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[Translate to français:] The application deadline has been postponed to 26 May!
The project of the Film Restoration Summer School /FIAF Summerschool, which was started in 2007, is part of a wider training programme from Fédération Internationale des Archives du Film (FIAF), established in 1973. The main goal of the Summer School consists in having participants trained in film restoration and in the preservation of film heritage through the adoption and application of analogic and digital technologies.
Thanks to the support of FIAF, the Association des Cinémathèques Européennes (ACE), and the EU’s MEDIA programme, the Cineteca del Comune di Bologna has decided to design a two-year training programme on film restoration for the years 2008 and 2009.
The Film Restoration Summer School / FIAF Summer School 2008 is conceived both for learners and students. The aim is to foster a shared knowledge in the field for current and future generations and
world film archives. Special attention will be given to participants coming from countries with less developed traditions of restoration. Classes will be in English.
Programme 2008
The Film Restoration Summer School / FIAF Summer School will be organized in three phases
- Theory Lessons on Film Restoration: distance learning: 27 May – 24 June (every Tuesday)
- Attendance at Il Cinema Ritrovato film festival: Bologna, 28 June – 5 July
- Restoration practice: Bologna, 7-12 July
During the festival, the European Project EDCine will be organising two full days of training focused on digital technologies for film archives in digital ingest, storage, access and distribution.
Participants to the Film Restoration Summer School will be automatically registered for this event.
About Participants
Participants will be selected according to their CV, commitment, and motivation. All applications will be examined by a special commission composed of representatives of FIAF, ACE, and the Cineteca di Bologna. The commission will officially release the names of the 40 selected participants via the Film Restoration Summer School / FIAF Summer School 2008 website on the middle of May 2008.
The school will be divided into two levels, Junior and Intermediary. Skills evaluation will determine a separation into different groups on the basis of personal CV and film archive experience.
Participation fee: 1,500 Euros. The participation fee includes registration, festival pass, room, and lunch for 13 days.
The deadline for submitting the application form is 26 May. The detailed programme of conferences and seminars will be available from June.
The programme can be downloaded here as pdf-file
The application form can be downloaded here as pdf-file
Project Partners
Cineteca del Commune di Bologna
Gian Luca Farinelli
cinetecadirezione(at)commune.bologna.it
www.cinetecadibologna.it
FIAF
Christian Dimitriu
c.dimitriu(at)fiafnet.org
www.fiafnet.org
ACE
Kerstin Herlt
ace(at)deutsches-filminstitut.de
www.acefilm.de
L'Immagine Ritrovata
Film Restoration Summer School/FIAF Summer School
Davide Pozzi
davide.pozzi(at)immagineritrovata.it
Elena Tammaccaro
elena.tammacaro(at)immagineritrovata.it
www.immagineritrovata.it
[Translate to français:] The MIDAS project aims at addressing effectively one of the bottlenecks blocking the full development of an efficient European distribution – for commercial and cultural purposes – of EU archival materials having historical and cultural value. This bottleneck, on which there is a vast consensus of a wide spectrum of stakeholders, consists in the complex, time consuming and costly process of locating archival materials across European collections, and identifying the copyright owners.
The project addresses this issue by establishing technical solutions apt to making possible the search and retrieval of archival materials held in a number of collections across Europe by centralising the process of search and retrieval, and by overcoming the language barriers. MIDAS is a pilot project in the MEDIA Plus programme of the European Commission and is carried out by 18 institutions dedicated to collecting and preserving film heritage in Europe – 16 of them ACE members. The Deutsches Filminstitut – DIF e.V. in Frankfurt is coordinating the project.
Project Duration: January 15, 2006 until January 15, 2009
http://www.midas-film.org/
Web portal filmarchives online
"filmarchives online. Finding Moving Images in European Collections" – www.filmarchives-online.eu - is the visible result of the MIDAS project. Since February 2007 it gives access to catalogue information of a growing number of archives. Via this multi-lingual web gateway film works can be searched for by content, filmographic data and physical characteristics. Detailed search results provide information on existence and location of the materials as well as contact details to facilitate access.
The data exports from all 18 partners have been ingested partly into the MIDAS system so far. By the end of 2008 all MIDAS partners' contribution will be accessible online. Updating routines have been established, so that the partners contributing metadata will be able to upload files on their own even after MIDAS has ended.
A co-operation has been initiated in 2006 with the digital short film distribution portal reelport (www.reelport.com). reelport delivers metadata to MIDAS. The Scottish Screen Archive, who will contribute to filmarchives online.eu in summer 2008 the latest, does not belong to the MIDAS consortium either, but chose to make parts of their stock available via filmarchives online. A further co-operation is currently being initiated with the German search portal for libraries, archives and museums (BAM-Portal). MIDAS will deliver metadata to this portal, which will widen the user base considerably.
Target audience
filmarchives online aims at user groups ranging from the area of scientific research to the professional media and film production domain. The database's content focuses on non-fiction material; i.e. documentary and educational film, newsreels, travelogues, comercial advertising, scientific, industrial, experimental, sports as well as animation films.
MIDAS II
On July 17, the proposal for the second year of MIDAS was submitted. It was approved by the European Commission. This meant EU funding for MIDAS until January 2008. The second project year officially started on January 15, 2007, with a total EU funding of 322.549 EUR. In addition to the five current partners, eleven new partners joined the consortium.
MIDAS III
In October 2007 the propasal for a third and final MIDAS year had been approved by MEDIA Plus. MIDAS III started January 15, 2008 and will run through January 15, 2009. The total EU funding for the third project year is 349.004 EUR. Two new partners joined the project in 2008.
