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12-584: Founded in 2007 as the World Cinema Foundation by American filmmaker Martin Scorsese, it was inspired by the work of The Film Foundation in the United States, a similar venture which Scorsese founded with George Lucas , Francis Ford Coppola , Stanley Kubrick , Steven Spielberg and Clint Eastwood in 1990. Trances , a music documentary about Nass El Ghiwane an influential Moroccan music group,

24-666: A complete collection of every Academy Awards show since 1949. Since acquiring the Packard Humanities Institute Collection, the Archive has the world's largest known trailer collection. The Archive is also concerned with the preservation and restoration of films, as well as new technologies and methods of preservation, restoring over 1100 titles of historical and artistic importance. The Archive offers access to its collections to researchers and scholars. Based on availability, preservation status and condition of

36-423: A free interdisciplinary curriculum that the foundation has distributed to millions of students and tens of thousands of classrooms. It teaches about the cultural significance of film and the importance of preservation. The curriculum "is intended to teach kids to think critically about what they see in film, and to consider the filmmaking process and decisions made along the way. It also helps students place films in

48-667: A historical context, using them as a springboard for conversations about social issues." The Academy Film Archive houses The Film Foundation Collection. The collection consists primarily of newly struck prints on nearly 100 titles. The Film Foundation, UNESCO , and the Fédération Panafricaine des Cinéastes jointly run The African Film Heritage Project, which preserves culturally significant movies made in Africa and allows Africans to see those movies, as many of them received only limited distribution on their home continent. By 2021,

60-675: A mere 10% of those produced in the US prior to 1929 survived. Even films made in Eastmancolor after 1950 were already deteriorating. Because of the risk of deterioration and color fading as films age, Martin Scorsese "began his film preservation crusade in 1980", educating both the industry and the public about the problem. In 1990, Scorsese created The Film Foundation together with Woody Allen , Robert Altman , Francis Ford Coppola , Clint Eastwood , Stanley Kubrick , George Lucas , Sydney Pollack , Robert Redford and Steven Spielberg , who all sat on

72-714: Is part of the Academy Foundation, established in 1944 with the purpose of organizing and overseeing the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences ' educational and cultural activities, including the preservation of motion picture history. Although the existing incarnation of the Academy Film Archive began in 1991, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences acquired its first film in 1929. Located in Hollywood, California at

84-680: The Film Society of Lincoln Center , Kent Jones became the foundation's executive director. The Film Foundation The Film Foundation is a US-based non-profit organization dedicated to film preservation and the exhibition of restored and classic cinema. It was founded by director Martin Scorsese and several other leading filmmakers in 1990. The foundation raises funds and awareness for film preservation projects and creates educational programs about film. The foundation and its partners have restored more than 900 films. As of 1997, more than half of all films made before 1950 had been lost , and

96-549: The Pickford Center for Motion Picture Study , the Archive has a diverse range of moving image material. The Archive's collection comprises 107,000 titles and 230,000 separate items, including early American cinema, a vast collection of documentary films , filmed and taped interviews, amateur and private home movies of Hollywood legends, makeup and sound test reels, and a wide selection of experimental film , as well as Academy Award -winning films, Academy Award-nominated films, and

108-415: The foundation and its partners had restored more than 900 films. The Film Foundation Restoration Screening Room launched May 9, 2022, with the presentation of the 1945 film I Know Where I'm Going! Screenings will run on the second Monday of each month and feature introductions and post-screening conversations about the importance of the films. Academy Film Archive The Academy Film Archive

120-599: The foundation has helped save more than 600 movies. The foundation seeks to promote the exhibition (as well as preservation) of classic cinema. Since 2002, the foundation has been affiliated with the Directors Guild of America , working out of the Guild's offices in New York and Los Angeles and sharing two officers who also sit on the foundation's board. The foundation also creates educational programs such as "The Story of Movies",

132-541: The foundation's original board of directors. In 2006, Paul Thomas Anderson , Wes Anderson , Curtis Hanson , Peter Jackson , Ang Lee and Alexander Payne joined them. In 2015, Christopher Nolan also joined the board. The foundation has been called "the leading organization devoted to fundraising, increasing awareness of preservation, and issuing grants to safeguard this country's cinematic heritage." It aids in preserving movie history by providing support for preservation projects at film archives. Since its inception,

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144-751: Was picked by Martin Scorsese as the inaugural release for the foundation; it was screened at the Cannes Film Festival in 2007 and at Djemaa el-Fna square in Morocco . The World Cinema Foundation is backed by an advisory board "Filmmaker Council" which includes Martin Scorsese , Fatih Akin , Souleymane Cissé , Guillermo del Toro , Stephen Frears , Alejandro González Iñárritu , Wong Kar-Wai , Abbas Kiarostami , Deepa Mehta , Ermanno Olmi , Raoul Peck , Cristi Puiu , Walter Salles , Abderrahmane Sissako , Elia Suleiman , Bertrand Tavernier , Wim Wenders , and Tian Zhuangzhuang . After leaving his position at

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