2020 FIAF Film Restoration Summer School in Bologna: Applications close on 16 February

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.

2020 FIAF Programming Winter School: full programme and registration form now available

2020 Christian Dimitriu Fund

Deadline for applications 14 February 2020

The Call for Papers is now available. Deadline for submissions: 3 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

Videos of the Lausanne Symposium now available

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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

Photos of the 2019 FIAF Congress

The Digital Statement

Part V: Survey on Long-term Digital Storage and Preservation

2019 FIAF Award presented to Jean-Luc Godard

FIAF Moving Image Cataloguing Manual Survey

FIAF Moving Image Cataloguing Manual Survey

Agnès Varda (1928-2019)

Linked Open Data for Filmarchives Workshop

The Call for Presentations on the theme "Memory, History, and Archives" is open until 11 January 2019.

Applications should be submitted no later than midnight EST on Thursday, January 31, 2019

Submissions are open for the 2019 competition and FOCAL welcome entries from the whole spectrum of production, restoration and preservation spheres. Early bird submission rates are available until 31 December 2018. 

The full text of the 2018 FIAF recipient's acceptance speech is now available here.

2018 FIAF Award

To celebrate FIAF's 80th anniversary and the 2018 World Day for Audiovisual Heritage, we are pleased to announce the completion of the digitization of the audio-recordings of FIAF meetings and the launch of their online access.

2019 FIAF Symposium

New Deadline for the Call for Papers

The 28th annual meeting of INEDITS will take place in Annecy, France, from 22-25 November 2018. As well as bringing members together, this year the meeting will focus on amateur films and travel, and examine the place of animated films in our collections.

The call for papers for this symposium is now open. Send your proposal by 23 November.

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.