Foxtel executive Peter Rose and marketing consultant Toni Cody have been appointed to the board of the National Film and Sound Archive.
The National Film and Sound Archive will hold further talks with industry groups and individuals as it hammers out a strategic plan that addresses the urgent need to raise more funds to continue to digitise its screen collection.
The National Film and Sound Archive of Australia (NFSA) has launched its first online exhibition, Priscilla: 20 Years Young, to celebrate the 20th anniversary of the Australian road movie The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert.
The organiser of a petition which called on the National Film and Sound Archive to be more transparent in its restructure has welcomed the Archive’s “feedback†sessions in capital cities next month.
Responding to a petition calling for more transparency in the controversial restructure at the National Film and Sound Archive, the NFSA will hold workshops in Sydney, Melbourne, Canberra, Perth and Brisbane.
The instigator of a petition calling on the National Film and Sound Archive to be more transparent in the restructure of the Archive and the resulting job losses is disappointed with the response from NFSA chair Gabrielle Trainor.
Australia is already the most parochial film environment in the developed world. No surprise there. Look at the horror stories that litter the national cinema time line.
The National Film and Sound Archive has responded to a petition which calls for more transparency in the Archive's pending restructure and expresses concern at the extent of job losses.