The National Archives (UK) who maintains Digital Record Object Identification (DROID) User is running a survey for its improvement. As DROID is a key file format identification tool used in AV archives, please answer their survey which may be accessed here: https://www.smartsurvey.co.uk/s/droid-user-survey/

To know more about DROID: https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/information-management/manage-information/policy-process/digital-continuity/file-profiling-tool-droid/

27^th  SEAPAVAA CONFERENCE

8 – 13 May 2023
Pattaya, Thailand
Local Host Institution: Thai Film Archive (Public Organization)

 

Theme: Sustainable AV Archives For The Community

 

The 27^th SEAPAVAA Conference will take place in Pattaya, Thailand, from 8 – 13 May 2023 under the umbrella theme “Sustainable AV Archives For The Community”. It is SEAPAVAA’s first in-person event since 2020 following the outbreak of the Covid-19 pandemic. We are anticipating a highly participative and engaging conference for 2023, as colleagues from the audiovisual archiving community reconnect with and learn from one another face-to-face in the “Land of Smiles”.

As part of the conference, a two-day symposium will be held on 10 and 11 May 2023. The symposium will offer an opportunity to discuss a broad spectrum of topics that interest a wide range of attendees.  It will also provide a platform to stimulate new conversations for our field.

We are inviting proposals that explore but are not limited to the following:

• Collection development of audiovisual collections for more diverse and wider representation of minority groups
• Advancements in technologies that enable greater access to audiovisual collections
• Copyright content management of audiovisual collections to enable ease of access
• Community, participatory, and activist archiving involving audiovisual collections
• Audiovisual collections for reminiscence work to reach out to ageing populations
• Audiovisual collections for archival research on climate change
• Understanding climate change within the audiovisual archiving context
• Indigenous perspectives to preserve audiovisual collections that reduce impact on the environment
• Assessment tools to help audiovisual archives measure and benchmark the impact of archiving activities on the environment and the solutions for mitigating environmental impact
• Education and training to develop green archivists for the audiovisual archiving field
• Innovative collaborations with other collecting memory institutions and allied professions
• Other thematically related proposals are welcome for consideration.

 

1.) Email your proposal in English as an MS Word file by 20 March 2023 to: secretariat@seapavaa.net.

2.) The proposal should include:

• Title of proposal
• Abstract, max of 250 words
• Name, Institution, and Bio (max of 250 words) of proponent(s)
• Name, Institution, and Bio (max of 250 words) of presenter(s) if proponent(s) is/are not also the presenter(s)

3.) The Organisers will review all submitted proposals. Notifications of acceptance of proposals will be issued by 31 March 2023.

4.) Accepted proponents must confirm their ability to attend and present in-person in Pattaya OR via Zoom by 10 April 2023.

IN-PERSON:

The presentation materials are to be submitted to secretariat@seapavaa.net by 2 May 2023. The travel expenses, accommodation, and subsistence of attending are the full responsibility of the Presenters.

VIA ZOOM:

The pre-recorded presentations are to be submitted secretariat@seapavaa.net by 2 May 2023. The Presenters are to join the Q&A segments.

5.) Registration fees of all confirmed Presenters will be waived.

6.) KEY DATES TO TAKE NOTE:

Deadline of submission of proposals	20 March 2023
Notification of acceptance of proposals	31 March 2023
Deadline of confirmation to present in-person OR via Zoom	10 April 2023
Submission of presentation materias	2 May 2023
Symposium	10 & 11 May 2023

 

Please email secretariat@seapavaa.net (Genelyn Galang / Kamille Olaño) if you have any queries.

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The 27^th SEAPAVAA Conference is hosted by the Thai Film Archive (Public Organization). The conference promises the definitive warmth and hospitality that SEAPAVAA is known for. For more information regarding registration details, programme, workshops, and hotel accommodation, please visit SEAPAVAA’s conference website.

UNESCO Bangkok is organising the experts meeting on Documentary Heritage at Risk in Asia and the Pacific scheduled between 28 February – 2 March 2023 in Bangkok, Thailand. The event aims to form guidelines on disaster risk management for the archives in the Asia-Pacific region. Sanchai Chotirosseranee, SEAPAVAA’s Secretary-General, will represent SEAPAVAA in this meeting. The SEAPAVAA Secretariat will share the guidelines once it is available.

The International (FIAF) Congress 2023 symposium on “Women, Cinema, and Film Archives”, seeks to celebrate the legacy of women in the film archive’s history and their role in developing its future. As part of its activities, the symposium will recognise those who have been at the forefront of archival practice worldwide, sharing their stories, and highlighting their achievements and inheritance.

FIAF is calling for submissions for short biographies of female colleagues who have contributed to the preservation of film heritage through their stories in the course of film archives for the 2023 FIAF Congress.

If interested, kindly send an email to simposium2023@filmoteca.unam.mx with the following:

• brief 200 word professional biography that highlights their contributions and the challenges they faced
• three high-resolution portrait images with credits (preferably those that capture them in the exercise of their practices)

FIAF will print and publish the biographies on the 2023 Congress website. Deadline of submission is on 17 February 2023.

SEAPAVAA’s 27^th Conference and General Assembly will be held on 8 – 13 May 2023 at Mahatai Pattaya Convention Center in Pattaya, Thailand. The local host institution is Thai Film Archive (Public Organization). For the tentative schedule, hotel recommendations, and transportation details of the conference, kindly visit SEAPAVAA’s Conference Website at seapavaaconference.com.

