Scorsese Expanding World Cinema Foundation
June 11th 2009 12:00
Director's foundation focuses on restoring the world's endangered films
Martin Scorcese
U.S. movie director Martin Scorsese has signed deals to expand his World Cinema Foundation.
Scorsese, whose group also signed a DVD distribution deal with the Criterion Collection, said the Auteurs Web site will now feature a foundation area while B-Side distributes World Cinema films worldwide.
The director's foundation focuses on restoring the world's endangered films, a mission Scorsese says is never easy.In his address to cinema lovers on the foundations homepage Scorcese introduces everyone to the aims of the foundation.
“The World Cinema Foundation is a natural expansion of my love for movies. Seventeen years ago, together with my fellow filmmakers, we created The Film Foundation to help preserve American cinema. Much has been accomplished and much work remains to be done, but The Film Foundation has created a base upon which we can build. There is now, I believe, a film preservation consciousness.
The World Cinema Foundation is being created to help developing countries preserve their cinematic treasures. We want to help strengthen and support the work of international archives, and provide a resource for those countries lacking the archival and technical facilities to do the work themselves.
I am honored to be joined on the Advisory Board of by Fatih Akin, Soulemane Cissé, Guillermo Del Toro, Stephen Frears, Alejandro Gonzales Inarritu, Abbas Kiarostami, Deepa Mehta, Ermanno Olmi, Raoul Peck, Cristi Puiu, Walter Salles, Abderrahmane Sissako, Elia Suleiman, Bertrand Tavernier, Wim Wenders, Wong Kar Wai, Tian Zhuangzhuang and other filmmakers who share the common goal.”
"Film preservation is always an uphill battle, and no matter how smoothly things go in the restoration process, there's never enough time," the director said.
www.worldcinemafoundation.net
source:
World Cinema Foundation
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