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The '''Association of European Cinematheques''' (French: '''A'''ssociation des '''C'''inémathèques '''E'''uropéennes - '''ACE''' ) is an affiliation of 49 European national and regional film archives founded in 1991.<ref>{{Cite web|title=History of ACE|url=https://ace-film.eu/about-ace/history-ace/|access-date=18 November 2020|website=ACE - Association des Cinémathèques Européennes}}</ref> Its role is to safeguard the European film heritage and make this rich audiovisual records collected and preserved by the various film archives accessible to the public. ACE is a regional branch of [[International Federation of Film Archives|FIAF Fédération Internationale des Archives du Film / International Federation of Film Archives]]. ACE members are non-profit institutions committed to the [[International Federation of Film Archives|FIAF]] Code of Ethics.<ref>{{Cite web|title=FIAF Code of Ethics|url=https://www.fiafnet.org/pages/Community/Code-Of-Ethics.html|access-date=18 November 2020|website=FIAF - International Federation of Film Archives}}</ref>

==History==
European film archives have been collecting, preserving, and restoring films and other materials relating to films since the 1930s. The collections range from pre-cinema apparatus to [[digital cinema]] files, all of which require specific methods, techniques and an extensive knowledge of [[film history]] for preservation.

In 1991, representatives of 31 main European film archives came together to create LUMIERE, a pan-European film restoration project.<ref name=":0">{{Cite book|title=The Lumiere Project: The European Film Archives at the Crossroads|publisher=Associação Projeto Lumiere|year=1996|isbn=9789729540400|editor-last=Surowiec|editor-first=Catherine A.|location=Lisbon, Portugal}}</ref><ref name=":1">{{Cite book|last=Olesen|first=C. G.|url=https://hdl.handle.net/11245.1/ad68a275-e968-4fce-b91e-4783cd69686c|title=Film history in the making: Film historiography, digitised archives and digital research dispositifs.|publisher=Amsterdam School for Heritage and Memory Studies (AHM)|year=2017|location=Amsterdam|hdl=11245.1/ad68a275-e968-4fce-b91e-4783cd69686c}}</ref> It was the first large-scale film restoration project funded by the MEDIA I Programme of the European community. The LUMIERE project lasted between 1991 and 1996, during which more than 1000 film titles were preserved and restored, 700 films were re-discovered and identified and a Joint European Filmography (JEF) was established.<ref name=":0" /><ref name=":1" /><ref>{{Cite book|last=Le Roy|first=Eric|title=Cinémathèques et archives du film|publisher=Armand Colin|year=2013|location=Paris|pages=130}}</ref>

ACE started in 1991 as the Association des Cinémathèques de la Communauté Européenne (ACCE).<ref name=":0" /><ref name=":1" /> By the end of the LUMIERE project in 1996, the association renamed to its current title, Association des Cinémathèques Européennes (ACE), and established collaboratively its role in raising awareness of the cultural and economic value of European film heritage among policy makers and the audiovisual industry.<ref name=":1" />

Operating on European level, ACE also represents the interest of its members to the European Union. ACE works to support and improve the economic and legal conditions, as well as technical and scientific research for [[digitization]] and long-term [[film preservation]].<ref>Nicola Mazzanti, Peaceful Fish: Challenges of the Digital Era for Film Heritage Institutions. Final Report prepared for the European Commission, DG Information Society and Media, December 2011.
http://ec.europa.eu/digital-agenda/sites/digital-agenda/files/final_report_en.pdf
</ref>

==ACE members==
ACE is an affiliation of 49 national and regional European film archives:<ref>{{Cite book|url=https://ace-film.eu/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/A-Season-of-Classic-Films_Programme-catalogue.pdf|title=A Season of Classic Films: programme catalogue|publisher=ACE - Association des Cinémathèques Européennes|year=2020|editor-last=Reizi|editor-first=Paulina|location=Amsterdam, The Netherlands}}</ref>