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Belina SB Capul (1953 – 2023)

Belina Capul (seated middle) at SEAPAVAA’s 1^st Conference in Manila, Philippines

19 February 1996

SEAPAVAA is deeply saddened at the passing of Belina San Buenaventura Capul on 12 January 2023, at the age of 70, due to health complications.

Bel, as she was affectionately called, was SEAPAVAA’s founding Secretary-General (1996 – 2002) and President (2002 – 2008). She contributed hugely to the foundation and development of SEAPAVAA. She continued to attend and support SEAPAVAA activities, even as recently as September 2022.

We extend our deepest condolences to Bel’s family and to all who knew her. She will be missed and always remembered.

Funeral services are held at St. Peter Memorial Chapel in Commonwealth, Tandang Sora (near Robinson’s), Quezon City, Manila, Philippines till 16 January 2023. Cremation will be on 17 January 2023 at 4:00 PM (PHT).

The International Association of Sound and Audiovisual Archives (IASA) is pleased to announce that the IASA and the International Council for Traditional Music (ICTM) will hold a joint conference from 11 – 15 September 2023. The venue will be the University of Istanbul, Turkey. Online attendance via videoconferencing will also be offered for those unable to attend in person. This joint event will comprise both the 2023 IASA Annual Conference and an ICTM Forum. It will be a wonderful opportunity for collaboration between the organizations and their many shared interests. The call for proposals will be announced in January 2023.

Greetings from the SEAPAVAA Executive Council (EC)!

After two years of online conferences and General Assemblies, we are happy to announce that the 27^th SEAPAVAA Conference and General Assembly (GA) will be held physically from 8^th – 13^th May 2023 in Pattaya, Thailand.

This conference and GA will be hosted by the Film Archive (Public Organization). Specific details of the conference (e.g., call for papers, schedule, registration, etc.) will be shared in the coming months via www.seapavaaconference.com.

The election for SEAPAVAA’s new Executive Council (2023 – 2026) will also take place during the 27^th GA.

We look forward to seeing SEAPAVAA members and many more colleagues in 2023.

Happy holidays!

SEAPAVAA Executive Council (2020 – 2023)

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*photo courtesy of Freedom Film Network

 

The Best Archival Project in the Region Award of SEAPAVAA strives to recognise projects or initiatives that have shown exceptional and significant contributions to the audiovisual archiving field in the Southeast Asia-Pacific region.

This year, SEAPAVAA is proud to present the 2022 Best Archival Project in the Region Award to the Freedom Film Network for their project titled, “Social Films for Social Change: Social Film Archive”.

Freedom Film Network’s Social Film Archive (Arkib Filem Rakyat) is an archive of films and raw footage related to activism and social movements in Malaysia. The archive was initiated in 2020 and remains to be the only archive of human rights footage in Malaysia. The Social Film Archive’s objective is to provide an alternative perspective of people’s history, identity, and nation-building. The archive’s online catalogue will be made available to the public starting March 2023. You may find more information about the Social Film Archive at ArkibFilemRakyat.org.

SEAPAVAA would also like to express its appreciation to AV Preservation by reto.ch for sponsoring the 2022 Award.

SEAPAVAA is proud to announce that the anthology, Keeping Memories: Cinema and Archiving in Asia-Pacific, edited by Nick Deocampo, is now available for purchase. This book is co-published by the Ateneo de Manila University (ADMU) Press and Southeast Asia-Pacific Audiovisual Archive Association (SEAPAVAA), in cooperation with Film Development Council of the Philippines (FDCP) and Vietnam Film Institute (VFI).

You may purchase a copy of the book through the following:

ADMU Website: bit.ly/KM-web
Shopee: bit.ly/KM-s
Lazada: bit.ly/KM-lzd

ABOUT THE BOOK

Keeping Memories: Cinema and Archiving in the Asia-Pacific edited by Nick Deocampo brings together film scholars, archivists, film artists, academics, media practitioners, historians, and cultural advocates to share their thoughts that touch the heart of our Asian film heritage. In four themes, the sections in this anthology deal with topics such as Archives and Memory, Archives and National Identity, Archives and the Asia-Pacific, and Archives and Cinema History.

The book covers topics as varied as personal meanderings in the region and archival encounters, lacunae in film deposits, archival ambiguities, cinematic imaginaries of nation, pandemic media, digital archive, and “lost” film histories. Contributors in the anthology include Stephen Bottomore, Karen Chan, Bede Cheng, Nick Deocampo, Wimal Dissanayake, Shivendra Singh Dungarpur, Aaron Gerow, David Hanan, Joshua Harris, Dina Iordanova, Bliss Cua Lim, Gina Marchetti, Charles Musser, Mick Newnham, Benedic ‘Bono’ Salazar Olgado, Nguyen Minh Phuong, Joie Springer, Akira Tochigi, and Nadi Tofighian. With preface by Ray Edmondson.

ABOUT THE EDITOR

NICK DEOCAMPO is a filmmaker and film historian. An associate professor at the UP Film Institute in the University of the Philippines, he took up his masters of arts degree in Cinema Studies at New York University as a Fulbright scholar and received his Certificate in Film in Paris, France. An advocate of film archiving, he has written books and articles on the subject, such as Lost Films of Asia, Films from a “Lost” Cinema, Historiography of a “Lost” Cinema, and Envisioning a Rhizomatic Audio-Visual Archiving for the Future. He is a four-time recipient of the Philippine National Book Award, and his publications cover subjects from film history to film literacy. He was formerly chair of the UNESCO Philippines Memory of the World Committee.