LYON, France — Germany’s film heritage sector is celebrating a new federal and state-funded initiative launching in January that will provide €10 million ($11.15 million) a year towards the …
LYON, France — Germany’s film heritage sector is celebrating a new federal and state-funded initiative launching in January that will provide €10 million a year towards the digitization and preservation of feature films., outlined the plan at a panel discussion at the Lumière Festival’s International Classic Film Market in Lyon, France, as part of this year’s focus on Germany and the country’s heritage sector.
The new digitization support is limited to €40,000 per film. The FFA had previously offered digitization support of €15,000 per film and, since 2016, just €2 million a year in total for digitization and preservation. Rother said all of the €10 million would be spent in the first year, with heritage film institutions, festivals and preservation efforts accounting for about €6 million .in Berlin is expected to digitize and preserve around 25 feature-length films and 25 shorts, Rother noted, adding that the Deutsches Filminstitut & Filmmuseum in Frankfurt and the Friedrich Wilhelm Murnau Foundation in Wiesbaden would achieve similar numbers.
Brunel noted that the Wenders Foundation had recently restored the director’s 1994 drama “Lisbon Story” and had previously restored 17 films, including “Wings of Desire” and “The American Friend,” in 4K thanks to a special partnership with German pubcaster ZDF, which had licensed many films from the foundation to commemorate the filmmaker’s 70th birthday in 2015 with a TV retrospective on ZDF, Arte and 3Sat.
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