Job announcement: Data Co-ordinator

2012-01-19 |Deutsches Filminstitut - DIF e.V. is looking for a DATA COORDINATOR and INGESTION SUPERVISOR working full-time from 1 March 2012 or at the earliest opportunity. As Data Coordinator and Ingestion Supervisor you will be responsible for the organisation and coordination of collections metadata derived from the film digitisation project EFG1914, to be ingested and made available through www.europeanfilmagteway.eu and www.europeana.eu. The position is available until 14 February 2014, in the first instance.

Interested? - Find more information (in German).

Europeana launches redesign

2011-10-13 |Europeana.eu, Europe’s digital library, museum and archive, launched a redesign with new functionality. The new interface has more visual appeal and has been adapted for iPads and Android touchscreens, bringing all the benefits of touch to Europe’s online treasury. The portal's makeover has been shaped by its users, who have helped to create the services they wanted around their cultural heritage. The Europeana portal gives access to currently more than 19 million images, texts, audio files and films from over 1000 European heritage institutions, including film archives.

Explore www.europeana.eu
Read the official press release about the redesign.

“Digital cinema: What Does the Future Hold for Cinematheques?” - International Symposium at La Cinémathèque française

2011-09-06 |On 13 and 14 October, international film makers, technicians, producers, curators and historians will meet in Paris at La Cinémathèque française to discuss the radical transformation from analogue to digital and its effects on the founding missions of cinémathèques (to collect, conserve, restore and show). The speakers will assess the current situation, talk about the lifespan of a film today, techniques in use and their development as well as about recommendations on restoration and conservation of data.

Read the full programme here

European Film Gateway Portal is Online

2011-07-26 | The European Film Gateway portal, which gives access to digital collections of 16 European film archives, is now online. Search through about 400,000 films, images and texts, find hidden treasures from the pre-cinema era till today. Check out beautiful magic lantern slides, rare shorts by famous filmmakers like Antonioni or Carl Th. Dreyer as well as an abundance of film posters and photos. The portal is the result of the EU-funded project named "EFG - The European Film Gateway, which started in September 2008 with 21 partners from 15 European countries. Until the end of the EFG project in August, further collections will be added and are waiting to be discovered. Everything on the EFG is also searchable via Europeana.eu.

Visit the EFG portal at www.europeanfilmgateway.eu.

Read the full press release.

Find out more about the project behind the EFG portal here.

Go to www.europeana.eu.

Second EUscreen International Conference on Use and Creativity

2011-07-07 | EUscreen, the best practice network for Europe’s television heritage, organizes its Second International Conference on Use and Creativity. The conference takes place in Stockholm on 15 and 16 September 2011. The conference will explore creative approaches to enhance online accessibility of European television heritage.

The goal is to expand methods to reach a wide range of users and to increase their engagement with online heritage materials. The programme consists of two workshops, a plenary session with keynotes and case studies by renowned experts in the field. Attendance is free of charge, but registration is required. For more information about the conference and to register please go to: http://euscreen2011.eventbrite.com.
  
Read the official press release here.

New Video on Demand Platform for Dutch Film and Audiovisual Heritage

2011-04-07 | Ximon.nl, the new online streaming platform of the Dutch film and TV heritage institutions, was launched today. Over 650 hours of high quality feature films, documentaries and TV drama are now available for online viewing. The earliest work dates from 1901 and the latest productions were made in 2010. Prices start from 0.99 eurocents for a video. Ximon’s platform automatically adjusts the quality of the video stream, even up to full HD (1080p), depending on the end-users’ bandwidth and local computer power. Initiators EYE Film Institute Netherlands (Film) and the Netherlands Institute for Sound and Vision (TV) plan to make their whole digitised repository available through Ximon in the next couple of years.

