Media releases

The 2012 NFSA Orlando Short Film Award has been awarded to Craig Boreham, writer and director of Drowning (2009).

The National Film and Sound Archive of Australia is marking United Nations International Women’s Day with a celebration of women from the Australian audiovisual industry.

The Mildura Big Screen film festival will open on Friday 2 March with a very special event – a collection of long-lost silent films from over 100 years ago, found in a garage in Tasmania!

Autumn Silents, screening from 3-12 March at the NFSA’s Arc Cinema, is a unique opportunity for an original silent cinema experience.

From the ashes – from WWII to bare-foot crocodile hunting, historic Darwin footage on the big screen after decades.

For the first time in Tasmania: Cooee Cabaret – the Sounds of Australia live on stage!

Summer at the National Film and Sound Archive’s Arc cinema brings a whole range of movie pleasures, new and old, indoors in the Arc cinema and outdoors in the NFSA’s courtyard cinema.

Sensational summer fun at the National Film and Sound Archive. Enquiries and bookings – phone 6248 2000

On 28 November in Melbourne Sigrid Thornton will deliver the National Film and Sound Archive of Australia’s (NFSA) ninth Longford Lyell Lecture, offering her insight into the ever-changing Australian film and television industry.

The votes are in, with record-breaking audiences at this year’s Canberra International Film Festival voting for their favourite films.