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IMPORTANT COMMUNICATION: The worldwide health crisis caused by the corona virus covid-19 requires more and more governments to intervene strongly. Measures taken include cancelling events, encouraging people to stay at home and cutting out non-essential travel. Although the...

CALL FOR APPLICATIONS TEMPORARILY SUSPENDED FRAME Tech is a five day international training dedicated to the technical stakes of audiovisual archives’ management, organised by INA with the support of FIAT/IFTA and the European Broadcasting Union (EBU). It is part of the FRAME...

FIAT/IFTA’s Media Studies Commission is dedicated to fostering collaboration between research and archive communities and mediating the growth of scholarly expertise that adds value to audiovisual archives by means of innovative research. To this purpose, the Media Studies...

The FIAT/IFTA Regional Seminar 2020 will take place on Thursday 19th and Friday 20th March. After a very successful edition in 2016 in Rio de Janeiro where we brought together almost 150 television archivists, strategists, journalists and preservation pundits, the host city for...

‘Your town, your story’ was a project of the archives department of the Danish public broadcaster DR lead by Louise Broch. Back in 2018 this project received the FIAT/IFTA Award for ‘Excellence in Archival Use and Valorization’. Today, in the latest edition of the...

The Media Studies Grant was set up in 2014 by the FIAT/IFTA Media Studies Commission to enhance the collaboration between research and archive communities. Furthermore it tries to ensure the valorization of academic knowledge for archival practice as well as to promote research...

For the first time in more than 25 years the FIAT/IFTA Executive Council and the IASA Board have decided to join forces and organize a joint conference with an integrated programme. The 51st IASA Conference will also be the 44th FIAT/IFTA World Conference. Together with our host...

The 2019 FIAT/IFTA World Conference in Dubrovnik featured no less than 97 speakers of more than 30 countries. Workshops, keynotes, plenaries, breakout sessions, … thanks to the speakers who were so kind to hand over our send us their presentations, we are proud to say that...

The audiovisual heritage landscape in Latin America is in full evolution. Closely connected with many of the regional key players, FIAT/IFTA supports initiatives that contribute to the preservation and improved access  to Latin American television archives. An important Latin...

The FIAT/IFTA Archive Achievement Awards are designed to honor outstanding archival initiatives and projects that have improved significantly the ways in which the archives are preserved, managed and used. At the FIAT/IFTA World Conference 2019 in Dubrovnik thi...