2016: A-list visitors and big crowds!

A special screening and exhibition of the NFSA's newly restored Australian feature film,

Starstruck (1982), with director Gillian Armstrong. You can read an interview with Ross

O'Donovan (Angus), here, and watch videos from the Gillian Armstrong Q&A here.

Special guests Dennis Smith, Little Pattie and Normie Rowe (pictured with NFSA's Ross

Garret and Rod Butler) joined us for a screening of the only complete and restored

episode of The Go!! Show.

President of the Friends of the NFSA, Ray Edmondson, 'In Conversation' with renowned

Australian actress, Helen Morse, star of many films - including Caddie (1976).

Cathy O'Connor (L), CEO of Nova Entertainment, visited our Sydney office to record

an oral history with Sandra Odorisio.

Les Gock, guitarist from seminal 1970s glam rock band Hush, also recorded

an oral history.

National Youth Science Forum students visited the NFSA to discover the science

behind the work we do.

Deborah Conway and Willy Zygier performed in our Theatrette. The special

show included one song from each of Deborah's albums.

Read an interview with her here.

Film critic and television personality, David Stratton (back right) visited the NFSA.

He is pictured here with the NFSA's Shingo Ishikawa, Sally Jackson and Belinda Hunt.

NFSA CEO Michael Loebenstein hosted Eleven's Scope TV for a special tour,

sharing some of our technical expertise with their young audience.

Animator Cam Ford told us, 'Animated features used to be an event, now there is one every month.

The digital world is astonishing!' He visited for a Q&A to talk about his career, which

includes The Beatles' Yellow Submarine and Australia's first animated feature,

Marco Polo Junior Versus the Red Dragon.

Cam is pictured here with NFSA's Shingo Ishikawa, during a tour of our facilities.

Rebecca Elvy, CEO of our New Zealand counterpart Ngā Taonga Sound & Vision,

toured our preservation facilities. We continued our partnership with new content

on the Anzac: Sights and Sounds of World War One website.

The annual NFSA Eurovision Superfan Party! Dami Im, you're our unofficial winner.

NFSA CEO Michael Loebenstein introduced, Ireland Will Be Free  (1920) with

Irish Ambassador Noel White, at Cathedral Hall, in Melbourne.

We celebrated the 20th anniversary of Shine  with special guests David Helfgott and Geoffrey Rush.

Geoffrey Rush and Hugo Weaving at the Melbourne International Film Festival premiere for the restoration of Proof.

The  NFSA's Gayle Lake (L) with Ray Lawrence, Lynette Curran and Tony Buckley

at the Sydney Film Festival  for the premiere of our restoration of, Bliss  (1985).

Amateur filmmaker, Don Worley, donated the only known footage chronicling the

development of the Australian and International Paralympics movement in the 1970s - 80s.

He is pictured here with Paralympic champion Libby Kosmala.

We hosted the Australian Sound Recordings Association (ASRA) Conference and

appointed retiring staff member Matthew Davies (L) as the NFSA's inaugural Sound Curator Emeritus.

NFSA Ambassador, Margaret Pomeranz, takes a photo of Hugo Weaving and

a member of the public at a special screening of Proof  to raise funds for NFSA Restores.

We celebrated 30 years of Malcolm  with a special anniversary screening featuring

a Q&A with director Nadia Tass and writer-producer David Parker. The original car

from the film, the biggest item in our collection, came out of its box for a special exhibition.

It was TV's 60th birthday. We were joined by special guests,

Gold Logie-award winning actress Lorrae Desmond, and

Sale of the Century announcer Pete Smith who shared their memories of life ‘on the box’,

We launched our new website and our friend, the Kookaburra, came back

with a refreshed, modern look, to be our logo once again.

Digital Directions 2016 brought together scholars, policy-makers, GLAM sector

professionals and creative entrepreneurs to explore the big-picture issues relating to digital cultural collections.

One of our main speakers was Julianne Schultz (pictured).

To mark UNESCO's World Audiovisual Heritage Day, the heads of key cultural institutions

gathered at the NFSA to discuss a National Framework for Digitisation.

We signed a Memorandum of Understanding with AIATSIS. It will see us working on

the Indigenous Remote Archival Fellowship, the National Framework for the

Digitisation of Audiovisual Heritage, and many other projects.

Photo (L-R): NFSA CEO Michael Loebenstein, AIATSIS CEO Russell Taylor AM,

AIATSIS HR Manager Jude Barlow, NFSA Deputy Chair Wayne Denning, AIATSIS Chairperson Professor Mick Dodson AM.

Our digital restoration of the award-winning film, Proof had its Canberra premiere

with special guest, director Jocelyn Moorhouse. The Q&A was moderated by

ABC 666's Laura Tchilinguirian.

Live wax recording at the American Epic event.

American Epic was a full day of Blues, BBQs and live music, supported by the US Embassy.