FIAT/IFTA Latin American Seminar in Santiago

Mr. Enrique Aimone, Secretary General of TVN Chile hosting the FIAT/IFTA Seminar, giving the delegates a welcoming speech. (right) Ms. Amira Arratia Fernandez, Head of tv-archives, TVN Chile (left) Tedd Johansen, President of FIAT/IFTA, chairing the Seminar (center)

Key-note speaker Professor Jan Olsson, Stockholm University dept. of Cinema Studies discussing with delegate Claudia Perel, Archivo General de la Nación, Argentina.

The P&PC FIAT/IFTA Award pre-jury at work in Santiago

These are a few snapshots from the "Audiovisual Archives in Latin America" - Seminar that was held in Santiago de Chile May 27-28th. The Seminar was one in a row of regional meetings FIAT/IFTA are promoting to establish networks of audiovisual archives where the main regional language preferably can be used (this time Spanish). Preceding this event was the annual Programming & Production Commission meeting for shortlisting programmes for the FIAT/IFTA Awards (the Commission meet at a rotating scheme where the organizations of members are located). You will find an exhaustive report from the Seminar in the next issue of the Newsletter. The proceedings of the Seminar will be published later this summer and of course you will find them at the FIAT/IFTA homepages as well.

Lasse Nilsson
Chair, Programming & Production Commission
lasse.nilsson@svt.se