Category: Opportunities

Projectionists’ Workshops 2025

Applications for funding now open!

Following the success of the pilot phase of this new scheme last year, the ACE and FIAF are joining forces once again to support the ACE member institutions willing to spread and apply the knowledge and practice of analogue film projection. The idea of the Projectionists’ Workshop project is based on a common will to keep this craft and experience alive, and to support current and future colleagues in this field by offering them a platform for learning and sharing. 

The funding proposed (a total of 2.000€ per workshop) should help the selected hosting institutions to organise short Projectionists’ Workshops aimed at practicing professionals and motivated participants. It is expected that the workshops will attract participants by region and language, for the comfort of participants and to avoid long-distance travel. The financial contribution from ACE and FIAF can be used for honoraria, production of educational materials, accommodation, travel costs, and meals. 

The workshops should focus on knowledge exchange and best practices, for example in terms of repairs and maintenance, contact lists for suppliers of equipment and spare parts, and connections among projectionists. The workshops should also be open to projectionists not (yet) working for an archival cinema. 

How to apply?

Eligible applicants: ACE Members and/or FIAF affiliates based in Europe.

Financial allocation: The organising institution will receive between up to 2.000 EUR (joint support from ACE and FIAF).

Eligible expenses: Honoraria for invited experts/instructors, accommodation, travel costs, meals and coffee breaks, and production of educational materials.

Evaluation criteria:

  • Completeness of the application form
  • Clarity of the aims and content of the proposed workshop
  • Adequacy of the premises and equipment
  • Affordability of the event for the hosting institution
  • First-time applicants particularly encouraged

 

Please include the following information in your application:

  • Name of the organising institution
  • Region/language of the workshop
  • Contact information of responsible person(s)
  • Place of the workshop
  • Dates of the workshop
  • Hours of the workshop per day/proposed schedule
  • Number and profiles of the instructors
  • Maximum number of participants your workshop can host
  • Estimated itemised budget
  • Please describe the specific aims, content, and structure of the workshop you propose to host
  • Basic description of the projection equipment used during the workshop

Applications must be sent to projectionists@fiafnet.org by 1 September 2025. They will be evaluated by representatives of FIAF and ACE and selections announced by the end of September 2025. The selected workshops are expected to take place by May 2026.

A written report from the institution hosting the workshop should be submitted to projectionists@fiafnet.org no longer than two months after the workshop.

Any questions about this scheme? Please write to projectionists@fiafnet.org. 

 

 

    

Selection of restored prints of the Lumière film festival

The Lumière film festival, a major event of classic cinema, will run from Saturday the 11th to Sunday the 19th of October 2025. It aims again to feature a selection of the finest restorations of heritage films from around the world. Certain titles will subsequently be re-released in theatres or republished on video; others will be presented as events or unique opportunities to experience the works on a big screen.

The festival’s overall programming, and this section in particular, enable the Institut Lumière to reaffirm its commitment and support for the cinema of yesterday and today, paying tribute to its history, celebrating its diversity and richness, while bringing together all those who contribute to its preservation and vitality.

The Lumière Classics label was created to showcase these 20th-century film restorations and encourage the widest possible audience to (re)discover them. The films bearing the label may be included in various festival categories, including in the section “New Restorations” as well as in “Treasures and Curiosities”. The label highlights the extensive work carried out by archives, film libraries, rights holders and foundations who endeavour to restore classic films from the history of cinema, as well as lesser-known films that are equally essential to the worldwide cinematographic landscape.

Archives, film libraries, producers, distributors and studios from all over the world are invited to submit their restored films of the year.

Submitting films:

Are you currently working on or have you recently carried out a restoration?

Send your proposals to be considered for the Lumière film festival’s selection and to obtain the Lumière Classics label.

The deadline for submissions is on Friday 20 June.

Visit Lumière’s website to see the conditions for participation and how to register a film.

 

Festival Lumière (officiel)

READY – Resilience for Heritage in the Face of Disasters, Climate Risks and Complex Emergencies

Through the First Aid and Resilience for Cultural Heritage in Times of Crisis (FAR) programme, ICCROM has recently launched a new European initiative called READY.

