• 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

    • 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

    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

    • 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.

    • Display Year: 2008

    • Indigenous smoking ceremony at the NFSA on 1 July 2008. NFSA title: 763091

    Statutory authority

    The NFSA becomes an independent statutory authority on 1 July.

    • Display Year: 2007

    The NFSA launches Sounds of Australia to promote and celebrate the nation’s sound heritage.

    • Display Year: 2005

    • Detail from The Year My Voice Broke poster, 1987. NFSA title: 752175

    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).

    • Display Year: 2005

    • Frank Taylor, Gerard Kennedy, Chuck Faulkner and Terence Donovan in Division 4, 1975. NFSA title: 685309

    • John Fegan, Terry McDermott and Lex Mitchell in Homicide, 1964. NFSA title: 476612

    • Denise Drysdale and Gerard Kennedy in Division 4, 1969. NFSA title: 592385

    Crawford Productions donation

    The NFSA receives a major television donation from Crawford Productions.

    • Display Year: 2004

    • INXS, 1984. Courtesy Warner Music. NFSA title: 469289

    INXS

    The NFSA acquires the first consignment of a major sound recording collection of INXS material.

    • Display Year: 2004

    A new Indigenous unit is created to oversee development of the NFSA’s Indigenous audiovisual collection.

    • Display Year: 2004

    Paolo Cherchi Usai is appointed as the new NFSA Director.

    • Display Year: 2003

    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.

    • Display Year: 2003

    • Fire damaged photos at the NFSA, 2003.

    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.

    • Display Year: 2002

    • Dot and the Kangaroo animation cel, 1977. Courtesy Yoram Gross Films. NFSA title: 497255

    Acquisition highlights

    Acquisition highlights include papers covering the career of Australian producer Anthony Buckley and animation cels from Dot and the Kangaroo (1977).

    • Display Year: 2002

    The NFSA’s still image preservation services switch from analogue preservation processing to digital formats.

    • Display Year: 2002

    • The Sentimental Bloke, 1919. NFSA Title: 357027

    Preserving our heritage

    The NFSA repairs and copies The Sentimental Bloke (1919), incorporating newly discovered material, and the nitrate print of Neptune’s Daughter (1914), starring Australian swimmer/actor Annette Kellerman.

    • Display Year: 2001

    • Sights + Sounds of a Nation exhibition. Photo courtesy Australian Capital Tourism

    Sights + Sounds of a Nation

    A major permanent exhibition, Sights + Sounds of a Nation, opens at the NFSA in February.

    • Display Year: 2000

    • Leonard Teale, Terry McDermott and John Fegan in Homicide, 1964. NFSA title: 489007

    1000 scripts donated

    The Australian Writers’ Guild donates 1000 film, television and radio scripts to the NFSA.

    • Display Year: 2000

    Volunteer advocacy group the Friends of the NFSA is formed.

    • Display Year: 1990s

    Click ‘Read More’ to see further highlights from the 1990s including work with tertiary institutions and UNESCO.

    • Display Year: 1999

    • Extension to NFSA building in progress, 1998

    A bigger building

    Major extensions to the NFSA building are opened in June by Prime Minister John Howard.