About the conference

Since 1981, every two years (or so) the Film & History Association of Australian and New Zealand convenes a conference. In accordance with its constitution [PDF] all full conference registrants are automatically members of the Association.

For a detailed history of past conferences you can read Ina Bertrand’s paper, ‘Wot’s in a name?’ and how did we get here from there? (a paper presented to the 12th Film and History Conference, Canberra 2004) [PDF]. Over the years, several collections of Film and History conference papers have been published:

Hutton, Anne (Ed.) (1982): The First Australian History and Film Conference Papers. History and Film Conference/Australian Film and Television School/ National Library, Melbourne.Levy, Wayne;

Cutts, Graeme; Stockbridge, Sally (Eds.) (1984): The Second Australian History and Film Conference Papers. Australian Film and Television School, North Ryde. (This volume contains the first constitution of the Association)

O'Regan, Tom; Shoesmith, Brian (Eds.) (1987): History on/and/in film: selected papers from the Third History and Film Conference, Perth 1985. History and Film Association of Australia (WA), Perth.

Benson, John; Berryman, Ken; Levy, Wayne (Eds.) (1993): Screening the Past: The Sixth Australian History and Film Conference Papers. LaTrobe University, Bundoora 1993

Berryman, Ken (Ed) (1995): Screening the Past: Aspects of Early Australian Film. National Film and Sound Archive, Canberra (selected papers from the Film and History Conference, Melbourne 1993)

Doyle, Jeff; van der Heide, Bill (Eds.) (1986): Cinema, Past and Present. 7th History and Film conference (Canberra, 30 November to 2 December 1995), Media International Australia, no. 80 (May 1996).

Dooley, Marilyn (Ed) (2005): Credits Rolling! Selected papers from the 12th Biennial Conference of the Film & History Association of Australia and New Zealand. National Film and Sound Archive, Canberra 2004.

An innovation of this year’s conference will be the Film & History Association Research Awards. These Awards will be conferred by the Conference Patrons.