Handling Incoming Materials in Film Archives in the Age of Coronavirus

Cataloguing Practices in the Age of Linked Open Data - A new CDC resource

The 2020 FIAF Film Restoration Summer School is postponed until next year

Share your experience of COVID-19

Tales from the Vaults book project: Call for Contributions now open

Read the new issue of the JFP for free

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New: FIAF Affiliation History Database and Map

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

Take part in the survey! Deadline extended until 22 May

Nikolai Borodachev, the former director general of Gosfilmofond of Russia, died on 11 April 2020 at the age of 71.

UNESCO has just published the Declaration "Turning  the  threat  of  COVID-19  into  an  opportunity  for  greater  support  to documentary heritage", co-signed by the CCAAA.

Film:ReStored_05: Call for Submissions Open until 15 May

Memory Game of Historical FIAF Personalities

Browse Film/AV Collections of FIAF Affiliates Online

2020 FIAF Congress Cancellation Statement

The SEAPAVAA Executive Council and the Vietnam Film Institute have jointly announced the cancellation of the 24th SEAPAVAA Conference and General Assembly, due to take place from 8-12 June 2020 in Da Nang, Vietnam.

New Announcement from FIAF and Filmoteca UNAM about the 2020 FIAF Congress

It is with great sadness that we have learned the passing of former P.I.P. Editor Michael Moulds at the age of 90.

On 22 February 2020, FIAF published an official statement in support of the Cinemateca Brasileira. Read it here.

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Colleagues, family and friends will come together to commemorate the passing of MoMA’s retired Curator of Film Eileen Bowser at MoMA  in New York City on 27 April 2020.

Digital Archives Summer School in Potsdam: Postponed until 2021

The Call for papers for the joint 2020 FIAT-IFTA/IASA Conference, to take place in Dublin from 26-29 October 2020, is now available. Deadline 16 March.

New deadline for Symposium submissions extended to 13 January 2020!

Former Assistant Chief, Motion Picture, Broadcasting and Recorded Sound Division at the Library of Congress, and a highly respected figure of the film archiving community, our colleague Paul Spehr passed away last Friday after a short illness.

Registrations are now closed.

2020 Christian Dimitriu Fund

Deadline for applications 14 February 2020

“Archive Title: Unidentified” - Screening and Identifying Unidentified Material from the Bundesarchiv's Collection

The topic of the Congress will be 'EMPOWERING KNOWLEDGE SOCIETIES'. The Call for Papers and Presentations is now available.

The fifth Conference on 'Colour on Film', to take place at BFI Southbank in London from 11-13 March 2020, has been announced.

Vladimir “Vlada” Petrić, an eminent film studies scholar, a retired Harvard University professor, and the co-founder of the Harvard Film Archive, died in Belgrade on 13 November 2019.

A new FIAF-funded Francophone workshop for the FIAF, FCAFF, and INEDITS networks will take place in Caen (France) on 21 November 2019.

Programming and Access to Collections Commission: new online resources

Presentations of the 2019 Lausanne Symposium

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The 2019 FIAT/IFTA World Conference – titled ‘Champions of Value and Trust. AV Archives in the all-media world‘ will take place in Dubrovnik, Croatia, from 22-25 October. The Call for Papers is open until 11 April.

Applications now closed

Up to five travel grants will be awarded for the upcoming Joint Technical Symposium in Hilversum (3-5 October 2019). Check details on how to apply here.

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Video of the FIAF Technical Commission Workshop in Paris (13 March 2019)

3-5 October 2019, Hilversum, Netherlands

Registrations open

In March this year, the German Institute for Standardization (DIN) published its DIN SPEC 15587 'Guidelines for digitization of cinematographic film', which defines minimum requirements for sustainable digitisation of analogue film.

The BRICS Audiovisual Preservation Meeting will take place in Niterói, Brazil, from 30 September to 3 October 2019. It will feature panels comprising researchers, moving image archivists, and representatives from film archives around the world.

Home Movie Day, an annual celebration many FIAF affiliates participate in each year, is planning a special event to coincide with this year’s World Day of Audiovisual Heritage on 27 October 2019: the “Home Movie Day and Night: The 24-Hour Home Movie Marathon”. Check here how you can take part.

Freddy Buache (1924-2019)

List of selected participants

A new FIAF Executive Committee