In a series of sessions called Fast Forward Predictions at AIDC, Sandy George asked a variety of industry figures to envisage their world in five years time. Louise Pascale tracked the hopes and ambiguities, starting with Gayle Lake & Jennifer Coombs and the National Film & Sound Archive.
For any filmmaker who has received Screen Australia funding the National Film and Sound archive can just be another list of deliverables in your PIA. Yet their role in the Australian filmmaking landscape is crucial. They are our depository of films that document our lives.