National Film and Sound Archive

National Film and Sound Archive of Australia

Established	5 April 1984 (1984-04-05)
Location	McCoy Circuit, Acton, Australian Capital Territory, Australia
Coordinates	35°17′02″S 149°07′16″E / 35.283950°S 149.121075°E / -35.283950; 149.121075
Type	Audiovisual Archive
Collection size	3 million works
CEO	Patrick McIntyre
Chairperson	Caroline Elliot
Owner	Government of Australia
Employees	162 (at June 2019)[1]
Nearest parking	Free parking surrounding the building on Liversedge Street
Website	www.nfsa.gov.au

The National Film and Sound Archive of Australia (NFSA), known as ScreenSound Australia from 1999 to 2004, is Australia's audiovisual archive, responsible for developing, preserving, maintaining, promoting and providing access to a national collection of film, television, sound, radio, video games, new media, and related documents and artefacts. The collection ranges from works created in the late nineteenth century when the recorded sound and film industries were in their infancy, to those made in the present day.

The NFSA collection first started as the National Historical Film and Speaking Record Library (within the then Commonwealth National Library) in 1935, becoming an independent cultural organisation in 1984. On 3 October, Prime Minister Bob Hawke officially opened the NFSA's headquarters in Canberra.