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Colombia
Fundación Cinemateca del Caribe
A new FIAF affiliate, the Fundación Cinemateca del Caribe, founded
nine years ago and located in Barranquilla, Colombia, is celebrating the
acquisition of its own facilities. These include offices and a well-equipped
109-sear theater. The Cinemateca currently programs two films daily for
an ever-increasing and very enthusiastic audience. The Fundación
has also created a film and television archive, the Archivo Filmico Regional.
In operation for only six months, the Archivo has already brought 234 films
under its protection. The Archivo has also developed a library which currently
contains more than 800 publications and 200 cinema books, as well as growing
collections of posters, photos and press clippings. One of the most important
films rescued by the Archivo is a film shot by Floro Manco, a Colombian-Italian
filmmaker considered to be the pioneer of Colmbia's documentary cinema.
The Fundación Cinemateca del Caribe is in the research phase of a
publication project known as Añorando a Mr Arkadin, a compilation
of the film reviews of the well-respected Colombian journalist, writer and
cinema critic Julio Roca Baena, who died in 1972.
La Fundación Cinemateca del Caribe s'installe, neuf ans après
sa création, dans de nouveaux locaux.
Après l'aménagement en 1995 des Archives cinématographiques
régionales où elle a entrepris des travaux de conservation
et de recherches, la Cinemateca del Caribe inaugure ses propres bureaux
et une salle de projections de 109 sièges.