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PROJECTS
There is a desperate need
for skills and knowledge in AV archiving in the region. SEAPAVAA
has approached the need using a mix of formats.
Skills Development
Summer Schools
The
Summer School format brings together an international grouping, around
20 people, for an intensive period of 3 to 4 weeks. Long enough to
share, to bond, to learn. This is how SEAPAVAA began and it laid a
good foundation for the association.
Under
the umbrella of of the ASEAN/Australia forum, a series of three
training seminars using this format, sequentially on general archive
management, cataloguing, and preservation, were jointly hosted by
ASEAN Committee on Culture and Information and the Australian
Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade. Further assistance was
provided by Kodak. The first seminar turned out to be the direct
catalyst for the formation of SEAPAVAA itself, an idea first mooted at
a regional conference in Manila four years earlier.
Traveling Workshops
The
idea is the reverse of the summer school. The trainers, not the
participants, are imported. A sequential cycle of week-long workshops
on a single theme move from country to country. Two resource persons
and up to 50 participants.
The
format involves field inspections of selected archives in the city
concerned, book ended by some formal teaching and evaluation of the
situation of these archives. It is very much anchored to the local
situation.
Made to Order
There is a need to respond to need by devising gatherings for
particular purposes. SEAPAVAA has conducted trainings on vinegar
syndrome and preservation of audiovisual materials to meet the
perennial problems of AV archives in the region.
Read more
about
SEAPAVAA Trainings.
Repatriation
Assistance
Vietnam
Repatriation
and Assistance to Laos
The Vietnam
Film Institute had for some 30 years stored about 1300 cans of
Lao film, in the knowledge that adequate storage facilities did not
then exist in Laos. As the Lao National Film Archive developed and
acquired those facilities, the film came home on a formal
repatriation. Now Vietnam is helping Laos to fit out its premises with
new storage facilities and equipment under the umbrella of a cultural
development agreement between the countries.
Technical
Assistance
Giliw Ko
Restoration
Giliw Ko is an
enchanting 1939 musical made by LVN studios in Manila, one of the tiny
handful of pre-World War II Philippine feature films still known to
survive, Its restoration from the one surviving shrunken and buckled
16mm print back to 35mm was a joint project of the Philippine
Information Agency and the National Film and Sound Archive of
Australia. It was financed by the Australian Government as a gift to
the Philippine people on the occasion of the centenary of their
Republic.
Access to
Information
ASEAN
Catalog of Film and TV Productions
A compilation of of
information on representative films and TV productions made in the
member-countries. This is a shared catalog accessible through the
ASEAN website and hosted by Screensound Australia.
Read more
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Basic Manual on Setting-Up an Archive
Read more in SEAPAVAA Publications.
The Book: Films in
Southeast Asia: Views from the Region
Read more in SEAPAVAA Publications.
Film Preservation
Handbook
Read more in SEAPAVAA Publications.
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