Film archives all over the world are celebrating the centennial of the cinema invention. The National Film Archive (NFAI) too, is participating in this celebration, news of which has already been published in the FIAF Centenary Calendar.
The NFAI started to publish an English Bulletin of which first issue appeared in January 1989, but unfortunately its publication ceased and its last issue (n°5) appeared in September 1991.
Taking advantage of the centennial occasion, the NFAI decided to continue the publication of its English Bulletin, before the year is over. So we are pleased to announce that the Bulletin n°6 will appear sometime in early Autumn 1995.
The Bulletin of the NFAI begins its new issue with an expanded editorial staff, a fresh design and a novel approach. We will, of course, continue to cover the widest possible range of issues in Iranian cinema, from a variety of fresh perspectives. But the emphasis will be on film archiving, publicizing and promoting objectives of FIAF, along with articles covering different aspects of the Iranian film production, history, art and industry. As before, Mohammad-Hassan Khoshneviss, the director of the NFAI, is the editor-in-chief and Fereydoun Khameneipour, the director of international relations of the NFAI, is the editor responsible for all the English translations.
Each issue will start with a report of the activities of the NFAI, and end with the news of a special event. Presence of the Iranian Cinema in the International Film Festivals, the article which started in Bulletin n°3, will continue to appear regularly. In these series of articles all the Iranian films (short, feature, documentary... etc.), which have been awarded a prize in the international festivals, since the victory of the Islamic Revolution (February 11, 1979), will be introduced. The Social History of Iranian Cinema will also appear as a serial. The news of international film festivals where Iranian films are awarded a prize - as it was the case of the 48th International Locarno Film Festival which appear in Bulletin n°6 - together with the news of the International Fajr Film Festival - which takes place in Tehran, 1-11 February - and the International Festival of Films for Children and Young Adults - which takes place in Isfahan, 4-11 November - will also be reported. The rest of the issues will be devoted to individual articles and specific themes. Amongst these articles, there is in n°6: "A Look at the Fédération Internationale des Archives du Film, and topics discussed during annual congresses", by Fereydoun Khameneipour, which is an interesting article dealing with FIAF, and we recommend all our colleagues to read it and to write us their views on it.
We hope that by publishing articles such as the latter, we shall be able to open a line of communication among our colleagues, and in general, through the Bulletin, to respond to the numerous questions we receive concerning Iranian cinema.
M.H. Khoshneviss and Fereydoun Khameneipour
En vísperas de la celebración del Centenerio del cine, el Archivo Nacional del Cine de Irán reanuda la publicación de su Boletín con el N° 6, que, tras haberse iniciado en 1998, fué interrumpida en 1991.
Editado en inglés bajo la responsabilidad del director del archivo, Mohammad-Hassan Khoshneviss, y del encargado de relaciones internacionales, Fereydoun Khameneipour, el Boletín tratará temas generales del cine iraní (producción, festivales, etc.) así como diversos aspectos de la conservación de películas en este país.