FIAT/IFTA WORLD CONFERENCE
6-9 OCTOBER
HOSTED BY
SUPPORTED BY
São Paulo, Brazil – Cinemateca Brasileira – October 6-9, 2026
Screen Memories in Dialogue: Learning from Diversity
Memórias Audiovisuais em Diálogo: Aprendendo com a Diversidade
Media archives operate today in an environment shaped by constant transformation. Technological change, evolving media ecosystems, shifting institutional frameworks and growing social expectations challenge how audiovisual memory is preserved, managed, accessed and understood. In this context, archives are not only repositories of content, but active spaces where knowledge, practices and perspectives meet.
Under the theme Screen Memories in Dialogue: Learning from Diversity, the FIAT/IFTA World Conference invites professionals, researchers and practitioners to reflect on media archives as spaces of exchange, collaboration and mutual learning. Dialogue is understood here as a working principle: between institutions and communities, between regions, between professional cultures, and between past experiences and future challenges.
Learning from diversity means recognising that valuable knowledge emerges from different contexts, scales and traditions of practice. Across the FIAT/IFTA community, archives operate under highly diverse institutional, technological and cultural conditions. These differences are not obstacles to be overcome, but sources of insight that can enrich global archival thinking, inspire adaptation and foster more resilient and inclusive practices.
The conference seeks to create a shared space where experiences from broadcasters, film archives, sound archives, community initiatives, research environments and hybrid institutions can be discussed on equal terms. By bringing together perspectives from Ibero-America and beyond, the conference encourages contributions that highlight situated practices, regional innovations and collaborative approaches, while engaging with broader questions relevant to the international audiovisual archival field.
CONFERENCE THEMES
AUDIOVISUAL MEMORIES
AS SPACES OF DIALOGUE
PRESERVING MEDIA HERITAGE: PRACTICES AND REGIONAL PERSPECTIVES
USING AUDIOVISUAL MEMORIES: ACCESS, REUSE, AND RESPONSIBILITY
TECHNOLOGICAL FUTURES OF MEDIA ARCHIVES
POWER, REPRESENTATION, AND VOICES IN AUDIOVISUAL MEMORY
SPONSORS
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STRATEGIC SPONSORS
BNDES
The Brazilian Development Bank (BNDES) is a federal public bank that finances investment projects aimed at promoting Brazil’s economic, social, and sustainable development, supporting businesses, infrastructure, innovation, and high-impact initiatives that contribute to job and income generation.
GOLD SPONSORS
Amazon Web Services
AWS for Media and Entertainment (M&E) provides the most purpose-built capabilities of any cloud—including dedicated services, solutions, and partner offerings specifically for media and entertainment use cases—to help customers tap into cloud expertise and innovation across six M&E solution areas: Content Production; Media Supply Chain & Archive; Broadcast & Live Production; Direct-to-Consumer & Streaming; Data Science & Analytics, and Monetization. With the largest community of industry partners, AWS for M&E makes it easier for industry customers to select the right tools and partners for their highest-priority workloads, accelerate production launches, see faster time to value, and create new paradigms for audience experiences.
Many M&E organizations have decades of content and footage stored in a vault or on a collection of hard drives, with little to no ability to search their content libraries due to missing metadata. Understanding what resides in their libraries would enable these companies to utilize existing content as a means to cost-effectively create new content for their audiences. They need a solution to both migrate existing content that is stored on premises to a modern repository, as well as apply metadata (in some cases retroactively) to identify content that can be re-purposed and monetized. Customers can accelerate migration of on-premises archives to the cloud to better manage and monetize legacy content. They can use AWS Media Intelligence Workflows to analyze video, images, and/or audio to generate valuable metadata upon content migration, and reduce media storage costs while improving search function and monetization.
Piql
Digital Preservation for the Future
PIQL guarantees the preservation of humanity’s digital legacy and the world’s heritage for future generations through a unique approach. We ensure that knowledge remains authentic, accessible, and never forgotten.
FASTFORWARD
Introducing a new era in film and audio preservation
FASTFORWARD presents a breakthrough in audiovisual preservation: The HERO. A solution that digitizes image and sound in one seamless, high-speed process. Developed with leading broadcasters including DR, SVT, BBC and RTÉ, The HERO redefines how archives can protect and provide access to film heritage.
We empower institutions to preserve cultural memory and make it accessible and usable for future generations. Our Digitization‑as‑a‑Service (DaaS) model, together with a fully integrated end‑to‑end solution, delivers efficiency and scale while minimizing up‑front investment and keeping project control with our partners.
We reimagined film digitization from the ground up – prioritizing accessibility, quality and performance. A custom-made 4K optical system captures every detail while our scanner records image and sound in perfect sync. Delivering the best possible copy: frames are preserved at the highest practical resolution and can be exported in 16‑bit files, broadcast‑ready.
Intuitive software, live project data and automated workflows let teams work faster and more efficiently – often achieving an up to 10x higher productivity improvement. For example, at BBC Wales a small team digitized over 30,000 reels in under two years using two FASTFORWARD solutions.
At FASTFORWARD, we strongly believe in USE=VALUE. Our projects consistently increase use and reuse of archival content, proving that digitization not only preserves heritage but also fuels creativity and new storytelling.
SILVER
SPONSORS
MWA Nova
Established for years and built on an almost 100-years heritage on German engineering ingenuity, MWA Nova is a passionate leading manufacturer of versatile film and audio scanning equipment and a unique and solid partner to film and broadcast archives and also postproduction companies world-wide.
Experience, quality and innovation are the three main characteristics of their systems for audio and film post production and archive applications.
MWA Nova currently offers more specialist solutions for the actual physical transfer and replay of celluloid, nitrate and magnetic film for archival purposes than any other single manufacturer.
Based on our small gauge film scanner flahscan NOVA, we have developed a special configuration for broadcast archives that can digitize 16mm images and SEPMAG material cost-effectively and with newest technology.
Equipped with a 4k sensor, the flashscan NOVA together with the new sound follower NOVA T can digitize mostly 16mm film into all common broadcast formats.
SDVI
SDVI is an Emmy® Award-winning supplier of cloud-based media supply chain technology that empowers organizations to optimize content ingest, processing, packaging, and distribution operations. The company’s Rally media supply chain platform helps organizations create a scalable and responsive infrastructure that provides true business agility, operational efficiency, and process intelligence. www.sdvi.com
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