Moving Pictures Around the World
7th Orphan Film Symposium, April 7-10, 2010
at the Library of Congress
National Audio-Visual Conservation Center
The Orphan Film Symposium travels to the Library of Congress for its seventh biennial gathering of archivists, preservationists, curators, scholars, collectors, librarians, technology experts, and media artists from around the world in saving, studying, and screening neglected moving images. NYU Cinema Studies is pleased to accept the Library’s invitation to convene in the NAVCC’s jewel-box theater on its Packard Campus.
(Photo by Bob Bieberdorf)
Call for Presentations
Following on the internationalism evident at the 2008 Orphan Film Symposium (at which 18 nations were represented), Orphans 7 will focus on transnational and global issues. How have moving images circulated across national and other boundaries? How are neglected archival materials accessed and used across and within borders?
We seek proposals for presentations on topics including: film repatriation projects; moving image works about international and regional subjects; regional and transnational cinemas (e.g., the Global South, the West, Bollywood, Nollywood, Middle Eastern, Southeast Asian); issues of migration, mobility, and global/local dynamics; 
international co-productions; intellectual property and copyright debates; foreign markets and multiple-language releases; heritage, cultural property, and developing nations; diasporic cinemas; border cultures; World-Wide Web as de facto archive; DVD regions; film festivals; the World Cinema Foundation; the work of international associations in media preservation and access; and any neglected historical or archival material that sheds light on globalism or the transnational aspects of history and archiving. New works by media artists using archival material are also sought, as are nominations for the Helen Hill Award (given to innovative, independent filmmakers).
REVIEW OF PROPOSALS begins June 30, 2009.
Contact: Dan.Streible@nyu.edu