It is important to know that the NFB has production centres across the country. We have locations in St. John, Halifax, Moncton, Montreal, Toronto, Edmonton, Saskatoon and Vancouver. We have producers all over the country. The films we produce around the country reflect the collective Canadian reality.
In short, the subject matter dealt with is really the key to making that happen. We won't set out specifically to make a film about history. What we do is focus on a variety of subjects in certain communities, enabling us to build that historical corpus. That is the beauty of our collection of 13,000 films. It gives us the ability to compile works by event. We have a tremendous number of productions with a historical dimension that allow us to achieve that objective. The key is through the variety of our production content.
Every year, we produce a hundred or so works on a range of subjects affecting Canadians, subjects not normally dealt with by the private sector.
One approach taken by the NFB, as a public producer, is to really target works that the private sector could not create. That means more challenging works with less commercial appeal that matter to Canadians nevertheless.