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Published by the South EastAsia-Pacific Audio Visual Archive Association (SEAPAVAA) PIA Bldg., Visayas Avenue, Diliman, Quezon City, Philippines Telefax No. (632) 920-4395 Advisory Board Dave M. Gomez Ray Edmondson Editorial Consultant Josefina S. Patron Editor-in-Chief Belina SB. Capul Managing Editor Minerva Yonzon-Quemuel Lay-out Artist Arnel F. Orea Composers Evelyn V. Baldemor Virginia P. Orea Contributors Australia David Hanan Monash University Mick Newnham Karina Palmer ScreenSound Australia Faye Shortal Cinemedia Access Collection Hongkong Sam Ho Yam Yin Lan HongKong Film Archive Malaysia Nor Zahriah Md. Razally National Archives of Malaysia Philippines Vicky D. Belarmino Cultural Center of the Philippines Prof. Clodualdo del Mundo Annella Mendoza Society of Film Archivist (SOFIA) Ricky Orellana MOWELFUND Film Institute Mary del Pilar ABS-CBN Archives Vietnam Dr. Mme. Hoang Nhu Yen Dr. Ngo Hieu Chi Vietnam Film Institute Web Version Ver M. Gaje |
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As this issue goes to press we will have just completed the midyear executive council meeting and locked in the planning for this year’s conference in July in Bangkok. We are looking forward to the involvement of many Thai colleagues as well as delegates from across the region and the globe. Again, our location and our theme will be strategic and we will be seeing at firsthand how the archiving scene is unfolding in Thailand. As we look outwards from our region it is good to see others looking in at us and our history. It was a privilege to represent SEAPAVAA at two recent events which illustrate this. In December, I was one of four international speakers at a symposium hosted by the National Film Center, Museum of Modern Art in Tokyo. The event offered a future scan of moving image archiving generally, and I was asked to give an account of SEAPAVAA’s birth and growth to an audience which included the leaders of Japan’s embryonic network of provincial audiovisual archives. Then, in January, Secretary-General Bel Capul and I attended the event to commemorate the opening of the Hong Kong Film Archive’s new building. We participated in a symposium featuring the leaders of several Asian archives, and offered our respective views of the region and where archiving is heading. One caught a sense of the energy that is beginning to well up across Asia, and to catch both the optimism and sense of urgency that goes with it. (It’s hard to not to envy our Hong Kong colleagues -- the building is a real showpiece, opened in colorful style by actor Chow Yun-Fat, a great patron of the Archive.) Along with its Bangkok council meeting, SEAPAVAA hosted a UNESCO workshop in Bangkok -- a group of specialists revising the international guidelines for the Memory of the World program (of which more elsewhere in this issue). It’s a natural linkage -- but incidentally illustrates how the Association’s connections have grown in all directions. May it continue to be so!
Ray Edmondson |
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