Calendar of Forthcoming Training Events
This calendar lists all known forthcoming training events in the audiovisual archiving field, all around the world. The information it contains is taken from the CCAAA website. Should you want to add a training event to the calendar, please visit this page.
The structure of the Film Preservation Studies master’s degree course approaches cinema through its material nature and technological genealogy. The first two modules explore the photochemical origin of film images, and the subsequent ones focus on the peculiarities of the magnetic and digital formats. These branches together form a common set of specific knowledge: each image and each sound poses unique questions about its identification, degradation, preservation and cataloguing, but also about aesthetic and ethical issues, about the future of cinema, its sense of history and the profession of the archivist.
The content systematisation and working methods proposed by the course do not, however, lead to a simple and/or simplified understanding of the material under study. Quite the opposite, in fact; at the end of their journey, students are invited to explore the ‘grand memory of images’ from a complex and paradoxical perspective. And this is just as it should be, because even when the path to follow is perfectly defined, the journey of an archivist always leads eventually to the labyrinth of images of our era. The greatest treasure we could ever inherit.
The FOCAL Mentoring Programme helps and provides guidance to people willing to grow a career in the archive industry and break into the film footage world. Every year, FOCAL looks for newcomers to the archive/footage or individuals who aspire to develop their careers in various aspects of the archive industry.
Since 2010, INA (French National Audiovisual Institute) organizes the yearly FRAME training programme, with the support of EBU Academy, FIAT/IFTA, and the Creative Europe MEDIA programme. The 2024 edition of FRAME starts with the opening of the FRAME Mentoring call for applications, until March 17th.
The programme is addressed to all junior professionals (around max. 5 years of experience at the same or similar position) working in the audiovisual field. It aims at supporting them in their career path development and at implementing one of his/her project. 2 applicants will be selected.
- The mentoring programme includes:
- Monthly online exchanges with your mentor and other relevant experts, from June to December 2024
- A professional immersion for two weeks at INA or in the mentor’s organisation, during the autumn 2024
- An Accreditation to the next FIAT/IFTA World Conference, which will be organised in Romania in October 2024, which will offer you an overview of the latest trends in audiovisual archives and an opportunity to develop your network.
All expenses (flights, hotels, lunches) are 100% covered by the programme scholarship.
FRAME Mentoring is primarily addressed to professionals involved in a project ongoing or to be launched soon. The mentee’s project could deal with (non-exhaustive list):
- Design and implementation of an archiving workflow
- Collect of audiovisual archives
- Preservation of audiovisual archives physical carriers
- Digitisation plan
- Audiovisual and film restauration
- Digital archive management
- Management, notably of an audiovisual archives department
- Documentation
- Definition of data models and Management of audiovisual database
- IA applied to audiovisual archives
- Rights management
- Research and academic access and projects using audiovisual archives and data
- Educative access and projects using audiovisual archives
- Cultural access projects using audiovisual archives
- Editorialisation and audiovisual archives to produce information
- Production of audiovisual contents based on archives (film, documentary, digital and innovative contents)
- Post-disaster handling of collections
> For more information about FRAME Mentoring 2024 and to apply: https://www.ina.fr/actualites-ina/frame-mentoring-2024
> For more information about the 2024 FRAME training programme: https://www.ina.fr/actualites-ina/frame-0
Film restoration online theory course / distance learning: 2 May to 13 June 2024 (on Wednesdays)
Welcome meeting: 22 June 2024, Bologna
Il Cinema Ritrovato film festival and theory lectures: Bologna, 22-30 June 2024
Restoration practice classes: Bologna, L’Immagine Ritrovata, 1-12 July 2024
Cineteca di Bologna, L’Immagine Ritrovata, FIAF, and the Association des Cinémathèques Européennes (ACE) are thrilled to announce that the 10th FIAF Film Restoration Summer School will take place in Bologna during summer 2024.
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.
Please contact frss@immagineritrovata.it if you wish to receive further information and subscribe to our mailing list.
More information about the 2024 Summer School can be found on L'Immagine Ritrovata website:
https://www.immagineritrovata.it/summer-school/
Elena Tammaccaro (Coordinator) and Charlotte Oddo (Secretariat)
The Summer School Digital Archives is a 5-day, practice-oriented courseaimed at people working in audiovisual archives who are interested in enhancing their knowledge about digital environments and processes related to digital archives. The third edition focuses on the subject of coding in audiovisual archives. We will emphasize machine-assisted processes, offering beginner classes in how to use widely adopted open source tools to support archival tasks: including metadata extraction, transcoding, data enrichment and file maintenance.
Save the date! Complete programme and fee details coming soon.
FRAME Advanced Tech 2024 – Call for applications
The call for applications for the FRAME Advanced Tech training session is now open, until 22 September.
FRAME Advanced Tech is the 2nd training session of the 2024 edition of the FRAME training programme, executed by INA (French National Audiovisual Institute), with the support of FIAT/IFTA and EBU Academy, and co-funded by the Creative Europe MEDIA programme of the European Commission.
For the organization of FRAME Advanced Tech 2024, INA partnered with Rai (Radiotelevisione Italiana), which will host the training session in its Torino premises.
- For who?: All European and international professionals working in the audiovisual archives field, and aimed primarily at professionals already mastering fundamentals of audiovisual archiving, willing to update and deepen their knowledge
- Training programme: Audiovisual archiving technical and technological topics (access topics will be covered by the FRAME Advanced Access session next year)
- Location: Rai (Torino, Italy)
- Dates: 5 days, 2-6 December 2024
- Deadline to apply: 22 September
- For more information about FRAME Advanced Tech 2024 and to apply: https://www.ina.fr/actualites-ina/frame-advanced-tech-2024
- For more information on FRAME : https://www.ina.fr/actualites-ina/frame-0
- Contact : frame@ina.fr
In early March 2025, FIAF will join forces with the Cinémathèque française and the Fondation Jérôme Seydoux-Pathé once again to offer a short training course (in English and French) aimed at professionals in FIAF archives and beyond. The general theme of this specialized course is still "Programming Film Heritage", and will once again be taught by programming experts from the global network of FIAF archives and other distinguished professionals in a relevant field. This 10th edition of the Winter School will take place on-site only, at the Fondation Jérôme Seydoux-Pathé and at the Cinémathèque, on 3 and 4 March 2025, just before the Cinémathèque française festival (5-9 March 2025).
Speakers & Programme
The classes (a mixture of lectures, workshops and round-table discussions) will be taught by programming experts from the global network of FIAF archives, and other distinguished professionals in a relevant field. Note that presentations will be delivered in English or French, with simultaneous translation available throughout the course. FIAF's Programming and Access to Collections Commission will lead one of the sessions.
Registration & Fee
The registration fee will be 150€ for employees of FIAF-affiliated institutions and full-time students (student ID will be required), and 190€ for all others. Registrations will be accepted on a first-come-first-served basis, but a number of places will be reserved for employees of FIAF archives. Registrations will open in January 2025. Note that the course fee includes:
- Lunch on both days of the Winter School, and refreshments throughout the training,
- Free tickets to attend many of the screenings of the Cinémathèque française festival (formerly known as "Toute la mémoire du monde" - subject to availability). More details will be available nearer the time of the festival.
Participants are expected to make their own travel and accommodation arrangements.
