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The NFSA restores a modern classic with generous help from Australia’s film lovers.
The NFSA restores a modern classic with generous help from Australia’s film lovers.
A new online exhibition celebrates the Australian rock’n’roll icon.
NFSA CEO Michael Loebenstein launches the discussion paper Deadline 2025: Collections at Risk.
NFSA Restores brings the classics back to the big screen.
The NFSA announces its first Ambassador, Margaret Pomeranz.
The NFSA celebrates Picnic at Hanging Rock with an online exhibition and a 40th anniversary screening.
The NFSA and Nga Taonga Sound & Vision launch a joint website to commemorate the Centenary of the First World War.
The NFSA celebrates the 20th anniversary of Muriel’s Wedding with an online exhibition and a special screening.
The National Film and Sound Archive celebrates 30 years since Prime Minister, Bob Hawke officially opened the building on 3 October 1984. The NFSA continues to collect, preserve and share Australia’s audiovisual heritage.
The NFSA releases a previously unheard interview with The Beatles to commemorate the 50th anniversary of their Australian tour.
In March, Stiff Gins perform in the NFSA theatrette for the Black Chat program. In 2013, they visit the NFSA to record a unique wax cylinder.
David Bridie headlines the first 100 Seats event, part of a program of unique and intimate sessions with renowned performers exploring their ideas and art in our new theatrette.
The NFSA throws a 20th birthday party for The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert complete with special guests, outdoor screening and online exhibition.
The NFSA marks 100 years of the Film Australia Collection and Australian Government filmmaking.
The NFSA’s digital restoration of Wrong Side of the Road (1981) premieres at the 60th Sydney Film Festival with many of the original cast and crew reunited for the event.
The NFSA’s open-air screening and live music event for the Centenary of Canberra attracts 4000 people to the Senate Rose Gardens at Old Parliament House.
Gotye comes to the NFSA in February for a full day and evening of public events, including the launch of interactive sculpture Fractured Heart.
The Art of Sound inaugural exhibition is held in January at the Grafton Regional Gallery in New South Wales.
The NFSA collection now numbers over two million items.
Click ‘Read More’ to see further highlights from 2013, including Urthboy at the NFSA, a new collection storage facility and Digitise or Perish.
The NFSA acquires the crown and throne belonging to Graham Kennedy, the ‘King of Australian television’.
On 31 May the NFSA releases a DVD compilation, From Malo’s Law to Native Title: 1898 to 1998, commemorating the 20th anniversary of Mabo Day.
Prime Minister Julia Gillard gives Timor-Leste’s Prime Minister Xanana Gusmao a photographic still from a rare and iconic film in the NFSA collection.
Click ‘Read More’ to see further highlights from 2012, including Giorgio Mangiamele and Antarctica 100.
The NFSA Deluxe/Kodak project restores a further 25 notable Australian feature films.
A work inspired by the NFSA-restored Corrick collection of early silent films debuts at the Sydney Festival to sell-out crowds.
Michael Loebenstein is appointed as the new NFSA CEO.
In December the NFSA launches the Heath Ledger Young Artists Oral History Project.
The NFSA honours the life and work of pioneer filmmaker Marius Sestier, who shot Australia’s earliest surviving films.
The NFSA presents the first Cochrane Smith Award for Sound Heritage.
On the eve of the first anniversary of the Prime Minister’s Apology to the Stolen Generations, William Barton is interviewed and performs at the NFSA.
The NFSA-restored Wake in Fright screens at the 2009 Cannes Film Festival and is re-released in Australian cinemas.
On 18 September the NFSA, in collaboration with the Australian Centre for the Moving Image, opens the Australian Mediatheque in Melbourne.
Dr Darryl McIntyre is appointed as the new NFSA CEO.
The NFSA Indigenous Collections Branch visits Yirrkala in north-east Arnhem Land, Northern Territory to repatriate audiovisual materials to the Buku-Larnnggay Mulka Multimedia Archive and Production Centre.
The NFSA becomes an independent statutory authority on 1 July.
The NFSA’s state-of-the-art screening venue, Arc cinema, opens in August.
The NFSA launches Sounds of Australia to promote and celebrate the nation’s sound heritage.
The NFSA digitally restores The Story of the Kelly Gang (1906), considered to be the world’s first feature-length film, to mark the centenary of its premiere.