outside of Hollywood. ![]() Inspired by the incredible true-life story of a man blown two kilometres through the air by the 1917 Halifax Explosion-the largest accidental non-nuclear explosion in history- The Flying Sailor is an exhilarating meditation on the wonder and fragility of being.įorbis and Tilby are Calgary-based animators who have shared Best Animated Short Film Academy Award nominations for When the Day Breaks (1999) and Wild Life (2011), with Tilby also nominated individually for Strings (1991). A National Film Board of Canada (NFB) production, the film is the latest work by the Oscar-nominated and Palme d’Or-winning duo of Amanda Forbis and Wendy Tilby. The award-winning animated short film The Flying Sailor is available on The New Yorker’s digital channels today, November 18, as part of the magazine’s award-winning Screening Room series. Novem– Montreal – National Film Board of Canada ![]()
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