June 14, 2025 – Montreal – National Film Board of Canada (NFB)

(NFB) short films celebrating will , immediately following the 2025 (GGPAA) celebration at Ottawa’s National Arts Centre.

Canadians will be able to watch these to this year’s laureates on as well as (in English) and (in French).

Each year, the NFB works to find the of director, concept and laureate—producing portraits of distinguished Canadians that also stand on their own as . This year’s films are directed by accomplished Canadian filmmakers and .

The NFB’s GGPAA film collection now totals created over a 17-year partnership with the that began back in 2008.

• The recipient of this year’s Ramon John Hnatyshyn Award for Voluntarism in the Performing Arts, is a Halifax-based performance artist, arts administrator and Mad Disability advocate. follows her trajectory from excluded performer to revolutionary force in Nova Scotia’s arts scene as she transforms artistic spaces. Hubbard shatters perceptions through captivating performances while creating accessible opportunities for all artists—embodying a creative liberation that transcends physical limitations and a vision that knows no boundaries.

Tara Johns is an Alberta-born writer-director who’s built her cinematic career in Montreal. Tara’s debut short film, Killing Time, was awarded Best Canadian Short at the 2001 Toronto Worldwide Short Film Festival and named one of the Top 10 Best Québécois Shorts of the Decade at the Rendez-vous du cinéma québécois. Tara was most recently tapped by MarVista Entertainment to direct Our Christmas Mural for Hallmark and is currently in development on her new original feature project, Good Bones, with Palomar Films.

Director, actress, screenwriter, writer and producer Monique LeBlanc is a prominent figure in Eastern Canada’s film industry, working in both documentary and fiction. Acclaimed recent credits include her 2020 adaptation of Louise Dupré’s book of poetry, (2020), and The Geographies of DAR (2023), her fourth feature documentary and fifth collaboration with the NFB. 

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