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Main Decisions Taken during the 65th FIAF Congress
held in Buenos Aires on 22-30 May 2009

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.

More than 200 participants have followed the program organized together with our FCA Partners and the FIAF Commissions, and have participated in numerous cultural and social events, as well as in the current association business, such as the Executive Committee meetings, the symposium on the subject “The Cinematheques in Search of their New Audiences”, the workshops of the specialized commissions, the Second Century Forum –on the subject “The Film Heritage as Cultural patrimony? Not Yet”-, the Open Forum, the General Assembly and a wonderful day of excursion to the Tigre, as well as a visit of the Cinecolor Film Laboratories.

Further details of the Congress will be published in the FIAF 2009 CONGRESS–BUENOS AIRES report.

This year, being an election year, has been a very active one. Many changes have taken place, and in particular, some important changes have taken place. The main decisions taken by the Executive Committee and the General Assembly are listed hereafter.

IN MEMORIAM

In her President’s Report, Eva Orbanz paid a tribute to the Colleagues that have passed away during the last year. The General Assembly observed a minute of silence in memory of 4 distinguished and beloved colleagues:

Harold Brown, FIAF Honorary Member, Aylesbury, UK

João Bénard da Costa, Director of the Cinemateca Portuguesa, Lisbone

Anita Falk, Film Curator at Svenska Film Institutet, Stockholm

Mato Kukuljica, Curator at the Croatian Cinematheque, Zagreb

An article on Harold Brown has been published in the Journal of Film Preservation. Further articles will be published in the next JFP issues.

AFFILIATION

The General Assembly in Buenos Aires was informed about the decisions taken by the executive Committee last year, in Pordenone, who examined and unanimously approved the affiliation application of 3 organizations as FIAF ASSOCIATES:

- Beyrouth (Beirut):

CINEMATHEQUE NATIONALE DU LIBAN
Beyrouth, Liban
Starco Center 9th Floor
Contact person: Mr. Hares Bassil
>bharess1@yahoo.com

- Paris:

FONDATION JEROME SEYDOUX-PATHE
Paris, France
Contact person: Mme Sophie Seydoux
>sseydoux@fondation-jeromeseydoux-pathe.com

- Thessaloniki :

MUSEE DU CINEMA DE THESSALONIQUE
Thessalonique, Grèce
Contact person : Mr. Vasileios Kechagias
>cinemuse@otenet.gr

In Buenos Aires, the General Assembly has been informed about the unanimous approval by the Executive Committee, this year, of the requests for affiliation of the following Archives, as ASSOCIATES:

- Firenze:

MEDIATECA REGIONALE TOSCANA
Firenze, Italia
Contact person: Stefania Ippoliti, Director of the Mediateca Regionale
>info@mediatecatoscana.it

- Paris:

INSTITUT NATIONAL DU SPORT ET DE L’ÉDUCATION PHYSIQUE
Paris, France
Contact persons: Thierry Maudet and Julien Faraut
>julien.faraut@insep.fr

- Tbilisi:

FILM HERITAGE PROTECTION AND ARCHIVE DEPARTMENT / GEORGIAN NATIONAL FILM CENTER
Tbilisi, Georgia
Contact person: Mr Lasha Bakradze
>office@filmcenter.ge

- Washington, DC:

The NATIONAL GALLERY OF ART
Washington, United States of America
Contact person: Ms. Margaret Parsons, Head of the Film Department
>p-parsons@nga.gov

Furthermore, 2 Archives have applied for Change of status and were accepted as FIAF MEMBERS by the Executive Committee. This decision was ratified by the General Assembly:

-München:

The FILMMUSEUM IM MÜNCHNER STADTMUSEUM in München, GERMANY, who has applied for change of status (from Associate to Member), has been appointed by the Executive Committee as MEMBER of the Federation.
Director: Stefan Droessler
>stefan.droessler@muenchen.de

- Santiago de Chile:

The CINETECA NACIONAL DE CHILE in Santiago de Chile, CHILE, who has applied for change of status (from Associate to Member), has been appointed by the Executive Committee as MEMBER of the Federation.
Director: Ignacio Aliaga Riquelme
>ignacio.aliaga@cinetecanacional.cl

The EC also examined the situation of the NATIONAL FILM INSTITUTE in Oslo, Norway, and confirmed its current status of FIAF MEMBER. Contact person: Lise Gustavson
lise.gustavson@nfi.no

The total number of Affiliates is now 149 (84 Members; 65 Associates; from 77 countries)

SPECIALIZED COMMISSIONS

The outgoing Executive Committee examined and thankfully approved the Activities reports presented by the Heads of the 3 FIAF specialised commissions.

