NYC friends 🙂 Tomorrow, September 22nd do not miss the NY THEATRICAL PREMIERE of beloved classic TOMKA AND HIS FRIENDS. Xhanfise Keko is the only female director in the history of communist Albanian cinema, establishing herself as one of the top directors in Albania’s male-dominated film industry. This restoration is the first chance to look at moving images from a society that was closed off from the rest of the world for decades.
*The Alamo Drafthouse will donate 50% of ticket sales to the ongoing preservation work of ACP. ** To learn more about this restoration and the work of ACP: http://www.thealbaniancinemaproject.org/tomka-dhe-shokeumlt-e-tij.html

Albania sends Chromium to the Oscars

Aktorja Klodjana Keco terhoqi cmimin te cilin e vleresoi si nje ogur te mire per konkurimin e ketij filmi ne Oscar

Gjate prezantimit te filmit KROM ne Otranto Film Fund Festival, aktorja Klodiana Keco dhe Kryetari i QKK Ilir Butka

Otranto Film Fund Festival | nella sala Triangolare del Castello aragonese di Otranto la firma per la creazione di un Network dell’Audiovisivo dell’Adriatico. Albania, Grecia e Croazia si uniscono all’ Apulia Film Commission che diventa faro per la produzione e la diffusione delle produzioni nell’Adriatico, nell’ambito del progetto di cooperazione IPA AdriaWealth. #Offf2016

Albania, Grecia, Croazia ed Italia. Nasce ad Otranto l’intesa per la promozione e la diffusione delle produzioni audiovisive nella regione adriatico/ionica. Nasce grazie ad Otranto Film Fund Festival 2016 che ha fatto incontrare i centri audiovisivi e cinematografici dei Paesi coinvolti con l’ Apulia Film Commission considerata un esempio da seguire, un faro che guiderà alla nuova strada comune. La firma del protocollo d’intesa è l’ultimo atto del progetto di cooperazione IPA AdriaWealth e porterà alla creazione di un Network dell’Audiovisivo dell’Adriatico.

Friends and film lovers everywhere:) Please take few minutes and consider for yourselves why the work of The Albanian Cinema Project it’s so important worldwide. Help us raise the funds needed to bring a film scanner to Albania for our fantastic Archives in Motion Workshops this October. Only a month left to meet our goals and you can join us as so many key organisations like International Federation of Film Archives (FIAF), Martin Scorsese’s Film Foundation, NYU Cinema Studies / Orphan Film Symposium, etc. have done! And, here’s actress Eliza Dushku with her brother Nate, sharing their experience in the land of the eagles @elizadushku #DearAlbaniahttp://www.thealbaniancinemaproject.org/archives-in-motion.…

Building on our successful foundation and proven track record in Albania, ACP is launching regional training workshops in the Western Balkans for archives professionals. These archivists are working against the odds to preserve an endangered cinematic heritage that has been far too little seen beyond the region’s borders. ACP will organize and host  a 2-week intensive preservation institute at the Albanian National Film Archives (AQSHF)  and the Marubi Academy of Film and Multimedia in Tirana, Albania from October 17-28, 2016. This will be the first in a series of ongoing workshops in the region. AIM will be organized under the auspices of ACP and their partners in Albania and the Western Balkan Region. AIM is a capacity building project to promote and carry out film and video preservation and digitization and to facilitate access to the archival and contemporary cinema of the Western Balkans in situ.

The AIM Workshops will feature intermediate and advanced courses with a focus on practical training in current audiovisual preservation and restoration techniques and archival practices conducted by leading archivists and restorers from preeminent international institutions: the Magyar Filmlabor (Hungarian Film Lab), A/V Geeks (North Carolina, USA), AV Preservation (Switzerland), The George Eastman Museum (GEM, Rochester, NY, USA), NYU MIAP (NY, USA), The Imperial War Museum (IWM, London,UK), the San Francisco Media Archive, the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum (USHMM, Washington, DC), Indiana University Libraries (Bloomington, IN, USA), and the Wende Museum (Los Angeles, CA).

AIM is designed to bring equipment and professional expertise in film and video preservation and digitization to countries with a rich audiovisual heritage, but where, due to decades of infrastructural challenges, access to the tools for ongoing preservation and restoration have been limited. We are committed to fostering collaboration and increasing preservation initiatives by bringing the latest technologies to the region, along with the necessary training for the archives and archivists, so they can begin to provide digital access to their own materials. Help us achieve these goals by contributing to our crowdfunding campaign for a scanner today! 

http://www.thealbaniancinemaproject.org/archives-in-motion.html

CONFERENCE “ANICA INCONTRA … FOCUS BALCANI” 

L’ obiettivo della conferenza è promuovere il co-firmato o dei fondi di sviluppo in corso con Mibact e presentare il sistema di incentivi messo in atto da ciascun paese balcanico per il cinema e per il co-produzione internazionale.

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On the ocassion of the 73rd Venice Int Film Festival, ANICA, the National Association representing Italian film and audiovisual industry organizes in partnership with MiBACT (Italian Ministry for Heritage and Activities, Culture and Tourism)

CONFERENCE “ANICA INCONTRA … FOCUS BALCANI” 

(Albania, Bosnia, Croazia, Macedonia, Serbia, Slovenia)

The conference will be held on September 5th 2016 in Venice Lido, Hotel Excelsior, Italian Pavilion, Sala Tropicana (ground floor) from 11.00 to 13.00 a.m.

The aim of the conference is to promote the co-development funds signed or in progress with MIBACT and to present the system of incentives put in place by each Balkan Country for Cinema and for the international co-production.