Restoration Agency European Genre Film Foundation Launches at Cannes (EXCLUSIVE)

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Naman Ramachandran The European Genre Film Foundation (EGFF), aimed at restoring and raising awareness of classic genre films in Europe and globally, launched at Cannes on Tuesday.The non-profit organization, headquartered in Stockholm, will work with film libraries, archives, rights holders, academics, film festivals and other institutions.

It is modelled on Martin Scorsese’s Film Foundation and the American Genre Film Archive (AGFA) in the U.S.Among the first projects of the EGFF will be an academic study of historic female genre film makers in Europe and raising funds for a 4K film scanner set-up dedicated to digitizing and restoring genre films and related material that is languishing in archives.

The EGFF will also be arranging symposiums, workshops and film screenings. In its next phase the EGFF will begin consultations with European film archives, public institutions and rights holders about developing a plan and workflow for identifying, rescuing, scanning and making films available to a wide audience.The board of directors for EGFF includes: Rickard Gramfors, CEO, Cultpix AB/Klubb Super 8 AB (Sweden); Lisa Petrucci, CEO, Something Weird Video (U.S.); Kate Egan, senior lecturer, University of Northumbria (U.K.); Mariah Larsson, Institution for Film and Literature, Linné University (Sweden); Gérald Duchaussoy, project manager, International Classic Film Market Lyon, head of Cannes Classics (France); Mikko Aromaa, director, Night Visions, chair, Nordic Genre Invasion (Finland); and Henrik Gouali, administrator social sustainability and collaboration, SLSO (Sweden).Funding for the EGFF will come from the proceeds of streaming public domain films on the Cultpix streaming platform, which was launched in 2021, and.