Media releases

Forty two years after the distinctive opening guitar riff of one of Australia’s best loved rock anthems detonated across Australian radio, a rarely seen experimental colourised version of Daddy Cool’s iconic promotional film clip for 'Eagle Rock’ has recently been found and restored by the National Film and Sound Archive of Australia (NFSA).

The Art of Sound, a new exhibition which examines the intersections between sound and the visual arts, will be open to the public at the Holmes à Court Gallery at Vasse Felix from 9 June – 15 September, presented in partnership with the National Film and Sound Archive of Australia (NFSA).

The National Film and Sound Archive of Australia (NFSA) has acquired a motion picture film scanner for the digitisation of its extensive holdings of 16mm film in the national audiovisual collection.

Sound designer Damian Candusso will present a free talk on How sound is designed and used in the new wave of digital 3D feature films at the NFSA on 18 April 2013.

A digital restoration of 1981’s ground-breaking film Wrong Side of the Road, the first ever Australian feature starring an all-Indigenous cast, will have its world premiere at this year’s 60th Anniversary edition of the Sydney Film Festival (5-16 June 2013).

This year’s National Film and Sound Archive of Australia National Folk Recording Award has been won by Luke R Davies and the Recycled String Band for their new CD, Not a Note Wasted.

The National Film and Sound Archive of Australia (NFSA) has completed the digital restoration of Naming the Federal Capital of Australia, March 12th 1913, and will make it available online for all Australians to watch as the nation’s capital celebrates its first centenary on 12 March.

The National Film and Sound Archive of Australia (NFSA) will launch a year-long celebration of its Film Australia Collection with the DocWeek Opening Night Screening of the 1962 documentary Festival in Adelaide, on 25 February at the Palace Nova Cinema in Rundle St.

Images of early 20th century Sydney will come to life at the Western Foyer of the Sydney Opera House as part of IMPROVisual, a series of free silent film and live music screenings from 18 February to 2 March.

The National Film and Sound Archive of Australia (NFSA) will celebrate World Radio Day on 13 February with the publication of online profiles of two of Australia’s female radio pioneers, Lynn Foster and Dorothy Crawford.