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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Gaywaves
Significant bequest from gay rights activist and broadcaster, Dietmar Hollman
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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.
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Acquisition highlights
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).
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Crawford Productions donation
The NFSA receives a major television donation from Crawford Productions.
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50 Australian colour films restored
The NFSA Kodak/Atlab project restores 50 Australian colour feature films over five years.
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INXS
The NFSA acquires the first consignment of a major sound recording collection of INXS material.
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The Sentimental Bloke lives again
The NFSA restoration of The Sentimental Bloke is a hit with audiences 85 years after the original film’s release.
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Australian Film Commission merger
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.
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Family memories saved from fire
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.
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Acquisition highlights
Acquisition highlights include papers covering the career of Australian producer Anthony Buckley and animation cels from Dot and the Kangaroo (1977).
