The grand structure of the Melbourne International Film Festival, the Sydney Film Festival and the Australian Film Institute arguably started with a mad enterprise in the Dandenong Ranges. The Chair was Frank Nicholls, who died this week, aged 97. Lisa French and Mark Poole remember their research into his role.
Born in 1916, Frank Nicholls possessed a powerful and restless intellect that embraced science, technology and music as well as a love of film.
