Association des Cinémathèques Européennes
The Association des Cinémathèques Européennes (ACE) is the European cinematheque association based in Brussels . It brings together 42 regional and national film archives in Europe that are members of the international association Fédération Internationale des Archives du Film . Membership in the ACE is linked to membership in the FIFG.
The association was founded in 1991 under the name Association des Cinémathèques de la Communauté Européenne (ACCE) . It was financed by the forerunner of the European Union , the European Economic Community with the help of the Media 1 program . At the same time, the LUMIERE project started a program to restore and search for lost European films, which ended again in 1996.
As part of the subsequent Media II program, the decision of the previously involved film archives resulted in a slight realignment of the ACCE beyond the borders of the European Community at that time to geographic Europe, which was associated with the renaming to the current name.
The declared aim of the ACE is to preserve the European film heritage and to ensure that it is also available to future generations. More concretely, this means that the ACE is committed to representing the interests of European film by influencing the public interest and decision-makers and collecting funds for securing the cinematic media. It is also committed to improving the economic and legal conditions of the European film archives and coordinates efforts to preserve, restore and digitize the films in the archives. Last but not least, ACE would like to encourage technology and science to research in this field and to develop new or further processes.
The president from 2004 to 2012 was Claudia Dillmann , the director of the German Film Institute in Frankfurt am Main ; the new president since July 2012 is Nicola Mazzanti, director of the Cinémathèque royale de Belgique, Brussels.
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- ↑ Claudia Dillmann elected . In: Frankfurter Rundschau . July 16, 2004, p. 19 .