Guest contributor Diane Minnis looks back at news file footage of the seminal lesbian and gay rights protests that followed the first Mardi Gras in Sydney, 1978.

Spotlight on: Catherine Martin
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Feb 2023
The NFSA is sharing rarely seen moving images from the landmark Test Cricket series of summer 1932–33, digitally preserved from our source 35mm nitrate film components.
Jan 2023
Listen to a conversation with Mandy Sayer, author of Those Dashing McDonagh Sisters: Australia’s First Female Filmmaking Team, at the NFSA in December 2022.
Dr John Milner writes about how First Nations filmmakers and stories have evolved the Western genre in Australian cinema.
One of Australia’s greatest and most influential vocalists, Renée Geyer, sadly passed away on 17 January 2023, aged 69.
We're feeling the love this February in Arc Cinema!
Curator Jenny Gall continues her series of articles charting the career of Catherine Martin and her celebrated collaboration with director Baz Luhrmann.
Guest writer Simon Hunt reflects on the short films of Stephen Cummins, which the NFSA has remastered and restored and which premiered as part of the Mardi Gras Film Festival during Sydney WorldPride.
Dec 2022
We're kicking off 2023 in style at Arc Cinema this January!
Can you help us identify these Sydney locations from landmark 1920s films made by the McDonagh sisters?