SEAPAVAA Newsletter
Jan-Sept 1999

Editorial: Copyright in the AV industry

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The 4th SEAPAVAA General Assembly elected a new set of council members to serve in the executive council for the next three years. The Executive Council is the executive and management body of SEAPAVAA and comprises seven councilors: the three officers - president, secretary-general, treasurer - and four ordinary councilors, all elected by the members.

Under the SEAPAVAA constitution, the executive council serves for three years. At the general assembly meeting during the Kuala Lumpur Conference, the first SEAPAVAA council retired after serving from 1996 to 1999 and a new set was elected. Of the outgoing council members, three were reelected namely: Ray Edmondson as president, Belina SB. Capul as secretary-general, and Tuenjai Sinthuvnik as treasurer. The other four newly-elect councilors are:

Dato' Habibah Zon Yahaya, director-general of Arkib Negara (National Archives of Malaysia), is currently the chair of the 'Memory of the World' regional committee for Asia/Pacific (MoWCAP) and also serves as vice-chair of the program's peak body, the 14-member International Advisory Committee (MoWIAC) which comprises specialists from all parts of the globe.

Julian Millar, the film and video collection manager of the New Zealand Film Archive, joined the archive in 1988 as film handler and accessioner. He took up the position of collection manager in 1993, responsible for the care and storage of the film and video collections of the Archives. He also assembles the Archive's screening programs and maintains its computer network. As a qualified projectionist, he assists with the screenings when required. Julian is married to Wilma and they have two sons and one daughter.

Chantima Choeysanguar is the Director of the Audiovisual Aids Production Centre of the Government Public Relations Department of Thailand. She has worked as government media official in the Government Public Relations Department for 30 years and has also served as resource person for several projects in television, production, public relations, and audiovisual archiving.

Annella Mendoza is a freelance audiovisual archivist and presently the chair of the SEAPAVAA Collections Committee. She worked as an archivist in the University of the Philippines (UP) Film Center for 18 years. From 1995 to 1998, Annella lived in Jakarta, Indonesia where she worked as advisor for audiovisual collections at the PT Multivision Plus and as production support at the Indosiar Visual Mandiri. She earned her Masters in Library Science Degree from UP in 1990 and was a UNESCO fellow in Film Archives. Annella has participated in various workshops in archiving and conservation and has served as resource person for several audiovisual archiving projects.