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The Film Archive

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The New Zealand Film Archive has three key missions: to collect,
protect and project New Zealand's moving image heritage.

Having just celebrated its 30th year of a unflinching commitment to New Zealand’s film and television history, the New Zealand Film Archive is an independent charitable organisation.

Housed within the Film Archive are more than 120,000 films, videos and television programme from 1895 to the present day. Every genre of film making – feature films, documentaries, short films, home movies, newsreels, TV programmes and advertisements – can be found at the Film Archive, meaning it’s a great source of information of New Zealand’s cultural past and present, as well (of course) as a great source of entertainment.

But the Film Archive is more than just film. There is also a significant documentation collection which includes publicity materials, stills, posters, production records, props, costumes and equipment housed in Wellington.

The Film Archive draws on its rich repository from the collections for regular screenings and events in its purpose-built cinema and gallery in Wellington, with screenings also held regularly around New Zealand as part of the community access and Te Hokinga Mai programmes.

The Archive has research libraries in Wellington and Auckland available at no cost to the public, with staff on hand to assist.

And from Wellington, the Film Archive is meeting the interests of New Zealanders from all corners of the country through its Medianet initiative, which is a network of digital access sites in art galleries and museums across New Zealand with more signing up each year.

Big Idea

Archives concentrate on storing items for posterity. Museums store items for presentation. Laboratories work on items for preservation.

At the Film Archive we do all of those things, juggling the sometimes-conflicting nature of public access, presentation and preservation. Having a model that is encouraging to the public to find their own material within the whole archive is at the heart of what makes the Film Archive unique.

Our purpose-built cinema presents a unique programme of films that you’ll be hard-pressed to find anywhere else in New Zealand, using films of many different formats through to modern digital copies. From Once Were Warriors, to Out of the Blue, to Goodbye Pork Pie and all points in between, the Film Archive is a dream for fans of kiwiana culture here in Wellington.

We also screen special historical presentations of films depicting the growth of New Zealand. Whether it’s a yearning to know more about where we came from as a nation or a city, or simply just for kicks to see how someone’s street used to look at the turn of the century, the Film Archive provides a cultural experience unlike any other in New Zealand.

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Organisation Website URL: http://www.filmarchive.org.nz
Facebook URL: http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=21251070695

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