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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Significant bequest from gay rights activist and broadcaster, Dietmar Hollman
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.
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 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.
New additions to the NFSA collection in 2005 include 35mm feature film prints of Moulin Rouge! (2001), Survivor (1981), The Silver Brumby (1993), Dingo (1991) and The Year My Voice Broke (1987).
The NFSA receives a major television donation from Crawford Productions.
The NFSA Kodak/Atlab project restores 50 Australian colour feature films over five years.
The NFSA acquires the first consignment of a major sound recording collection of INXS material.
The NFSA restoration of The Sentimental Bloke is a hit with audiences 85 years after the original film’s release.
The federal government merges the NFSA with the Australian Film Commission from 1 July. An estimated 800 people attend two ‘Save ScreenSound’ rallies in Canberra, which attract wide media attention, and stakeholder groups lobby for NFSA statutory autonomy. The following year, the ScreenSound brand is dropped and the name returns to National Film and Sound Archive.
The NFSA restores family photos from a major bushfire in the ACT that destroys or severely damages more than 500 homes and kills four people.