Press release from National Film and Sound Archive
Esteemed Australian film and television producer, David Hannay, will be presented with the 2011 NFSA Ken G. Hall Award for Film Preservation in Canberra today.
The Ken G. Hall Award acknowledges individuals, groups of individuals or corporations for their outstanding contribution to the cause of moving image preservation. Examples of this contribution include technical innovation, scholarship in the field, involvement with the survival of film as an art form and a cultural experience, advocacy, sponsorship and fundraising.
In a special presentation, David will be presented with the Ken G. Hall Award in the Arc cinema at the NFSA at 5.30pm.
David will then introduce a free screening of 'Death of a Soldier' (Phillipe Mora, Australia, 1986) starring James Coburn and Bill Hunter, a film he produced in 1986.
NFSA’s new Chief Executive Officer, Michael Loebenstein, said today: ”We are extremely proud to present this year’s Ken G. Hall Award to David Hannay. He is a highly respected film and television producer, well known for classic Australian films such as 'Stone' (1974), 'The Man from Hong Kong' (1975) and 'Gross Misconduct' (1993). He has also been actively involved over many years in the preservation of film and television. As the National Archive that preserves Australia’s audiovisual history, we are extremely grateful to David for his very valuable work in this area.”
The NFSA established the film preservation award in 1995 in commemoration of filmmaker Ken G Hall’s advocacy of cinema and its preservation throughout his long career in film and television production. Previous recipients of the Ken G. Hall Award include filmmaker Ian Dunlop, directors Paul Cox, Phillip Noyce and Peter Weir, producers Anthony Buckley, Joan Long and Patricia Lovell, film preservation expert Tom Nurse of Kodak Australasia, and film historian Judy Adamson.