Susanne Chauvel Carlsson is the 2012 recipient of the NFSA Ken G Hall Award for Film Preservation.

Sue Carlsson is the daughter of Charles and Elsa Chauvel. The NFSA has selected Carlsson for her active engagement with the NFSA in researching and preserving the Chauvel film legacy.

Born in 1930, Carlsson lived with her parents for nearly 30 years and witnessed the making of all their major films. She is pictured (left) with her parents in 1956, the year after Charles Chauvel directed the landmark colour feature Jedda.

'I feel honoured to receive the Ken G Hall Film Preservation Award … My parents’ story proves what can be achieved by sheer perseverance and tenacity, and their dedication to the integrity of their work … [Their] films are still a testimony to a desire to put Australia on the world map in filmmaking.’

Sue Carlsson is the author of Charles and Elsa Chauvel: Movie Pioneers (1989) and is currently writing The Life and Cinema of Charles Chauvel. Her Chauvel cinema website explores the locations where Chauvel’s films were made.

The award will be presented in Sydney on 27 November. Read more about Sue Carlsson and the Ken G Hall Award for Film Preservation at the NFSA website.

Read Paul Byrnes’s portrait of Charles Chauvel on ASO.