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Participants and organizers of the ASEAN Seminar on Film and Video Archive Management
held at the Australia National Film and Sound Archive on 3 May-3 June 1996.
LAUNCHING OF SEAPAVAA TO BE HELD
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Participants and organizers of the ASEAN Seminar on Film and Video Archive Management
held at the Australia National Film and Sound Archive on 3 May-3 June 1996.
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The Philippines will host the First Conference of AV Archive Institutions in the Southeast Asia-Pacific Region at the Manila Galleria Suites, Pasig City from Feb. 19 to 24, 1996. The Southeast Asia-Pacific Audio-Visual Archives Association (SEAPAVAA) will be launched during the conference and hold its First General Meeting.
At least 50 foreign and local Audio-Visual Archivists from the ASEAN countries, Laos, Australia, New Zealand, Germany, and representatives from other archiving associations in Europe are expected to attend the conference.
The five-day activity will feature symposia and film screenings. Resource persons from various archives in the Asia-Pacific region, specifically from the Philippines, Australia, Singapore, Germany and India are invited to handle the symposia on the theme "Film/Video Archiving for the Tropics". Confirmed speakers include Mr. Ray Edmondson, Deputy Director of the National Film and Sound Archive of Australia, Mr. Harald Brandes, Chief, Technical Section of Bundesarchiv-Film Archive Koblenz of Germany, P.K. Nair, Ex-Director of National Film Archive of India, and Mr. Guy Pethenbridge, National Director, Advanced Media Techniques, Australian Archives.
There will also be screenings of restored/significant feature films from Australia, Thailand, Indonesia, and the Philippines at the Robinsons Galleria Theater, as well as an exhibit on film archiving.
The conference seeks to provide a regional forum for addressing common issues and concerns related to the collection and preservation of, and provision of access to the audiovisual heritage of member countries.
For more information and details of the conference, please contact the Chairman of the Organizing Committee -- Ms. Belina SB. Capul, Staff Director, Motion Picture Division/President, SOFIA at the Philippine Information Agency, Tel. Nos.: 920-4395, 921-7941 loc. 4112, 4122, 4262; Fax No.: 920-4347.