Project partners:
MIDAS partner list
Project website: http://www.midas-film.org/
Web portal: http.//www.filmarchives-online.eu
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[Translate to français:] Project duration: 2005 - end of 2008
In 2005, the European Commission mandated the European Committee for Standardization (CEN) with the development of a European metadata standard on cataloguing and indexing practices of cinematographic works. The CEN Technical Office (CEN/BT) formed a task force (TF 179) and appointed the Deutsches Institut für Normung (DIN) as the secretariat. Committee members come from major standardization bodies and film archives throughout the European Union.
For more infomation please see www.filmstandards.org
[Translate to français:] 
The European Commission launches in cooperation with ACE European Cinema Heritage Week.
"Organised for the first time and running between 15 and 24 November 2002, European Cinema Heritage Week will consist of a programme of major European cinema films in cinemas and film libraries, with special showings organised, particularly for schools. The renowned Spanish director Pedro Almodovar has agreed to be sponsor for the Week, which will have a dual aim: to raise the awareness of Europeans, and particularly young people, of the great wealth of European cinema cultures, with the hope of encouraging them to go and see more non-national European films, but also to promote discussion of the visual image and approaches to education in the visual image."
Here you can find out who is participating in CINEDAYS:
Provisional list of partners and events 
Provisional list of Europa Cinemas and their programmes
Participating ACE Archives
1. The Context: Euopean Film Heritage and Digital Technologies: a need for Standards
There is little doubt that Film Heritage is an important part of the European history, and of its cultural identity. This heritage represents a pivotal asset for contemporary cultural industry, and archival films provide content for broadcasters and cable-TVs, for a growing DVD market, for broadband applications and multimedia products, and also for contemporary productions.
Today, modern Digital techniques are opening new perspectives in the domain of conserving, restoring, and accessing the enormous film collections held by public and private institutions all over Europe. In order to fully develop the possibilities opened up by these new techniques, and in order to fully exploit these new ways of addressing the issue of the preservation of the Film Heritage for cultural or commercial purposes, a strong need of Standards and Recommended Practices is generally felt.
2. The Project: Different points of view, a common roundtable
To a great extent, using Digital techniques means to open up possibilities of unprecedented synergies among different areas of applications and use of the Film Heritage. The European Film Archives have acknowledged this basic truth, and are fully aware that the issues involved in Digitisation must be dealt with in a wider perspective, representing the different points of view of the existing stakeholders.
Up to now, a common approach on the issue of Digitisation and Archival Films is lacking. Digital techniques are studied and experimented by Film Archives, TV channels, IT companies, multimedia providers in a parallel and separate (although vastly overlapping) way. Synergies, exchange of experiences, process economies were therefore precluded, as well as any understanding of any different point of view.
For the very first time in Europe, the Project FIRST has set up a table where Digital and Film Heritage is an issue discussed as a whole.
In facts, FIRST has the aim of studying the "state of the Art", of proposing new fields of research, to sketch new economical scenarios, to evaluate existing techniques, to issue recommendations, to propose widely accepted Standards and Best Practices. In other words, FIRST is a chance to promote and create a "mature" scenario for the application of Digital techniques to Film Heritage.
Click here for more information
Project Duration: 1993 - 1998
The Joint European Filmography (JEF) is a database project which was initiated by LUMIERE in 1992. The idea is simple: To consolidate all sources of European records into a single database and produce and market in book and CD-Rom form a Joint Filmography of all European Film production from the earliest times to the present.
[Translate to français:] Project Duration: 1997 -2004
The European training network for the promotion of Cinema Heritage, ARCHIMEDIA, has been the initiative of the Cinémathèque Royale Brussels and the Université‚ Paris III / Sorbonne Nouvelle and was established in 1997 with the support of MEDIA II. The aim of the ARCHIMEDIA project was to establish formally on a European level an active network of co-operation between archives and universities, developing together a specific training programme which both meets their needs and combines their individual strengths.
This network of film archives, universities and audiovisual laboratories offered two programmes: an introductory training course for graduates of universities and a series of workshops, colloquia and seminars designed exclusively for professionals from archives and the audiovisual industries.
http://www.ledoux.be/archimedia/presentation_en.htm
[Translate to français:] In 1997 this project was financed by the Raphael programme (1997-1999) with 32.000 ecu. During 1997 Vittorio Martinelli and Gian Luca Farinelly have examined unidentified material in the Bundesarchiv Berlin, the Cineteca Italiana Milano and the Cinemathèque Suisse Lausanne. The lists of identified films have been communicated to all European film archives. A workshop was organised during the festival Il Cinema Ritrovato 1997 in Bologna, led by professor Brunetta from the University of Padova, about the hisitory of forgetting and rediscovering the cinema heritage. In the financial report that was approved by the GA in Pordenone a reservation of 10.000 was made for the Search for Lost Films 1998, in case no European subsidy would be granted. Since this now is the situation, a short term planning has been made based on this budget.
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- Kaleidoscope 1996 project: All the colours of the World. Colours in early mass media 1900-1930.
This project has resulted in a colloquium during the festival Il Cinema Ritrovato 1997 in Bologna and a book on the subject in Italian and English, published by Grafis with the support of the Istituto per i beni culturali della Regione Emilia-Romagna.
- Film Archives On Line (FAOL)
This three-year project aims to create educational instruments for people working in film archives or laboratories specialised in restoration. The idea is to provide this training, using texts as well as stills and moving images, from a distance through multimedia means. Gamma
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