Facing the Music is an Australian film directed by Bob Connolly and Robin Anderson about the wish by some staff members to keep the University of Sydney

University of Sydney

The University of Sydney is a public university located in Sydney, New South Wales. The main campus spreads across the suburbs of Camperdown and Darlington on the southwestern outskirts of the Sydney CBD. Founded in 1850, it is the oldest university in Australia and Oceania...

 Department of Music alive in the face of budget overspending.

The film features the composer Professor Anne Boyd

Anne Boyd

Anne Elizabeth Boyd AM is an Australian composer and Professor of Music at the University of Sydney.-Early life:Anne Boyd was born in Sydney to James Boyd and Annie Freda Deason Boyd ....

 and head of the department in her struggle to run a dysfunctional department despite budget pressure. She has no training or capacity for the fund-raising that is apparently called for. The film won the Cinematic Intelligence Agency Trenchcoat Awards 2002 for best documentary or true drama, Film Critics Circle of Australia

Film Critics Circle of Australia

The Film Critics Circle of Australia is a group of cinema critics that judge Australian films.-External links:**...

 2002 for Best Australian documentary, and the if Awards 2001 for Best Documentary.

At the end of 2004, the Music Department was merged with the Sydney Conservatorium of Music

Sydney Conservatorium of Music

The Sydney Conservatorium of Music is one of the oldest and most prestigious music schools in Australia...

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External links

• Facing The Music at the National Film and Sound Archive