NFSA blog entries by Jennifer Coombes

Film curators Jennifer Coombes and Jillian Mackenzie introduced the screening of eight short films from the Marvellous Corrick Family at last week’s National Folk Festival. These are their impressions of the night.

As Canberra celebrates its centenary, Film curator Jennifer Coombes highlights the significance of Raymond Longford’s footage of the naming of Canberra.

Film curators Jennifer Coombes and Tenille Hands recently accepted a collection of props and costumes from Fred Schepisi’s The Eye of the Storm (2011). How did they make their selection?

The NFSA and the Orange Historical Society will present a special screening of 1927 footage of the NSW town that captures a very different place to the city of today.