A 2-day symposium on the intersection of open media, standardization, and audiovisual preservation, co-hosted by the Österreichisches Filmmuseum and MediaArea.net, will take place on 9-10 November 2017 in Vienna.

The Giornate del Cinema Muto has a great new website. The next festival will take place in Pordenone from 30 September-7 October 2017. The programme is now available on their website.

The National Film and Sound Archive (Australia) has just issued a new version of its Collection Policy.

This technical symposium coordinated by Adrian Wood will take place in Fukuoka, Japan, on 23-24 September 2017. Paper submissions welcome.

TC Workshops in Bologna

The ACE announces a new one-day workshop to take place in Bologna on 27 June. Click here for more information on the workshop and how to register.

The full Programme of the 31st Il Cinema Ritrovato Festival in Bologna is now available.

Domitor has communicated the call for paper for its 15th International Conference, to take place in Rochester (NY, USA) from 13-16 June 2018. The theme of the Conference will be "Provenance and Early Cinema".

The 2017 Film Corner International Conference will take place on 9-10 November 2017 at the MIC-Interactive Film Museum and the Cinema Oberdan in Milan (Italy).

Dr. John Kuiper, an eminent figure of the film archive community in the 1970s and 1980s, has died, at the age of 88. He was Vice-President of FIAF from 1971-1977.

FIAF is proud to announce that many of the films presented in the prestigious “Cannes Classics” section of the forthcoming Cannes Film Festival were restored by (or with the support of) FIAF-affiliated film archives.

2017 FIAF AWARD

The FIAF community welcomes two new Associates: Fundación Cinemateca Nacional in Venezuela, and the Olympic Foundation for Culture and Heritage in Switzerland. That brings the number of FIAF affiliates to 164.

On 2 May 2017, the FIAF General Assembly elected a new FIAF Executive Committee. Frédéric Maire succeeds Eric Le Roy as FIAF President.

The Call for presentations is now open. Deadline: 31 May 2017. The Conference will take place in Mexico from 18-21 October 2017.

The preliminary Programme is available on the EYE website (more to be added soon) and Early Bird tickets are still available until the 1 April 2017.

A FIAF EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE STATEMENT

FIAF is organizing a one-day worldwide Audio-Visual Archival Training Summit on 8 March at the Cinémathèque française in Paris, France.

METADATA MANAGEMENT IN FILM ARCHIVES WORKSHOP

2017 FIAF/CF Winter School on Programming - REGISTRATIONS NOW CLOSED

Peter Konlechner (1936-2016)

Michelle Aubert (1942-2016)

The Nordic Film Archives and Cinematheques had their annual meeting in Iceland on 14 and 15 September. Here is a short report of the meeting.

New, improved version of the Manual now available

Head of the FIAF Technical Commission David Walsh has been appointed FIAF Training & Outreach Coordinator for the next 15 months.

Christian Dimitriu's Short Films

Selection of photos of the Bologna FIAF Congress

Ib Monty, FIAF Honorary Member and former director of the Danish Filmmuseum (1960-1997), passed away on 29 July 2016 at the age of 85.

Film Duplication Resolution Tests: Check the Results!

FIAF is invitating applications for the new position of FIAF Training and Outreach Coordinator (16-month freelance contract starting in September 2016, 60 days a year). The closing date for applications is 12 August 2016.

 On 26 June, Belgian filmmakers Jean-Pierre & Luc Dardenne received the 15th FIAF Award at a special ceremony in the Teatro Comunale in Bologna, during the 72nd FIAF Congress.

The FIAF General Assembly on 23-24 June in Bologna was attended by 114 FIAF-affiliated institutions represented by 256 delegates. Three new institutions were admitted as FIAF Associates.

FIAF’s Periodicals Indexing Project (P.I.P.) has now officially started indexing electronic journals. To enable the P.I.P. to cope with the additional workload, we are looking for qualified free-lance indexers to help with the indexing of online film journals.

 The two-day Conference (1-3 June 2016, Dublin), supported by the Coordinating Council for Audiovisual Archive Associations (CCAAA), will highlight the single most important issue facing the audiovisual archive world today: saving the endangered audiovisual archive heritage of the world before it is too late! Early-bird registration closes on 13 May.

It is with great sadness that the Cinémathèque suisse and FIAF announce the death on Sunday morning, at the age of 70, of Christian Dimitriu, former assistant director of the Cinémathèque suisse (1981 to 1992), then Senior Administrator of FIAF (1995 to 2011).

2016 FIAF SUMMER SCHOOL

The new FIAF Directory is out!

It is with great sadness that we inform you of the passing of PK Nair, former director of the National Film Archive of India until his retirement in 1991, and a member of the FIAF Executive Committee in the 1980s.

Call for Proposals (in Spanish only) for a forthcoming workshop on the cataloguing of film materials with RDA and FIAF rules in Mexico City

Check the latest additions to the Historical documents page