Chicca Bergonzi (Cinémathèque Suisse), Oliver Hanley (Filmuniversität Babelsberg – and formerly a PACC Corresponding Member), and Matěj Strnad (Národní filmový archiv) have been appointed members of the Programming and Access to Collections Commission.

The IFI Irish Film Archive have made it to the finalists of the DPC’s Digital Preservation Awards, in the category Safeguarding the Digital Legacy.

Josetxo Cerdán Los Arcos is the new Director of the Filmoteca Española. He will start work in September.

The second Budapest Classics Film Marathon, hosted by the Hungarian National Film Archive, will take place from 4-9 September.

Deux nouveaux ateliers pour archivistes francophones

The 4th FIAF/Cinémathèque française Winter School on Programming Film Heritage will take place on 11-12 March 2019. More details to follow soon.

Applications now open!

The Digital Statement

Part I

FIAF has three new Honorary Members!

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.

Vacancy at the FIAF Secretariat

The Madrid Project

A new online database of documents related to the manufacture and processing of film

2018 FIAF Film Restoration Summer School in Bologna

Admission is free but places are limited. Register by 11 May 2018

New deadline for the Call for Papers: 15 December 2017.

2018 Programming Winter School

Registration is now closed.

The Austrian experimental filmmaker was presented with the medal during a lecture he gave at the Austrian Film Museum in Vienna on 16 January 2018.

Rachael Stoeltje, FIAF's representative on the CCAAA's Board, has taken over as Chair of the CCAAA for the next two years.

A new FIAF logo has been introduced to celebrate our Federation's 80th anniversary. You can download it here.

2018 Christian Dimitriu Fund

How to apply?

The new deadline for the submission of papers for the 2018 Conference is 15 December.

Online registration is open for the Fi:Re conference, which will take place at the Acadeny of Fine Arts in Warsaw on 9-10 November 2017. Speakers include representatives of several FIAF archives.

Algiers International Symposium

Following requests for training from various film archives of the French Federation of Cinémathèques and Film Archives, FIAF has decided to partner with that network to offer a number of thematic workshops (taught in French) over the next year.

2018 FIAF Symposium: "Sharing"

The Call for Papers is now closed.

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.