READY is a 38-month capacity development project supported by the European Commission’s Directorate-General for Education, Youth, Sport, and Culture (DG EAC) under the Creative Europe Programme. It is designed to strengthen capacities for disaster risk management for cultural heritage—especially in the face of extreme weather events, armed conflict, and other complex emergencies.

In its first year, READY focuses specifically on movable and intangible heritage, including collections in museums, libraries, archives, and institutions safeguarding traditional practices and knowledge systems.

🎓 Call for Applications

Within the framework of READY Track 1, ICCROM is now inviting from diverse professionals in Creative Europe programme countries for an international course that combines online learning, in-person training, and follow-up field projects. The course will focus on safeguarding heritage collections, living traditions, and cultural practices before, during, and after disasters, conflicts, or extreme weather events.

The course includes:

  • Online in-depth conceptual and learning of foundational DRM concepts (20 Hours over 2 months)
  • In-person hands-on multi-disciplinary training in Riga, Latvia (10-12 days)
  • Follow-up field projects in participants’ home countries, supported by distance mentoring (4-6 months)
  • Field projects may include: (Not Limited to)
  • Developing tools for risk assessment and emergency preparedness in heritage contexts
  • Safeguarding intangible heritage, traditions, and practices in crisis settings
  • Building national/local cultural first aid teams
  • Strengthening coordination between heritage professionals and emergency responders

📅 Application deadline: 20 April 2025

For more information, please see:

  READY Brochure

  READY Course Announcement

OPEN CALL: Eye Traineeship Programme “Film Restoration” and “Film Collection”

Eye Filmmuseum is pleased to announce that the call for the Traineeship Programme “Film Restoration” and “Film Collection” for starting film restorers and film collection specialists is now open.

With these two traineeships, Eye aims to build a bridge between academic training and hands-on daily practices. This programme is designed to educate a new generation of film restorers and film collection specialists and seeks to facilitate their transition into the labour market.

Applicants are invited to send in their applications by July 1st, 2022.

For more information on the application process, please read the open call here: https://www.eyefilm.nl/uploads/downloads/blocks/vacature-2022-Traineeship-Call-for-Applications-EN.pdf.

If you have questions about the traineeships, please get in touch with Eleni Tzialli at eyeacademic@eyefilm.nl

Call for the 2nd Summer School Digital Archive

Photo by Manuela Clemens

The Filmuni Summer School is organising the Digital Archive Summer School in cooperation with FIAF Cataloguing & Documentation Commission, the Bundesarchiv and the Deutsche Kinemathek Berlin. The summer school “Digital Archives. Data Literacy and Presentation Strategies in Audiovisual Archives” is a 5-day, practice-oriented course aimed at people working in audiovisual archives as well as at everyone else who is interested in enhancing their knowledge about digital environments and processes related to digital archives. This year’s edition focuses on the subject of digital curation.

Date: 5-9 September 2022

Location: Film University Babelsberg KONRAD WOLF

Cost: 1030,- EUR (Early Bird 930,- EUR before 30 April 2022)

Registration deadline: 10 July 2022

More information

There is also the possibility to apply for a scholarship, sponsored by The International Federation of Film Archives (FIAF),  that covers full or partial participation fees. The application deadline for the FIAF scholarship is May 29, 2022.

Out-of-commerce Works Portal Datathon event

The European Union Intellectual Property Office (EUIPO), through the European Observatory on Infringement of Intellectual Property Rights (the Observatory), in collaboration with Europeana, is organising the Out-of-commerce Works Portal Datathon event.

The main objective of the Datathon event is to raise awareness of the existence of the new out-of-commerce works solution available under the Directive (EU) 2019/790 with the aim to facilitate the digitisation of out-of-commerce works. The event also aims to bring together leaders among the cultural heritage institutions, in order to increase visibility and further attractivity of the out-of-commerce works system.

