Australians & Hollywood
The NFSA announces a blockbuster exhibition opening in January 2022.
The NFSA announces a blockbuster exhibition opening in January 2022.
In March we launch Mervyn Bishop: Australian Photojournalist, an exhibition celebrating one of Australia’s most prolific and influential photographers.
A technological world first for the NFSA.
Game Masters: The Exhibition opens and the NFSA begins collecting and preserving Australian video games.
Our online exhibition celebrates the majesty of Skippy.
We supply 70% of the footage used in the landmark four-part series Australia in Colour.
We present an immersive virtual reality journey of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander song and dance.
We produce a short documentary about Starstruck: Australian Movie Portraits when the exhibition opens in Adelaide.
The NFSA wins the national title in the international Museum Dance Off competition 2018!
The redeveloped nfsa.gov.au offers a mobile, responsive experience to better discover and share our collection.
The NFSA’s 20th anniversary screening of Shine reunited pianist David Helfgott with actor Geoffrey Rush.
NFSA Restores brings the classics back to the big screen.
The NFSA celebrates Picnic at Hanging Rock with an online exhibition and a 40th anniversary screening.
The NFSA celebrates the 20th anniversary of Muriel’s Wedding with an online exhibition and a special screening.
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.
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 open-air screening and live music event for the Centenary of Canberra attracts 4000 people to the Senate Rose Gardens at Old Parliament House.
A work inspired by the NFSA-restored Corrick collection of early silent films debuts at the Sydney Festival to sell-out crowds.
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 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.
Big Screen commences touring Australian films to regional centres in 2001.
The Radio with Pictures interview project commences. It includes filmed oral histories with prominent media personalities such as Bruce Gyngell AO.
A cake tin donated to the NFSA contains 24 minutes of the previously lost bushranger film Thunderbolt (1910).
The NFSA launches Operation Newsreel.
The Australian Image series is televised nationally.
On 3 October 1984, Prime Minister the Hon Bob Hawke officially opens the NFSA’s new headquarters in Canberra.
Former federal government minister Barry Cohen recalls the separation of the NFSA from the National Library of Australia.