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A mix of white and First Nations people dressed in 1950s clothes dancing together.
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Article

NFSA Restores: The Coolbaroo Club

18 August 2023
VIEW
Artist Richard Bell seated in his studio in front of one of his works: a coloured Indigenous map of Australia with the words PAYE THE RENT across it
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Deep Dive: You Can Go Now

Watch a filmed conversation with First Nations artist Richard Bell at the NFSA.
24 August 2023
A fire ant seen at close quarters on a branch
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Science and Innovation

Science Week stories about spray-on skin, conservation, biosecurity, drones and more.
14 August 2023
Three white children, two boys and a girl, laughing and smiling together on a boat at sea. The youngest boy and girl are wearing colourful jumpers while the older boy wears a denim jacket.
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1990s TV shows for tweens

Remember the boom in Australian science-fiction and fantasy TV for kids in the 1990s?
Wendy Hanna  / 
9 August 2023

Category

  • Film
  • Television

Subject

  • preservation
  • Australian film
  • archives
  • awards
  • SEAPAVAA
  • film festivals
  • First Nations Australians
  • Australian filmmakers
  • film critics
  • film preservation
  • obituaries
  • Antarctica
  • Australian actors
  • Australian Cinematographers Society
  • cinematographers
  • country towns
  • digital technology
  • NFSA Connects
  • preservation training
  • (-) film

Date

  • (-) 2011

Dec 2011

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Victorian College of the Arts

For nearly a decade, the NFSA has demonstrated its commitment to supporting Australia’s next generation of filmmaking talent by its ongoing sponsorship of the VCA School of Film and Television Graduate Screening Awards night.

BY
 Simon Smith
15 December 2011
Film

Nov 2011

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Ten Canoes

The everyday lives of a group of Sydney private school girls, a renowned film director and an Indigenous actress couldn't be any more different, yet they all found some common ground through the NFSA Connects program.

BY
 Imelda Cooney
21 November 2011
Film

Nov 2011

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Vale Sarah Watt

The NFSA joins the Australian film industry in mourning the loss of artist, writer and filmmaker Sarah Watt to cancer.

BY
 Joanna Fleming
9 November 2011
Film

Oct 2011

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Happy 100th, Mr Hinde!

Much-loved Australian film critic John Hinde would have turned 100 today. NFSA Library manager Jan Thurling celebrates the radio and TV personality on his anniversary.

BY
 Jan Thurling
26 October 2011
Film
Television

Aug 2011

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Keep your analogue copies

NFSA Development Manager Executive Dominic Case looks back at the days when computers first infiltrated the film industry, and wonders what the digital present - and future - holds for film archives.

BY
 Dominic Case
8 August 2011
Film

Jun 2011

Prince Alfred Park, Sydney. Circa 1896
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Skating in the park

The Marius Sestier film previously believed to have been shot in a Melbourne park has now been identified as being shot in Sydney's Prince Alfred Park.

BY
 Sally Jackson
15 June 2011
Film

Apr 2011

Flinders Street Station circa 1910
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Australian Mediatheque

Latest additions to the Australian Mediatheque in Melbourne's Federation Square include early AFL footage and films of the Murray River Region.

BY
 Zsuzsi Szucs
7 April 2011
Film

Mar 2011

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Judging short film festivals

When most people think of Clare Valley, their minds immediately turn to wine. But amidst the undulating rows of grapevines is one of Australia’s most exciting new short film festivals.

BY
 Fiona Gunn
23 March 2011
Film

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