News Archive

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

06/06/2018

2018 Film Preservation & Restoration Workshop India

FPRWI 2018 will take place in Kolkata, West Bengal, from 16-21 November 2018. More infor on this workshop anounced soon.

15/05/2018

The FIAF Technical Commission's Digital Statement

The Digital Statement

Part I

12/05/2018

2019 FIAF Congress

08/05/2018

FIAF Honorary Members

FIAF has three new Honorary Members!

07/05/2018

FIAF Associates

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.

30/04/2018

Vacancy at the FIAF Secretariat

28/04/2018

The Madrid Project

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

24/04/2018

Journal of Film Preservation

10/04/2018

2018 FIAF Film Restoration Summer School

2018 FIAF Film Restoration Summer School in Bologna

04/04/2018

ARRI Archive Workshop 2018

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

26/03/2018

2018 EYE International Conference

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

07/02/2018

3rd FIAF Programming Winter School

2018 Programming Winter School

Registration is now closed.

01/02/2018

Film Preservation in Practice Workshop - Mumbai

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Film Preservation In Practice, Mumbai, March 2018

18/01/2018

Peter Kubelka presented with the FIAF Hononary Membership Medal

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.

15/01/2018

Towards a New Audiovisual Think Tank for Audiovisual Archivists and Cultural Heritage Professionals

11/01/2018

A new Chair for the CCAAA

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

08/01/2018

FIAF's 80th anniversary logo

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

20/12/2017

FIAF Bulletin Online #15

20/12/2017

Christian Dimitriu Fund

2018 Christian Dimitriu Fund

How to apply?

12/12/2017

Call for Papers for the 2018 SEAPAVAA Conference

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

01/12/2017

Restoration Asia V

The deadline for submissions of papers for Restoration Asia V to take place in Bangkok on 6 April 2018 is 31 December 2017.

27/11/2017

New Head of PACC Announced

25/11/2017

Sustainable Audiovisual Collections through Collaboration

09/11/2017

27èmes Rencontres européennes d'INEDITS

07/11/2017

2017 Meeting of the Nordic and Baltic Film Archives

27/10/2017

Digitization of FIAF's Collection of Audio Tapes

27/10/2017

Unlocking Sound and Image Heritage

19/10/2017

Film:ReStored_02

19/10/2017

FiRe Conference in Warsaw

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.

19/10/2017

Colloque international d’Alger

Algiers International Symposium

09/10/2017

New training for French and francophone film archives

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.

09/10/2017

2018 FIAF Symposium: Call for Papers

2018 FIAF Symposium: "Sharing"

The Call for Papers is now closed.

02/08/2017

No Time to Wait Symposium

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.

28/07/2017

Le Giornate del Cinema Muto 36

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.

26/07/2017

NFSA's 2017 Collection Policy

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.

23/06/2017

Two FIAF Technical Commission Workshops

TC Workshops in Bologna

22/06/2017

ACE Workshop on Collection Mangement Tools in the 21st Century

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.

22/06/2017

Programme of the 2017 Il Cinema Ritrovato Festival

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

21/06/2017

2018 International Domitor Conference

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".

14/06/2017

2017 Film Corner International Conference

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).

19/05/2017

John Kuiper

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.

16/05/2017

FIAF Archives at 2017 Cannes Classics

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.

10/05/2017

2017 FIAF Award Presented to Christopher Nolan