- Nancy Goldman and the Cataloguing and Documentation Commission (CDC)

- Antti Alanen and the Programming and Access to Collections Commission (PACC)

- Thomas Christensen and the Technical Commission (TC)

The Heads of the Commissions were reconfirmed for a 2-years period.

FIAF PROJECTS AND PUBLICATIONS

FIAF Award The 2009 FIAF Award will be presented to Rithy Panh at a later moment this year. The Affiliates are invited to nominate their candidates for the 2010 FIAF Award. The decision about the 2010 Award will be taken at the fall EC Meeting session (on 13-15 November 2009).

FIAF Manifesto Further to the publication of the FIAF Manifesto in the Journal of Film Preservation and the FIAF Website, a poster has been produced and circulated to the Affiliates and the General Assembly. The Affiliates are invited to circulate the poster as widely as possible.

Details on other current projects and publications will be described in the Buenos Aires Congress Report at a later stage.

EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE

The GA approved the activities of the outgoing Executive Committee (2007-2009), which included the following EC Officers and Members:

Eva Orbanz (President), Meg Labrum (Secretary General), Patrick Loughney (Treasurer), Hisashi Okajima (Vice President), Eric Le Roy (Vice President), Vladimir Opela (Vice President), Lise Gustavson (Deputy Secretary General), Jan-Erik Billinger (Deputy Treasurer), Luca Giuliani, Carlos Magalhães, Iván Trujillo Bolio, as well as Vittorio Boarini and Sylvia Frank as representatives of the Associates.

The new elected Executive Committee (2009 – 2011) was elected by the General Assembly on 30th May 2009. It includes the following EC Officers and Members of the EC:

Hisashi Okajima (President ), Meg Labrum, (Secretary General), Patrick Loughney, (Treasurer). The 3 Officers were voted as single and unopposed candidates at a large majority.

Eric Le Roy (Vice-President), Luca Giuliani (Vice-President), Vladimir Opela (Vice-President), Lise Gustavson (Deputy Secretary General), Anna Fiaccarini (Deputy Treasurer), Guadalupe Ferrer, Olga Futemma, Michael Loebenstein.

Vittorio Boarini and Sylvia Frank were voted into the EC as representatives of the Associates.
The Vice-Presidents, Deputy Secretary General and Deputy Treasurer were chosen at the second EC Meeting, on 30 May 2009.

NEW HONORARY MEMBER

At the first EC meeting, a member of the EC presented a motion to nominate Ms. Eva Orbanz as FIAF Honorary Member. Several EC members backed the motion. Ms. Eva Orbanz was unanimously elected Honorary Member by the EC. This decision was submitted to the General Assembly and ratified by a large majority.

FUTURE FIAF CONGRESSES

Further information has been provided to the General Assembly by the Organizing Institutions of future FIAF Congresses until 2013.

2010: The National Library in OSLO, NORWAY, has circulated Newsletter 1 including the New Logo, as well as information about the Joint Technical Symposium - JTS (Title of the JTS: “Cultural Heritage – Digital Opportunities & Challenges”).
Further details will be circulated at a later stage.
The Executive Committee will meet on 29 April – 1st May; the regular FIAF Congress will take place from 2 - 9 May 2010.

2011: South African National Film, Video and Sound Archives, in PRETORIA, SOUTH AFRICA
Eva Orbanz and Melisia Shinners have completed information about the organization of the Congress.

2012: China Film Archive, in BEIJING, CHINA.
Fu Hongxing and Eric Le Roy have completed informations about the organization of the Congress.

2013: Filmoteca de Catalunya, in BARCELONA, SPAIN.
Roc Villas has completed information about the organization of the Congress.

Other details will be provided in the Buenos Aires Congress report.

FINANCES

The General Assembly has unanimously approved the FIAF – P.I.P. Financial Reports (2008 FIAF-P.I.P. Accounts and 2010 FIAF-P.I.P. Budget) that were discussed by the Executive Committee and submitted by the Senior Administrator to the GA on behalf of the Treasurer and the Deputy Treasurer.