Filmnews magazine Index

The is a collection of indexes of Filmnews magazine, an Australian film journal that ran from 1975 to 1995. Filmnews was originally created as a newsletter by the Sydney Filmmakers Co-operative and then later run by other media bodies. It was one of the major Australian film industry publications of its time and was funded by the Australian Film Commission. The types of topics written about in Filmnews concerned all aspects of filmmaking, film exhibition, distribution, appreciation, and the film industry in general. The index (which was created by the AFI Research and Information Library) has over 2800 records which list the different articles within the issues of Filmnews during the years 1975-82 and 1986-1995. The hard copy of the Filmnews magazine is held at the AFIRC and can also be accessed.