Panel: Film Preservation and Restoration - III Dominican Republic Global Film Festival - 2009

Panel - Film Preservation and Restoration
www.drglobalfilmfestival.org
Panelists: Luis Rafael (moderator) Dennis Doros Co-Fouder (Milestone Film & Video), Margot Benacerraf (directora, Araya), and Katie Trainor (Film Collections Manager, MoMA)
The film preservation, or film restoration, movement is an ongoing project among film historians, archivists, museums, and non-profit organizations to rescue decaying film stock and preserve the images which they contain. In the widest sense, preservation nowadays assures that a movie will continue to exist, as close to its original form as possible.

Know as an important educational, historical, and cultural resource, for many years the term preservation used to be a synonym of duplication only. The preservationists goal was to create a durable copy without significant loss of quality. Film preservation now holds the concepts of handling, duplication, storage, and access. The archivists job these days is to protect the film and at the same time share the content with the public.

Here a panel at Cinamatheque, uses Margot Benacerrafs 1959 film, Araya, as a centre piece for discussion on the ins and outs of Film Restoration and Preservation.

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Entertainment

Tags:

• film
• festival
• Dominican
• Republic
• directors
• producers
• restauration
• preservation
• Leonel
• Fernandez