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For the second year running the National Film and Sound Archive (NFSA) has joined with the Australian Cinematographers Society (ACS) to celebrate and highlight those Australians who have excelled in screen culture.

Sigrid Thornton to launch two significant NFSA events in Darwin this month, the NT Access Centre and Big Screen.

The National Film and Sound Archive of Australia (NFSA) is pleased to welcome the Film Australia Collection (FAC), which has been transferred from Screen Australia to the management and care of the NFSA effective today, 1 July 2011.

Actress, singer, dancer and director, Tara Morice (Metal Skin, Hotel Sorrento, Candy, Moulin Rouge!) will appear at the National Film and Sound Archive’s third Big Screen Australian Film Festival in Mount Gambier from 5-7 August.

The National Film and Sound Archive of Australia (NFSA) is proud to support the 2011 Melbourne International Film Festival (MIFF) in the presentation of three world premieres of the NFSA’s newly restored Giorgio Mangiamele prints.

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

This Easter and April school holidays it’s TOTALLY COOL fun at the National Film and Sound Archive of Australia. Bring the kids down for some crafty fun based upon the national audiovisual collection, including a penguin egg hunt!

On 5 April at the opening of the National Folk Festival, the National Film and Sound Archive of Australia presented the 12th annual National Folk Recording Award to guitarist, singer and songwriter Jeff Lang for his new CD, Carried in Mind.

On Saturday 5 May, the National Film and Sound Archive’s CEO Michael Loebenstein will present aspiring Canberra cinematographer Jimmy Ennett with the 2012 NFSA-ACS John Leake OAM Award for an Emerging Cinematographer.

A wide range of quality international films will be screened in the National Film and Sound Archive’s Arc cinema during Canberra’s colder months.

From 18 to 20 May the Big Screen film festival gives Nanango and Kingaroy audiences the opportunity to enjoy an array of award-winning and acclaimed Australian films.

Film and television star Martin Sacks will launch the Big Screen film festival on Friday 18 May in Nanango.

The National Film and Sound Archive’s (NFSA) Sounds of Australia will be brought to life on stage in Mandurah, Margaret River, Bunbury and Perth when Cooee Cabaret tours Western Australia for the first time 22–30 May 2012.

Nick Herd drew on the NFSA collection to research his new book, Networking, which places the history of Australian commercial television in its proper context.