# [[EYE Film Institute Netherlands|Eye Filmmuseum]], Amsterdam
# [[Greek Film Archive|Ταινιοθήκη της Ελλάδος / Greek Film Archive]], Athens
# [[Filmoteca de Catalunya]], Barcelona
# Filmske novosti, Belgrade
# [[Yugoslav Film Archive|Arhiv Jugoslovenske kinoteke / Jugoslav Film Archive]], Belgrade
# [[German Federal Archives|Bundesarchiv-Filmarchiv]], Berlin
# [[Deutsche Kinemathek]], Berlin
# [[Kinemathek Bern|Lichtspiel / Kinemathek Bern]], Bern
# [[Centre national du cinéma et de l'image animée|Centre national du cinéma]], Bois d’Arcy
# [[Cineteca di Bologna|Fondazione Cineteca di Bologna]], Bologna
# [[Cinematek|Cinémathèque royale de Belgique / Koninklijk Belgisch Filmarchief]], Brussels
# [[Arhiva Națională de Filme|Arhiva Nationala de Filme]], Bucharest
# Nemzeti Filmintézet Magyarország – Filmarchívum / National Film Institute Hungary – Film Archive, Budapest
# [[Danish Film Institute|Det Danske Filminstitut]], Copenhagen
# [[Irish Film Institute]], Dublin
# [[Deutsches Filminstitut|DFF – Deutsches Filminstitut & Filmmuseum]], Frankfurt
# La Cineteca del Friuli, Gemona
# [[National Audiovisual Institute (Finland)|Kansallinen audiovisuaalinen instituutti / National Audiovisual Institute, Finland]], Helsinki
# [[Swiss Film Archive|Cinémathèque suisse]], Lausanne
# [[Cinemateca Portuguesa|Cinemateca Portuguesa – Museu do Cinema]], Lisbon
# Slovenski filmski arhiv, Ljubljana
# Slovenska kinoteka / Slovenian Cinematheque, Ljubljana
# [[British Film Institute]], London
# [[Imperial War Museum|Imperial War Museums]], London
# La Cinémathèque de la Ville de Luxembourg, Luxembourg
# [[Filmoteca Española]], Madrid
# Fondazione [[Cineteca Italiana]], Milan
# [[Gosfilmofond]], Moscow
# Filmmuseum München, Münich
# [[National Library of Norway|Nasjonalbiblioteket]], Oslo
# [[Norwegian Film Institute|Cinemateket / The Norwegian Film Institute]], Oslo
# [[Cinémathèque Française|La Cinémathèque française]], Paris
# Crnogorska Kinoteka, Podgorica
# [[Czech Film Archive|Národní filmový archiv]], Prague
# [[Cineteca Nazionale]], Rome
# Kinoteka Bosne i Hercegovine, Sarajevo
# Кинотека на Република Северна Македонија / Cinematheque of the Republic of North Macedonia, Skopje
# [[Bulgarian National Film Archive|Българска национална филмотека / Bulgarian National Film Archive]], Sofia
# [[Swedish Film Institute|Svenska Filminstitutet]], Stockholm
# [[National Archives of Estonia|Film Archives of the National Archives of Estonia]], Tallinn
# [[Central State Film Archive (Albania)|Arkivi Qendror Shtetëror i Filmit (AQSHF) / Albanian National Film Archive]], Tirana
# La Cinémathèque de Toulouse
# [[National Museum of Cinema|Museo Nazionale del Cinema]], Turin
# Filmoteca Valenciana – Institut Valencià de Cultura, Valencia
# [[Vatican Film Library|Filmoteca Vaticana]], Vatican
# [[Filmarchiv Austria]], Vienna
# [[Austrian Film Museum|Österreichisches Filmmuseum]], Vienna
# Filmoteka Narodowa – Instytut Audiowizualny, Warsaw
# [[Croatian Film Archive|Hrvatski državni arhiv – Hrvatska kinoteka / Croatian state archive – Croatian cinematheque]], Zagreb

==Protection of film heritage in Europe==
The European Commission directly supports efforts to protect Europe's film heritage. The legal basis for action is Article 167 of the TFEU (Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union), which encourages member states to support the conservation and safeguard of the cultural heritage, including film heritage.<ref>{{Cite web|title=EUR-Lex Document 12008E167|url=https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/?uri=CELEX:12008E167|access-date=19 November 2020|website=EUR-Lex: Access to European Union Law}}</ref> The Film Heritage Recommendation 2005<ref>Recommendation of European Parliament and Council Recommendation of 16 November 2005 on film heritage and the competitiveness of related industrial activities, OJ L 323 of 9.12.2005, p.57.
http://eur-lex.europa.eu/LexUriServ/LexUriServ.do?uri=CELEX:32005H0865:EN:NOT
</ref> invites the member states to systematically collect, catalogue, preserve and restore Europe's film heritage.

