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Dec 2010

Jedda

Find out how the NFSA restored this groundbreaking Australian film for release on DVD.

Film
Nov 2010

Orphan works

The NFSA sponsors a new user guide on flexible dealing and cultural institutions.

By Fiona Gunn / 30 Nov 2010
Documents
Film
Object
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Posters
Sound
Paul Hogan looks at Linda Kozlowski in a still from the film Crocodile Dundee

75 classic films preserved

The NFSA together with Deluxe Sydney and Kodak (Australasia) have preserved and made available 75 classic Australian films.

Film

Salon Lumière

Film curator Sally Jackson's examination of original documents in Australia and France sheds new light on the man who brought the cinema to Australia in 1896.

By Sally Jackson / 22 Nov 2010
Film

Marius Sestier

The discovery of two films made in Australia by frères Lumière representative Marius Sestier in 1896 includes Australia’s earliest surviving film.

By Sally Jackson / 22 Nov 2010
Film
Oct 2010

Mar del Plata Film Festival

Australia will be the guest country at the 25th Mar del Plata Film Festival.

By Susanne Haydon / 15 Oct 2010
Film
Blue and white film cans sit on a blue mental shelf

Reflections on film preservation

Can you ever truly say a film has 'been preserved'?

By Dominic Case / 1 Oct 2010
Film
Aug 2010

Reflections on Gillian Armstrong

Graham Shirley reflects on Gillian Armstrong’s career ahead of retrospective screenings of two of her films at the NFSA.

By Graham Shirley / 13 Aug 2010
Film

Gillian Armstrong

Director Gillian Armstrong writes about a 2010 screening at the NFSA of a new preservation print of her 1992 film 'The Last Days of Chez Nous'.

By Gillian Armstrong / 9 Aug 2010
Film
Jun 2010

NFSA connects with Aden Young

Director-producer Ian Darling and actor Aden Young discuss 'In the Company of Actors' with school students as part of a NFSA Connects videoconference. Watch videos from the event.

By Imelda Cooney / 21 Jun 2010
Film