FOCAL INTERNATIONAL Ltd
27 Mortimer Street
London W1T 3BL
U.K.
Tel: 44 (0) 203 948 1999
Individual Contacts:
Mary Egan - Director of Operations - mary@focalint.org
T: 44-20 3178 3535
FOCAL International (Federation Of Commercial Audiovisual Libraries) is a not for profit membership organization, which promotes the use of footage. It was formed in 1985 and its members are from over 30 countries around the world. The members are the footage and content archives, the freelance film and stills producers/researchers, consultants within the industry, facility houses, legal advisors etc.
We have FREE referral services for clients to find content for their programmes/projects from our members via the FOOTAGE AND CONTENT FINDER, plus if a client is requiring the services of an archive producer, facility etc, we have the SKILLS AND SERVICES FINDER.
We also hold the FOCAL International Awards each year. This is a major international competition and event, designed to focus attention on the footage industry and to celebrate the best use of footage in the creative media plus the work done to preserve and restore our audio visual archive heritage. For more information please go to the FOCAL International website www.focalint.org
In recent years FOCAL International has also been actively involved with discussing major changes to copyright being considered by the UK government and is also is a member of the EU Copyright Commission, to ensure the footage archives have a voice on these issues which affect all archives throughout the world.
