Take a chance of becoming a winner of the 2017 FIAT/IFTA Awards – deadline EXTENDED
Dear FIAT/IFTA members,
Dear colleagues and friends,
On behalf of the FIAT/IFTA Awards Jury let me hereby remind you, archivists, producers, filmmakers, video artists, broadcasters and industry representatives to submit your archive-based projects for this year’s FIAT/IFTA Archive Achievement Awards.
The nomination forms and more information can be found here.
Please note that the deadline has been extended to Friday May 5th 2017.
The three categories are:
1. Best Use of Archive:
The Award for the Best Use of Archive is given to an exceptional audiovisual production that uses archive footage in an outstanding manner which moves, surprises, entertains or educates a demanding audience.
2. Most Innovative Use of Archive:
The Award for the Most Innovative Use of Archive is given to an exceptional project that pushes the boundaries in using audiovisual archive in the fields of design, user-experience, funding and production.
3. Best Archive Preservation Project:
The Award for the Best Archive Preservation Project is given to a project that will inspire the audiovisual archiving community as an outstanding example of preserving archive footage.
The 3 winners will be honored with the prestigious FIAT/IFTA Cube at the Awards Ceremony during the 2017 FIAT/IFTA World Conference in Mexico and will win a free registration to the 2018 FIAT/IFTA World Conference.
Please spread the word to interested parties in your organization and to other FIAT/IFTA members in your country and encourage them to take part.
The FIAT/IFTA Awards Jury is waiting for all nominations of your outstanding archive projects.
Best of luck with your submissions!
Yours sincerely,
Ruth Stifter-Trummer
On behalf of the FIAT/IFTA Awards Jury