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NFSA announces blockbuster exhibition celebrating Australia’s film making success
In an unprecedented world premiere, the National Film and Sound Archive of Australia (NFSA) has unveiled its most ambitious exhibition to date, Australians & Hollywood: A Tale of Craft, Talent, and Ambition.
Exclusive to Canberra and two years in the making, this is the NFSA’s first original show in two decades, and celebrates Australia’s contemporary cinematic, acting, and filmmaking success.
This blockbuster exhibition features never-before publicly seen props, costumes, original documents, and footage from the NFSA collection, as well as exclusive loans from the private collections of some of Australia’s most celebrated actors, cinematographers, and filmmakers.
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“I am not sure if she would be keen,” says the publicist when I ask if ABC TV honcho Sally Riley would take part in this Lunch With.
Riley is a big deal in the world of television and film but she prefers to keep out of the limelight. She’s such a big deal that she now votes for the Oscars, having been inducted into the Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences in 2020 for “her outstanding contribution . and in particular, in recognition of her drive to champion diverse storytelling in Australia, with an impact across the international landscape”. So she’s clearly no slouch.
Samantha Selinger-Morris14:39, Jul 19 2021
Emile Sherman has learned the hard way the price you pay for winning arguments. “I spent my childhood arguing with my sister. I would take opposing views and dance around with a whole range of different viewpoints that I’m not even sure I ever really believed,” says the Oscar-winning producer behind films including
The King’s Speech and
Lion. He enjoyed the thrill of “arguing the other side” and knew how to push her buttons. (He once argued that “elephants love being in zoos”.) “It massively damaged [our relationship], damaged trust, and she felt that I didn’t take her seriously, that I wasn’t there [in conversation] in good faith,” says Sherman about his childhood relationship with his sister, Ondine Sherman, an animal rights activist. Now, he says, they have a good relationship and are “able to take the p out of our own views”.
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Emile Sherman has learned the hard way the price you pay for winning arguments.
“I spent my childhood arguing with my sister. I would take opposing views and dance around with a whole range of different viewpoints that I’m not even sure I ever really believed,” says the Oscar-winning producer behind films including
The King’s Speech and
Lion.
“I’m a lot more comfortable with certain people with more conservative values; I used to find it incredibly confronting,” says film producer Emile Sherman, right, who, with his cousin Dr Lloyd Vogelman, left, has launched a podcast aimed at generating more generous conversations about differing opinions.