The National Film and Sound Archive of Australia (NFSA) has launched Take Three, an initiative to support Australian tertiary students and emerging filmmakers/artists by providing up to three minutes of footage/audio, and ten stills, free of licence fees for use in their projects.
“We can’t wait to see what Australia’s creative minds will be able to do with Take Three! We hope that tertiary students, emerging filmmakers and artists will be inspired by the NFSA collection; that they’ll use all their creativity to give a new life to our archival content through their own work.” NFSA CEO Michael Loebenstein “One of the key principles in our Strategic Plan 2015-2018 is that the NFSA is ‘the creators’ archive’, encouraging the public to re-use the materials we collect, preserve and share. Here are 180 seconds, 180 opportunities to be creative,” added Loebenstein.
Mr. Loebenstein explained that applicants must be Australian citizens: a) enrolled at an Australian tertiary education institution; or b) emerging filmmakers/artists with no more than two short film or webisode credits, and no other government/private funding sources. Loebenstein went on to point out that eligible creatives will be able to use the footage/audio and stills in any artistic work, including film and documentaries; live productions such as dance, cabaret, theatre and opera; visual arts and public art works; music and sound productions; research; and lectures and presentations.

For more details about the eligibility criteria, visit the NFSA website