The FIAT/IFTA Archive Achievement Awards are not only about documentaries or web platforms that featuring archival materials, but also to highlight excellent projects in the domains of media management and media preservation.

The 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. Any initiative that brings the professional preservation and management of audiovisual archives to a higher level, any project that valorizes the use of archive in an outstanding way, is eligible to enter.

The Call for Nominations for the 2020 FIAT/IFTA Archives Achievement Awards is now open and available on the Awards pages. Since the 2020 Joint IASA – FIAT/IFTA Conference will take place online, also the Awards Show will be a virtual one. Exceptionally also the submissions of institutional, non-commercial members of IASA (International Association of Sound and Audiovisual Archives) will be accepted.

The new deadline to submit your proposal is 16 August 2020.