The ACE General Assembly has elected a new executive committee as follows:
The Executive Committee 2026–2028 is:
Also in the picture: Paulina Reizi, ACE’s wonderful Paulina, EC Coordinator and Senior Project Manager.
The 2026 ACE general Assembly has been convoked, and will take place on 24 June, 2026 at 2–5 p.m. at MAMbo – Museo d’Arte Moderna di Bologna, Via Giovanni Minzoni 14, 40121 Bologna, Italy.
Members can peruse the meeting documents in the members’ area.
As every year, FINA is organising a specialist training programme, as part of its role as a Competence Centre in the field of film heritage digitisation. The training will take place in November 2025 and will cover key topics related to the preparation for digitisation, digitisation and digital restoration of film image and sound.
Until now, the training has been addressed to Polish participants and conducted entirely in Polish. This year, however, the programme is being expanded to international participants, with a focus on Central and Eastern European countries. It is intended primarily for:
Training format:
👉Registration link:
https://forms.office.com/e/gDFDsateSw
As previously announced to the membership, ACE’s photochemical survey is now available on this website without logging in. This way, the results are available for consultation by all users of the ACE website.
Reminding all those who have not yet responded, this small survey of existing technical resources (and needs) for photochemical operations aims to make this information public and available. This allows all ACE members to communicate to our community what resources we have in this area of preservation and exhibition of analogue film heritage, thus providing this information on the ACE website, so that everyone can easily find partners with common challenges, needs and problems.
Thanks to the synergy of ACE members and this sharing of knowledge, this research should help the film preservation community find common solutions.
Please don’t hesitate to fill in the survey form and send it to ace@ace-film.eu.
Rui Machado
President: Michal Bregant, Narodní filmový archiv, Prague
Treasurer: Thomas Christensen, Det Danske Filminstitut, Copenhagen
Secretary General: Mikko Kuutti, National Audiovisual Institute, Helsinki
Chicca Bergonzi, Cinémathèque suisse, Lausanne
Anna Fiaccarini, Cineteca di Bologna, Bologna
Anne Gant, Eye Filmmuseum, Amsterdam
Ellen Harrington, DFF – Deutsches Filminstitut & Filmmuseum, Frankfurt
Rui Machado, Cinemateca Portuguesa-Museu do Cinema, Lisbon
Arianna Turci, Cinémathèque royale de Belgique
Here depicted with Paulina Reizi. At your service.
A new collaboration tool has been launched. More info on it can be found on the ACE Zulip page, which is also linked to in the ACE menu at the top.
28 June 2022
10 a.m. – 5 p.m.
MAMbo – Museo d’Arte Moderna di Bologna
Via Giovanni Minzoni 14, 40121 Bologna, Italy
The beginning of the 21st century brought along the most significant technological transformation that cinema has undergone since its invention.
The replacement by digital of analogue technology in the entire cinematographic chain from production to exhibition has had far more profound consequences than all the technological changes that occurred in the first century of cinema. These include the replacement of the 35mm cellulose nitrate film base with cellulose triacetate, and even the transition from silent cinema to sound cinema.
One of the consequences of the digital transformation is the need to establish an all-new archival methodology — including digital repositories whose long-term viability is still unproven. But another, no less decisive consequence, is the need to define how we intend, from now on, to preserve and exhibit the great historical collection of 20th century cinema.
From 21st to 26th September, the National Film Institute is organizing – for the fourth time – Budapest’s largest international film event, Budapest Classics Film Marathon. During the six days of the festival, audiences can watch more than 70 recently restored classic films in five themed blocks at various venues around the capital. To the delight of Budapesters, the square in front of St. Stephen’s Basilica is once again being transformed into a free open-air cinema on four evenings.
National Film Institute celebrates 120 years of Hungarian film with several large-scale events this year. The Hungarian Motion Picture Festival was brought to life this summer, the exhibition Wide Angle in Ludwig Museum is a broad-ranging overview of Hungarian film history (open until mid-November 2021), and the opening gala of the 4th Budapest Classics Film Marathon in Uránia National Film Theatre on the evening of 21 September is similarly a celebration of this important anniversary. At the gala there will be a screening – in a selection made up Lumière films from 1896 – of the first film footage shot in Hungary; an animation documentary made about the birth of the first Hungarian film, A táncz (The Dance), and the digitally restored (2K) version of Sándor Korda’s cult silent film from 1918 Az aranyember, with musical accompaniment composed by Bence Farkas and performed by Győr Philharmonic Orchestra.
“This year is very special because we have the opportunity to celebrate several anniversaries that are important from the aspect of the history of Hungarian film. Cameramen of the Lumière brothers shot the first footage in Hungary 125 years ago, the first directed Hungarian film debuted 120 years ago, and 90 years ago Hungarian sound film was born, the first triumph of which, Hyppolit, a lakáj (Hyppolit, the Butler), remains enormously popular even after the passage of nine decades. In 2017, when we launched the Budapest Classics Film Marathon, we undertook to showcase Hungarian film history, the impact of Hungarian filmmakers on global film history, and the great classics of universal film history on the big screen. To achieve this goal, we called on the family of international film archives, which since then have continuously sent their restored precious films to the Film Marathon. This year, we are once again inviting all lovers of cinema on an exciting journey through time from the era of silent films to recent decades, thus paying tribute to the talent of great filmmakers and artists.”
– György Ráduly, Director of National Film Institute Hungary – Film Archive
The goal of the Classics Film Marathon is to spotlight the values of Hungarian film and present the treasures preserved in European archives to a Hungarian audience. This year the Marathon showcases newly restored classics and film rarities in five blocks: Hommage, In Focus, Hungarians in Hollywood, Hungarian Eye, Open Archives.
Programme: https://filmarchiv.hu/en/filmmarathon/2021.
Das DFF – Deutsches Filminstitut & Filmmuseum e.V. sucht zum nächstmöglichen Zeitpunkteine
Kuratorische Leitungder Sammlungen–Abteilungsleitung Non-Film-Archiv (m/w/d)
Are now available in the Members’ Area.
