Crowdfunding helps us restore Proof
The NFSA restores a modern classic with generous help from Australia’s film lovers.
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Johnny O’Keefe: a little bit louder now
A new online exhibition celebrates the Australian rock’n’roll icon.
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Deadline 2025
NFSA CEO Michael Loebenstein launches the discussion paper Deadline 2025: Collections at Risk.
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NFSA Restores premiere screenings
NFSA Restores brings the classics back to the big screen.
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NFSA Ambassador: Margaret Pomeranz
The NFSA announces its first Ambassador, Margaret Pomeranz.
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Picnic at Hanging Rock: 40 Years of Mystery
The NFSA celebrates Picnic at Hanging Rock with an online exhibition and a 40th anniversary screening.
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Anzac Sights and Sounds
The NFSA and Nga Taonga Sound & Vision launch a joint website to commemorate the Centenary of the First World War.
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Muriel’s Wedding: Renewing our vows
The NFSA celebrates the 20th anniversary of Muriel’s Wedding with an online exhibition and a special screening.
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Binny Lum and The Beatles
The NFSA releases a previously unheard interview with The Beatles to commemorate the 50th anniversary of their Australian tour.
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Black Chat: Stiff Gins
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.
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100 Seats: David Bridie
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.
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Priscilla: 20 Years Young
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.
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Film Australia Collection turns 100
The NFSA marks 100 years of the Film Australia Collection and Australian Government filmmaking.
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Wrong Side of the Road reunion
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.
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Centenary of Canberra
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.
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Gotye@NFSA
Gotye comes to the NFSA in February for a full day and evening of public events, including the launch of interactive sculpture Fractured Heart.
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The Art of Sound
The Art of Sound inaugural exhibition is held in January at the Grafton Regional Gallery in New South Wales.
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Two million collection items and growing
The NFSA collection now numbers over two million items.
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Crown fit for a king
The NFSA acquires the crown and throne belonging to Graham Kennedy, the ‘King of Australian television’.
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Mabo Day Black Screen DVD
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.
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NFSA recognises Timor-Leste 10th anniversary
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.
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25 more Australian films preserved
The NFSA Deluxe/Kodak project restores a further 25 notable Australian feature films.
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The Corrick Collection
A work inspired by the NFSA-restored Corrick collection of early silent films debuts at the Sydney Festival to sell-out crowds.
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Heath Ledger Oral History Project
In December the NFSA launches the Heath Ledger Young Artists Oral History Project.
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Honouring Marius Sestier
The NFSA honours the life and work of pioneer filmmaker Marius Sestier, who shot Australia’s earliest surviving films.
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Cochrane Smith Award for Sound Heritage
The NFSA presents the first Cochrane Smith Award for Sound Heritage.
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William Barton at the NFSA
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.
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Wake in Fright
The NFSA-restored Wake in Fright screens at the 2009 Cannes Film Festival and is re-released in Australian cinemas.
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The Australian Mediatheque opens
On 18 September the NFSA, in collaboration with the Australian Centre for the Moving Image, opens the Australian Mediatheque in Melbourne.
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Repatriation
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.
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Statutory authority
The NFSA becomes an independent statutory authority on 1 July.
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A world class cinema experience
The NFSA’s state-of-the-art screening venue, Arc cinema, opens in August.
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Restoring the world’s first feature film
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.
