[1] It is the organization behind National Canadian Film Day, an event in April, inaugurated in 2014.
[2] Reel Canada was founded in 2005 by Jack Blum and Sharon Corder[3] along with a committee of filmmakers and other prominent members of the Canadian film and TV industry, including Colm Feore[4] and Atom Egoyan.
[9][10] The inaugural event, held April 29, 2014, was officially recognized in the House of Commons of Canada.
[13] Due to the COVID-19 pandemic in Canada, the 2020 edition of National Canadian Film Day was staged online, including film screenings on various streaming video on demand platforms and television channels, and a four-hour livestreamed broadcast featuring interviews with Canadian actors and filmmakers.
[15] In 2022, for the first time a National Canadian Film Day event was held outside Canada, with professor Brad Warren and his Canadian wife Tanja organizing a screening of the films Indian Horse, My Internship in Canada (Guibord s'en va-t-en guerre), The Red Violin and Bon Cop, Bad Cop at Coastal Carolina University in Conway, South Carolina.