==Projects==
ACE has initiated several film heritage projects funded by the European Union:
* LUMIERE (1991–1996), supported by MEDIA I programme.
* All the Colours of the World. Colours in early mass media 1900-1930 (1996–1997). Supported by KALEIDOSCOPE.<ref>{{Cite book|title=All the colours of the world: colours in early mass media 1900-1930 / Tutti i colori del mondo: Il colore nei mass media tra 1900 e 1930|publisher=Diabasis|year=1998|isbn=9788881030750}}</ref>
*Search For Lost Films (1997–1999), supported by RAPHAEL.
* FAOL – Film Archives On Line (1997–2000). Creation of web-based learning tools in the field of film preservation/restoration. Supported by LEONARDO.<ref>Brain Pitchard, Film Archives On Line: Its history, its aims. See: {{cite web|title=Archived copy|url=http://brianpritchard.com/311/film-archives-on-line/|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130831044346/http://brianpritchard.com/311/film-archives-on-line/|archive-date=2013-08-31|access-date=2013-08-16}}</ref>
* ARCHIMEDIA (1997–2004). European training network for the promotion of cinema heritage, supported by MEDIA II.<ref>Gregory Lukow "Education, Training and Careers in Moving Image Preservation". AMIA: The Association of Moving Image Archivists: https://www.academia.edu/1077727/_Education_Training_and_Careers_in_Moving_Image_Preservation_</ref>
*FIRST – Film Restoration and Conservation Strategies (2002–2004). Research project on the application of digital techniques to film heritage. “Film Archives on the Threshold of a Digital Era”: Technical Issues from the EU FIRST Project. FIAF Journal of Film Preservation n° 68, 12/2004. IST - 5th Framework Programme.
* MIDAS – Moving Image Database for Access and Re-use of European Film Collections (2006–2009). The web portal [[Filmarchives online]] gives access to catalogue information from film archives all over Europe.
* EDCINE – Enhanced Digital Cinema (2006–2009): Research and development of applications for storing, managing and distributing digitised archival films (IST 6th Framework Programme).
*EN 15744 and EN 15907: Cinematographic works standards on the interoperability of film databases (2005–2010). The standardization work was mandated in 2005 by the European Commission and delegated to CEN (European Committee for Standardization).<ref>http://www.filmstandards.org</ref>
* The [[European Film Gateway]] (2008–2011). The EFG Portal gives access to digitised films and film related material held in European film archives (eContentplus Programme).
* EFG1914: World War I Film digitisation project (2012–2014), supported by the ICT-Policy Support Programme.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.europeanfilmgateway.eu/1914|title = EFG1914 project | European Film Gateway}}</ref>
* FORWARD: Framework for an EU wide Audiovisual Orphan Works Registry (2013-2016). The project develops a system for assessing the rights status of audiovisual works and a registry of [[orphan film]] compliant to the [[Directive 2012/28/EU]] . The project is co-funded by the ICT-Policy Support Programme.
* ABCinema is a joint project of Europeana film archives and film education organisations to share best practices and new approaches in film literacy.
*A Season of Classic Films (2019–today): a series of free screenings across Europe to raise awareness of the work of European film archives, with many new digital film restorations presented by the ACE participating film institutions - supported by the EU Creative Europe programme.<ref>{{Cite web|title=A Season of Classic Films|url=https://ace-film.eu/projects/season-of-classics/|access-date=19 November 2020|website=ACE - Association des Cinémathèques Européennes}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news|date=15 October 2020|title=A Season of Classic Films: bringing European classics closer to people|work=European Commission|url=https://ec.europa.eu/digital-single-market/en/news/season-classic-films-bringing-european-classics-closer-people|access-date=19 November 2020}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|last=Reizi|first=Paulina|date=27 October 2020|title=A Season of Classic Films – Programme Catalogue|url=https://ace-film.eu/a-season-of-classic-films-programme-catalogue/|access-date=19 November 2020|website=ACE - Association des Cinémathèques Européennes}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|date=27 October 2020|title=ACE's Season of Classic Films|url=https://www.fiafnet.org/pages/News/ACE-film-classics.html|access-date=19 November 2020|website=FIAF - International Federation of Film Archives}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news|last=Meza|first=Ed|date=16 October 2020|title=Association of European Film Archives President Calls for Greater Access to Heritage Cinema Ahead of Season of Classic Films|work=Variety|url=https://variety.com/2020/film/global/association-of-european-film-libraries-president-calls-for-greater-access-to-heritage-cinema-ahead-of-season-of-classic-films-lumiere-festival-mifc-1234807442/|access-date=19 November 2020}}</ref>
*ArteKino Classics (2022-today): a partnership between [[Arte|ARTE]] and ACE to make European films and cinema history more visible and accessible to greater audiences by presenting a diverse programme of films by European archives.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Reizi |first=Paulina |date=1 February 2022 |title=A SEASON OF CLASSIC FILMS: ACE – ARTE PARTNERSHIP |url=https://ace-film.eu/a-season-of-classic-films-ace-arte-partnership/ |access-date=30 April 2022 |website=ACE - Association des Cinémathèques Européennes}}</ref> <ref>{{Cite web |last=Reizi |first=Paulina |date=29 March 2022 |title=ARTEKINO CLASSICS: A NEW LOOK AT EUROPE’S FILM HERITAGE |url=https://ace-film.eu/artekino-classics-a-new-look-at-european-film-heritage/ |access-date=30 April 2022 |website=ACE - Association des Cinémathèques Européennes}}</ref> <ref>{{Cite web |title=ArteKino Classics |url=https://www.arte.tv/en/videos/RC-022258/artekino-classics/ |access-date=30 April 2022 |website=ARTE}}</ref>

==External links==
* [http://www.ace-film.eu/ ACE website]
* [http://www.fiafnet.org/ FIAF Website]
* [http://www.europeanfilmgateway.eu The European Film Gateway]
* [http://www.project-forward.eu/ FORWARD - Framework for a EU wide Audiovisual Orphan Works Registry]
* [http://www.abcinemaproject.eu/ ABCinema Project]
* [https://ace-film.eu/projects/season-of-classics/ A Season of Classic Films]
* [http://ec.europa.eu/digital-agenda/en/protection-film-heritage Digital Agenda for Europe – Protection of the Film Heritage]

==References==
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[[Category:Cultural organizations based in Europe]]
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[[Category:Cultural heritage of Europe]]
[[Category:Film organisations in Belgium]]
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