The ceremony for the 2019 SEAPAVAA Awards – comprising the Fellowship Award which started in 1997 and a new Best Archival Project in the Region Award – took place on 27th June 2019 in Noumea, New Caledonia, during the official opening of the 23rd SEAPAVAA Conference.
The Fellowship Award recognizes individuals for their lifetime achievement to the development of audiovisual archiving in South East Asia-Pacific while the Best Archival Project in the Region Award acknowledges innovative, influential, effective, and inspiring archival projects in the same region.
Fellowship Award
This year, SEAPAVAA honored Jamie Lean (New Zealand) and Adrian Wood (Japan) for their exceptional contributions to the audiovisual archiving field in the region. Both recipients were not able to be present on the day of conferment, and their respective representatives Mick Newnham and Joshua Harris, received a plaque each on their behalf from SEAPAVAA’s Founding President Dr. Ray Edmondson.
Jamie and Adrian join the SEAPAVAA Fellows Circle composed of the late Misbach Yusabiran (1997), Jim Lindner (2010), Hisashi Okajima (2010), Dr. Ray Edmondson (2010), Belina Capul (2014), Mary Del Pilar (2017), Ricky Orellana (2017), Tuenjai Sinthuvnik (2017), Bounchao Phichit (2018), Dome Sukvong (2018), and Mick Newnham (2018).
Read the conferment speeches of the newly conferred fellows in the following links:
Jamie Lean’s conferment speech
Adrian Wood’s conferment speech
Best Archival Project in the Region Award
This year, SEAPAVAA was proud to present the inaugural Best Archival Project in the Region Award to the Save Myanmar Film (SMF) for their grassroots initiative to restore Myanmar’s film heritage. The SMF was not able to attend the ceremony and their appointed representative Sanchai Chotirosseranee, received the award on their behalf.
SEAPAVAA would like to express its appreciation to AV Preservation by reto.ch for sponsoring this inaugural award.
Read the acceptance speech of Save Myanmar Film here.
Certificates of commendation were also awarded to these projects:
- Colourisation of archival footage for the documentary series Australia in Colour, submitted by Stranger than Fiction Films with the National Film and Sound Archives Australia;
- Modern Display: The Archive Preservation Project of Monthly Calendars’ artists in China;
- Media Archive Management System-based on AI.
Both projects were submitted by the Shanghai Media Group.