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Conference Report
1998 SEAPAVAA ANNUAL
CONFERENCE
Theme: Emerging
Audio-Visual: Accessing the Voice and Vision of Southeast Asia and the
Pacific
Hanoi, Vietnam
Despite
the current crisis in Asia, which unfortunately prevented many
intending delegates from traveling to Hanoi, the third SEAPAVAA
conference held in Vietnam was a relatively large conference. There were
forty-four official delegates and observers from thirteen countries,
with around 100 people attending the symposium and official functions.
The conference was hosted by the Vietnam Film Institute.
Held in
the new Horison Hotel in downtown Hanoi, sessions were presented in
English and Vietnamese in simultaneous translations. The conference
officially opened on March 22, with the keynote address of the Deputy
Prime Minister of Vietnam Mr. Pham Gia Khiem. Participants lent
color to the opening ceremonies by wearing their national costumes
while an honour guard from Vietnam's youth movement presented a bouquet
of flowers to each foreign guest.
Papers
and presentations ranged from current situationers from various
countries; a detailed coverage of AV archiving activity in Vietnam;
the newly-launched ASEAN AV database; copyright and legal
deposit issues; technical topics on audio, video and film; and the
promotion and delivery of access services. These were complemented
with the sharing of case studies and "solutions that worked".
The
General Assembly took up the committee reports, ratification of new
members, adoption of the work program and budget for the coming year,
and other matters.
A
festival of films from the collection of SEAPAVAA members was
presented at the VFI cinema. Historian David Hanan (Australia)
and film critic Agustin Sotto (Philippines) offered an overview, in
film clips, about the emergence of southeast Asia from colonialism
during the first seventy years of the century.
Participants got a taste of Vietnam culture in the water puppetry
show, visit to Ho Chi Minh mausoleum, and an excursion to Ha Long Bay,
a world-renowned UNESCO heritage site.
Among
the outcome of the conference were: the adoption of a policy statement
(SEAPAVAA's first) on the subject of access; production of a succinct
history of the cinemas of southeast Asian countries; strengthening of
committee activities.
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