• Display Year: 2016

    The new NFSA website

    The redeveloped nfsa.gov.au offers a mobile, responsive experience to better discover and share our collection.

    • Display Year: 2016

    • The new NFSA logo, 2016.

    Return of the kookaburra

    The NFSA relaunches its visual identity in November with the return of an old friend.

    • Display Year: 2016

    Click ‘Read More’ to see further highlights from 2016 including our largest collection item and 60 years of television.

    • Display Year: 2015

    • The NFSA launches Deadline 2025: Collections at Risk, October 2015.

    Deadline 2025

    NFSA CEO Michael Loebenstein launches the discussion paper Deadline 2025: Collections at Risk.

    • Display Year: 2015

    • An Australian artillery crew in the Greek port town of Salonika (now Thessaloniki), 1915. NFSA title: 20923

    Anzac Sights and Sounds

    The NFSA and Nga Taonga Sound & Vision launch a joint website to commemorate the Centenary of the First World War.

    • Display Year: 2015

    Click ‘Read More’ to see further highlights from 2015 including rare swimming footage, the arrival of colour TV and Oral History interviews.

    • Display Year: 2014

    • Celebrating 30 years of the NFSA, 1984-2014.

    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.

    • Display Year: 2014

    Binny Lum and The Beatles

    The NFSA releases a previously unheard interview with The Beatles to commemorate the 50th anniversary of their Australian tour.

    • Display Year: 2014

    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.

    • Display Year: 2014

    • 100 Seats: Nights to Remember at the NFSA, March 2014.

    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.

    • Display Year: 2014

    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.

    • Display Year: 2013

    • Wrong Side of the Road cast and crew reunion at the Sydney Film Festival, June 2013.

    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.

    • Display Year: 2013

    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.

    • Display Year: 2013

    • Gotye with Fractured Heart at the NFSA, February 2013.

    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.

    • Display Year: 2013

    • Rona Green, 'Hud and Mugsy' (2008), linocut, watercolour and ink on paper.

    The Art of Sound

    The Art of Sound inaugural exhibition is held in January at the Grafton Regional Gallery in New South Wales.

    • Display Year: 2013

    Click ‘Read More’ to see further highlights from 2013, including Urthboy at the NFSA, a new collection storage facility and Digitise or Perish.

    • Display Year: 2012

    • Eric Pearce (left) after presenting Graham Kennedy with his crown. NFSA title: 684373

    Crown fit for a king

    The NFSA acquires the crown and throne belonging to Graham Kennedy, the ‘King of Australian television’.

    • Display Year: 2012

    • Zenadh Kes Mari at DVD launch of 'From Malo's Law to Native Title: 1898 to 1998'.

    • Mabo: Life of an Island Man (1997) DVD cover.

    • Gail Mabo at the launch of the DVD From Malo’s Law to Native Title: 1898 to 1998, NFSA, Canberra.

    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.

    • Display Year: 2012

    • The Hon Julia Gillard presents a film still to Timor-Leste’s Prime Minister, Xanana Gusmao.

    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.

    • Display Year: 2012

    Click ‘Read More’ to see further highlights from 2012, including Giorgio Mangiamele and Antarctica 100.

    • Display Year: 2011

    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.

    • Display Year: 2011

    Michael Loebenstein is appointed as the new NFSA CEO.

    • Display Year: 2010
    • Audience sitting beneath cinema screen showing a close-up of Heath Ledger

      The Heath Ledger Young Artists Oral History Project launch, December 2010.

    Heath Ledger Oral History Project

    In December the NFSA launches the Heath Ledger Young Artists Oral History Project.

    • Display Year: 2010

    • Robert Sestier and Marie-Dominique Petitbois with the Hon Peter Garrett AM MP

    Honouring Marius Sestier

    The NFSA honours the life and work of pioneer filmmaker Marius Sestier, who shot Australia’s earliest surviving films.

    • Display Year: 2009

    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.

    • Display Year: 2009

    Gaywaves

    Significant bequest from gay rights activist and broadcaster, Dietmar Hollman

    • Display Year: 2009

    • Gary Bond in Wake in Fright, 1971. Courtesy of the Wake in Fright Trustees. NFSA title: 775732

    Wake in Fright

    The NFSA-restored Wake in Fright screens at the 2009 Cannes Film Festival and is re-released in Australian cinemas.

    • Display Year: 2008

    • The Australian Mediatheque at ACMI, Melbourne.

    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.

    • Display Year: 2008

    Dr Darryl McIntyre is appointed as the new NFSA CEO.