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The Art of Festival Posters

The Art of Festival Posters

The Art of Festival Posters

Designed to attract an audience and to project an identity, festival posters are an essential tool in the marketing and branding of festivals. 

The NFSA's poster collection captures the variety and vitality of film and music festivals in Australia’s capital cities and regional centres.

Poster for the 2010 Dungog film festival featuring an illustration of a cow jumping over the moon.
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Dungog Film Festival poster, 2010
NFSA-ID:
NFSA ID
818027
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Year

Poster for the fourth Dungog Film Festival, presented by NSW Mining and held from 27-30 May, 2010. The Festival claims to be the "biggest festival of Australian films on the planet".

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Poster for the Tropfest short film festival in February 2000 showing a cartoon ant holding a movie camera on an orange background.
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Tropfest 2000 poster
NFSA-ID:
NFSA ID
440933
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Year

Glossy red poster advertising Tropfest 2000 with a space at the bottom for location details.

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Poster for the 2004 Melbourne Queer Film Poster showing a blank background with a large bright red heart shape in the centre. Tagline reads 'Within every community beats a queer heart'.
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Melbourne Queer Film Festival poster, 2004
NFSA-ID:
NFSA ID
600206
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Year

Poster for the Melbourne Queer Film Festival held in March 2004.

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Poster for the Sydney Underground Film Festival, 2007. Showing an illustration of a hand holding someone's eye wide open.
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Sydney Underground Film Festival poster, 2007
NFSA-ID:
NFSA ID
746777
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Year

Poster for the Sydney Underground Film Festival, held on 7-10 September, 2007. The Festival featured 85 films as well as live bands over four nights.

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Poster for 2009 Womadelaide music festival showing an illustration of a Lion against a pink background
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WOMADelaide Sounds of the Planet, 2009 poster
NFSA-ID:
NFSA ID
796065
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Year

Festival poster for WOMADelaide Sounds of the Planet, held 6-8 March, 2009 in Adelaide.

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Poster for the World of Women (WOW) international film festival. Poster art shows the outline of a young woman's smiling face.
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World of Women (WOW) International Film Festival poster, 2003
NFSA-ID:
NFSA ID
576707
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Year

Poster for the World of Women (WOW) International Film Festival help in October 2002 and national tour that ran from November 2002 to March 2003.

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Poster for the Portable Film Festival from 2008. The poster features illustrations of flowers, ferns and feathers and hands reaching up and outwards from the centre of the poster.
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Portable Film Festival poster, 2008
NFSA-ID:
NFSA ID
773762
Year:
Year

Poster for the Portable Film Festival, 2008.

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Poster for Sydney Super 8 Film Festival showing a black and white cartoon drawing of the Sydney Harbour Bridge blown in half. A figure in the foreground has a beech bubble above it saying 'now I've seen it all'.
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Seventh Sydney Super 8 Film Festival poster, 1986
NFSA-ID:
NFSA ID
458932
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Year

Poster for Seventh Sydney Super 8 Film Festival, held in November 1998 in Sydney and Melbourne. The Festival featured films from Australia, West Germany and Japan. The poster shows a black and white cartoon drawing of the Sydney Harbour Bridge blown in half. A figure in the foreground has a beech bubble above it saying 'Now I've seen it all'.

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Sights and Sounds music festival poster, 1969
NFSA-ID:
NFSA ID
359024
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Year

Poster for the Sights & Sounds of 69 Music Festival, held at the Sydney Town Hall in May 1969. Val Hogdson was the poster artist.

This was the first rock music concert held at the Sydney Town Hall. It was produced by Kevin Kearney and co-directed by Gordon Mutch and Val Hogdson with MC Jack Thompson.

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Poster for the 6th annual WA Jazz Festival in 1988 showing a black and white illustration of a Town Hall building against a red background.
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WA Jazz Festival poster, 1988
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NFSA ID
411779
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Year

Poster for the WA Jazz Festival held in September 1988.

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Brisbane Film Festival pages from programme featuring cover page with a figure of a man with the head of a bird, he is holding a small bird in his hand. Page 2 shows pictures and synopses of some of the films showing in the festival.
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Fourth Brisbane Film Festival poster, 1969
NFSA-ID:
NFSA ID
515489
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Year

Poster for the Fourth Brisbane Film Festival, held in May 1969 at the Astor Theatre.

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Poster for the 23rd National Folk Festival in Maleny, Queensland, 1989.
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National Folk Festival Poster, 1989
NFSA-ID:
NFSA ID
462585
Year:
Year

Poster for the 23rd National Folk Festival in Maleny, Queensland, held during the Easter weekend of 1989. The Festival was presented by The Australian Folk Trust and the Queensland Folk Federation. Over 300 performers appeared at the Festival, including Kev Carmody and Eric Bogle.

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