A recent article on Smithsonian.com details the Human Studies Film Archives work to restore and preserve Argentine filmmaker Jorge Prelorán’s Valle Fértil (1972), which shows for the first time in the United States on December 4 at the Society for Visual Anthropology Film Festival in Washington, D.C. Read more.
DER is excited to announce that we are recipients of a 2023 preservation grant from the National Film Preservation Foundation to restore two of John Marshall’s films – BITTER MELONS (1971) and N/UM TCHAI (1969).
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DER is proud to announce the induction of Victor Masayesva, Jr.’s Itam Hakim Hopiit into the National Film Registry. Each year, the Library of Congress (LOC) selects 25 films deemed “culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant”.
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