Mr. Peter Csordas has been appointed as new director of the National Film Archive of the Slovak Film Institute.

We have received a mail from the Cinemateca Portuguesa announcing the appointment by the Ministry of Culture of Portugal of Ms Maria João Seixas as the new Director of Cinemateca Portuguesa - Museu do Cinema , starting on January 21st, 2010.

The Fall session of the FIAF Executive Committee (EC) took place at the Cinémathèque de Toulouse on November 13-15, 2009. The main decisions taken are listed hereafter.

The Heritage Award of the National Society of Film Critics Awards (USA) was given to the restoration of Akira Kurosawa's RASHOMON (1950) on Sunday 3rd January, 2010. The recipients are the Academy Film Archive, National Film Center (Japan) and the Kadokawa Pictures (Japan).

Ms. Elvira Diamanti was appointed as Director of the Albanian Film Archive on December 30, 2009 by Mr. Ferdinand Xhaferrithe, Minister of Tourism, Culture, Youth and Sports. Ms. Diamanti is the successor of Mr. Artan Minarolli, who is now appointed as Chairman of the National Film Center of Albania.

During it's meeting held in Toulouse on November 13-15, 2009, the FIAF Executive Committee has unanimously decided to present the 2010 FIAF Award to Ms Liv Ullmann. The FIAF Award ceremony will take place at the Oslo Town Hall on May 3rd 2010. Other details will be circulated at a later stage.

The Bundesarchiv-Filmarchiv is looking fo a sound restoration specialist at it‘s business premises Hoppegarten, department FA 4

In Toulouse, the Executive Committee examined the applications received at the FIAF Secretariat. As a result of the discussions, two candidates were unanimously accepted as FIAF Affiliates.

In January 2009, the DOVLAT FILM FOND / STATE FILM FOND, has moved to the new contemporary 5 floor building, built specially for the film archive. The new building consists of 20 film repositories which can contain 300 000 boxes with films.

The 65th FIAF Congress, organized by the Fundación Cinemateca Argentina (FCA) at the Centro Teatral San Martín (CTSM), has been a great success and offered the opportunity for the FIAF Community and its friends to celebrate the creation of the FCA 60 years ago in Buenos Aires.