Calendar of Forthcoming Training Events
This calendar lists all known forthcoming training events in the audiovisual archiving field, all around the world. The information it contains is taken from the CCAAA website. Should you want to add a training event to the calendar, please visit this page.
What is FRAME Mentoring?
The FRAME Mentoring programme is designed and organised by INA with the support of EBU Academy, FIAT/IFTA and the FRAME Committee composed of European experts. For 6 months, you will be assisted by a mentor, a recognised European and international professional of the audiovisual archive sector. The objective: to help you develop your professional project and your career.
The mentoring programme includes:
- Monthly online exchanges with your mentor and other relevant experts, from June to December 2023
- Professional immersion for two weeks at INA or in your mentor’s organisation, during the autumn 2023
- Accreditation to the next FIAT/IFTA World Conference, which will be organised in Locarno (Switzerland) on 17-20 October 2023
All expenses (flights, hotels, lunches) are 100% covered by the programme scholarship.
For whom?
FRAME Mentoring is aimed at all junior professionals in the audiovisual heritage field with less than 5 years of experience (in the same or in a similar position), regardless of their age, nationality, position, or field of activity. The programme is primarily addressed to professionals involved in a project ongoing or to be launched soon. The mentee’s project could deal with (non-exhaustive list):
- Design and implementation of an archiving workflow
Collect of audiovisual archives
Preservation of audiovisual archives physical carriers
Digitisation
Audiovisual and film restauration
Digital archive management
Digital archive long term preservation
Management, notably of an audiovisual archives department
Documentation
Implementation of a database and definition of data models
Rights management
Research and scientific access and projects using audiovisual archives
Educative access and projects using AV archives
General audience access project using AV archives
Production of audiovisual contents based on archives (film, documentary, digital and innovative contents)
Post-disaster handling of collections
How to apply?
If you meet these criteria, you can submit your application and join the FRAME community! To apply, complete the application form before March 15th. After this date, a jury will examine all applications received and select the two mentees. All applicants will be notified of the selection or not of their application.
To apply > https://www.ina.fr/actualites-ina/frame-mentoring-2023-the-call-for-applications-is-open
The structure of the Film Preservation Studies master’s degree course approaches cinema through its material nature and technological genealogy. The first two modules explore the photochemical origin of film images, and the subsequent ones focus on the peculiarities of the magnetic and digital formats. These branches together form a common set of specific knowledge: each image and each sound poses unique questions about its identification, degradation, preservation and cataloguing, but also about aesthetic and ethical issues, about the future of cinema, its sense of history and the profession of the archivist.
The content systematisation and working methods proposed by the course do not, however, lead to a simple and/or simplified understanding of the material under study. Quite the opposite, in fact; at the end of their journey, students are invited to explore the ‘grand memory of images’ from a complex and paradoxical perspective. And this is just as it should be, because even when the path to follow is perfectly defined, the journey of an archivist always leads eventually to the labyrinth of images of our era. The greatest treasure we could ever inherit.
In March 2024, FIAF will join forces with the Cinémathèque française and the Fondation Jérôme Seydoux-Pathé once again to offer a short training course (in English and French) aimed at professionals in FIAF archives and beyond. The general theme of this specialized course is still "Programming Film Heritage", and will once again be taught by programming experts from the global network of FIAF archives and other distinguished professionals in a relevant field. This 9th edition of the Winter School will take place on-site only, at the Fondation Jérôme Seydoux-Pathé and at the Cinémathèque, on 11 & 12 March 2024, just before the "Toute la mémoire du monde" festival at the Cinémathèque française (13-17 March 2024).
The organizers are currently working on the programme of this 9th edition. It will be published in early 2024. Registrations will be open in mid-January 2024. Check the FIAF website!