Visit Ximon.nl

Call for Filmmakers with Mediterranean Projects

2011-03-30 |Storydoc is a training programme with the focus on the development of documentary projects – www.storydoc.gr. The Projects wanted should have a strong Mediterranean connection.  The call is open to filmmakers from the Region, other filmmakers with a project that deals with the area as well as to Palestinian and other filmmakers from the region. 20 projects will be selected, plus 5 from Greece and STORYDOC will offer 5 scholarships to the selected projects.

Deadline for submission of projects is April 26.
Find more information here.

World War I in Everyday Documents - Pictures, Letters and Memorabilia Wanted

2011-03-24 | The Europeana project “The First World War in everyday documents” is launched today with a call to the public in Germany to participate in building a digital European archive by contributing private memorabilia from the First World War. Europeana are looking for photographs, letters, diaries, short films, audio recordings, objects and their stories. Following the launch of the project, four roadshows take place in Frankfurt am Main, Berlin, Munich and Stuttgart. The project is a partnership between Europeana, the Deutsche Nationalbibliothek and Oxford University. People are asked to bring World War 1 memorabilia to the roadshows. They will be digitised professionally and added to the online archive, along with corresponding descriptions. Independently of the roadshows, everyone can contribute their digitised images and information to the website www.europeana1914-1918.eu.

Here is the video of the campaign:

Otto & Bernard International version from europeana on Vimeo.

Swedish Films Online

2011-02-22 | The Swedish Film Institute and the National Library of Sweden recently launched the new web site www.filmarkivet.se, which offers the opportunity to see unique archival moving image material from Sweden that otherwise are rarely accessed. The films available for online viewing are mainly shorts, non-fiction films, news-reels and commercials. They are films that reflect the transformation of Swedish society over the last century. Some 300 films are available at the moment, a figure that will doubled before the end of the year.

www.filmarkivet.se
Swedish Film Institute
National Library of Sweden

EYE Film Institute Netherlands Launches Website "Instant Cinema"

2011-02-07 | EYE Film Institute Netherlands launched a global platform for experimental and art films with its new website. The goal of the project, initiated by filmmaker and multimedia expert René Daalder, is to make the remarkable works of experimental filmmakers and artists accessible to audiences worldwide. The website features both classics from the experimental genre as well as new films by young filmmakers. Instant Cinema was launched yesterday during the International Film Festival Rotterdam.

Visit "Instant Cinema".

Read the full press release here.

Guidelines for Copyright Clearance and IPR Management

2011-02-03 | In order to bring archival materials held in film archives online and giving access to them, rights clearing is one of the central topics tackled by the European Film Gateway (EFG) project. EYE Film Institute in Amsterdam, leader of the work package dedicated to copyright issues in the EFG project, has established Guidelines for Copyright Clearance and IPR Management. The report includes also an overview of legal frameworks in EU countries for the film sector, copyright basics (moral rights vs. exploitation rights, orphan works etc) and guidelines on how to clear rights related to film works.

The EFG project's main aim is to build a single access point to the digital collections of 16 European film archives. The portal will allow to search for pictures, texts and films and will go online in the next few weeks.

The report can be downloaded here.

For comments or questions on the report, please contact:
Eye Film Institute, Amsterdam
Department Legal & Access
Leontien Bout (LeontienBout(at)eyefilm.nl)
Geraldine Vooren (GeraldineVooren(at)eyefilm.nl)

To find out more about the European Film Gateway go here.

Cineteca di Bologna Launches CINESTORE

2011-02-03 | Videos and photos from the diverse collections of the Cinteca di Bologna as well as books and DVD editions published by the Cineteca are now available online. The amount of materials offered by CINESTORE will increase periodically. An English version of the website is coming soon.

http://cinestore.cinetecadibologna.it

Danish Film History online

2011-02-03 | The Danish Film Institut in Copenhagen published an English version of Peter Schepelern’s cruise through Danish Film History from 1896 to 2009. Decade by decade, readers can discover all tendencies and genres, from escapism to social realism, from family comedies to the Dogme film, from mainstream to avant-garde, from action flicks to documentaries.

http://www.dfi.dk/English/News/January-2011/Learn-more-about-Danish-Cinema.aspx