PRESERVATION
The Film Foundation supports the preservation and restoration of cinema, ensuring its survival for future generations.
EDUCATION
The Story of Movies curriculum teaches middle and high school students the language of cinema.
10/18/2018 12:00:00 AM
AFI FEST Announces Cinema’s Legacy and Midnight Lineups
In this year’s Cinema’s Legacy program, AFI FEST highlights films directed by women. This section is a celebration of motion picture history and a special opportunity to screen recent restorations of classic and lesser-known films. The festival spotlights six independent filmmakers across subjects and genres, including two world-premiere restorations, and newly struck 16mm presentations:
10/27/2018
São Paulo International Film Festival, CINESESC, São Paulo, Brazil
PIXOTE
Restored by The Film Foundation’s World Cinema Project and Cineteca di Bologna at L’Immagine Ritrovata in association with HB Filmes, Cinemateca Brasileira, and JLS Facilitações Sonoras. Restoration funded by the George Lucas Family Foundation.
"Our American artistic heritage has to be preserved and shared by all of us. Just as we’ve learned to take pride in our poets and writers, in jazz and the blues, we need to take pride in our cinema, our great American art form.”
Martin Scorsese, Founder and Chair
