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Facing the Music: excerpt
Title:
Facing the Music: excerpt
NFSA ID
488105
Year
2001
This excerpt is from Facing the Music (Bob Connolly and Robin Anderson, 2001).
Inside the halls of Sydney University’s Music Department, talented young students create sublime music in a setting that’s far from serene.
After nearly a decade of relentless government funding cuts, Professor Anne Boyd is struggling to preserve basic standards. But the qualities that are her strengths as a composer and teacher – her passion and dedication – leave Boyd vulnerable when it comes to harsh economic realities.
Forced to lose staff, cut courses and plead for private sponsorship, the usually conservative Boyd must fight for what she believes in. But how long can she continue?
Directed by the acclaimed documentary team of Bob Connolly and Robin Anderson (Rats in the Ranks).
The National Film and Sound Archive of Australia acknowledges Australia’s Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples as the Traditional Custodians of the land on which we work and live and gives respect to their Elders both past and present.