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Swedish Film Institute is seeking a digital film restorer

The Swedish Film Institute Foundation plays a leading role in Swedish film. The Film Institute’s aim is to support the production, distribution, and screening of valuable film, to preserve Sweden’s film heritage and make it available, and to represent Swedish film internationally. The Film Institute also has a national mandate to enhance film knowledge in Sweden, and to provide the people with a range of film characterised by a wide diversity of stories.

 

The Film Institute is digitizing and restoring the Swedish film heritage, as well as making it available. Since 2013, approximately 500 films have been restored. The purpose is to create digital material that mimics the original analogue premiere as much as possible. Every year, around 50 films are restored, and most of the films are taken into distribution either via the rightsholders themselves or through the Film Institute’s own theatrical distribution.

 

As a digital film restorer, you are doing manual and semiautomated restoration to digitally remove scratches, dust, dirt, damage, shaking, etc. You will be working in the Digitization unit together with eleven other staff members.

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Deadline Reminder: Call for Proposals Eye International Conference 2022

From 29 – 31 May, 2022, Eye Filmmuseum, the University of Amsterdam (UvA), Amsterdam School for Cultural Analysis (ASCA), and the Association of Moving Image Archivists (AMIA) will present the 7th Eye International Conference on ‘Global Audiovisual Archiving: Exchange of Knowledge and Practices’.

The annual Eye International Conference is an opportunity for scholars, archivists, curators, researchers, filmmakers, students, artists, and film enthusiasts from across the world to gather and explore contemporary professional and academic issues affecting audiovisual heritage today.

The 2022 edition will focus on the imbalance or current misrepresentation of global audiovisual heritage holdings, looking in particular at the alarming scarcity of audiovisual heritage from the Global South in the digital space. We will provide speakers and participants a platform to encourage knowledge exchange between scholars and archivists from different parts of the world, and different archival traditions. The conference offers a space to consider the impact of geographical location, the availability of resources, technical and digital gaps, and different audiovisual traditions. We will discuss archival challenges and think together about new models for collaboration.

The goal of the conference is to broaden the knowledge and connections within the global archival community, leading to new insights on the status of film heritage and archiving in different parts of the world.

The Call for Proposals is now open and the deadline to apply is 16 January 2022. We encourage proposals from participants, archives, and regions that are underrepresented in conferences related to audiovisual heritage, discussing topics that highlight concrete, urgent, practical concerns, and threats to collections.

 

Read more about the Call for Proposals and submit your proposal online: www.eyefilm.nl/conference
Questions? Email us at conference@eyefilm.nl

 

Image © Francis Alÿs, REEL-UNREEL, 2011, Kabul, Afghanistan 2011, 19:32 min. In collaboration with Julien Devaux and Ajmal Maiwandi. BY-NC-ND

FIAF FILM RESTORATION SUMMER SCHOOL

Film restoration online course: from April 27th to June 8th 2022 (on Wednesdays)
Restoration lectures and Il Cinema Ritrovato film festival: Bologna, Cineteca facilities, from June 25th to July 3rd 2022
Restoration workshops: Bologna, L’Immagine Ritrovata, July 4th-15th 2022

The Fédération Internationale des Archives du Film (FIAF), the Association des Cinémathèques Européennes (ACE), Cineteca di Bologna and L’Immagine Ritrovata are thrilled to announce that after the forced postponement of the 2020 edition, the ninth FIAF Film Restoration Summer School will finally take place in Bologna in summer 2022.

The Coronavirus-19 pandemic has had a big impact on our lives during the last two years, but the institutions behind the Summer School have come together once again in order to renew and strengthen their long lasting cooperation, a bond that aims to pursue the spread of film preservation and conservation through the international community. Specialists, film archive staff and students that are looking forward to experience the complete restoration workflow in our two-decade experienced film restoration laboratory are more than welcome to apply.

The program and further details will be available on January 2022.

Please contact frss@immagineritrovata.it if you wish to receive further information and subscribe to our mailing list.

Coordinator: Elena Tammaccaro

Secretariat: Charlotte Oddo