THE OFFICIAL JOURNAL OF FOCAL INTERNATIONAL SUMMER 2017 ISSUE NO. 102 FOCAL Awards 2017 – Special edition Winners – nominees – souvenir snapshots Double-award-winning Beatles’ worldwide footage trawl Music archive ‘up for grabs’ The Archive industry source for NEWS • FEATURES • EVENTS • REVIEWS FOCAL INTERNATIONAL ARCHIVE ZONES (ONLINE) ISSN 2398-1814 FEDERATION OF COMMERCIAL AUDIO VISUAL LIBRARIES CONGRATULATIONSto all nominees & winners of the Focal International Awards 2017 FremantleMedia Archive Email: [email protected] Tel: +44(0)207 691 6733 www.fremantlemedia.com Reprinted from Archive Zones, Summer 2017 Issue No. 102 © FOCAL International 2647FMI Archive Ad Apr17 v2.indd 1 06/04/2017 12:00 EDITORIAL Editorial Contents Make your voice heard The absolutely crucial moments in a News relay race are the change-overs – when Pathé reclaims German rights the baton is passed between runners, World through a Communist lens ideally at full speed and without dropping it! And thus it is with the takeover of AFI’s new Dean 4 FOCAL’s new Management team. Anne Johnson and Julie Lewis were a very hard Features act to follow but Mary Egan, Madeline Video Pool up for sale 7 Bates and Amanda Dantas have now negotiated the biggest challenge of every Singapore’s view on IP 9 FOCAL Year – the Awards night. Upon taking up the baton the team gave every Michael Archer FOCAL International indication of being up to speed and the you have managed to attend an Awards Awards 2017 job evening or not. Inside the Beatles’ ‘bubble’ 12 Significantly too, they are happy to be Equally, your quarterly magazine is only Awards night party and pictures 16 scrutinised. Their first post-Awards as good as the quality of its ideas and initiative is a questionnaire to find out The Winners – contributors. 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Website www.focalint.org 3 Reprinted from Archive Zones, Summer 2017 Issue No. 102 © FOCAL International Reprinted from Archive Zones, Summer 2017 Issue No. 102 © FOCAL International NEWS British Pathé now licensing directly to German territories NEWS British Pathé, the world-famous newsreel experience of licensing from the other time and money at the offline edit stage. archive, has launched a new licensing service side of the aisle, having worked as a “The archive’s coverage of German politics in the German-speaking world, marking documentary filmmaker in recent decades. and culture is very strong,” says Witter, the first time in many years that media “I’m looking forward enormously”, he said, “with well over 4,000 films, featuring professionals in these territories will be “to working with, and getting to know, everything from Kaiser Wilhelm II in the late able to license footage from British Pathé producers in Germany, Austria, Switzerland 1890s to a documentary about the Berlin directly, rather than dealing with third-party and beyond.” Wall in 1971 and beyond”. representatives. Rare among archives, every frame of British Simon Witter has been appointed to Pathé’s 85,000 newsreels, documentaries British Pathé oversee the service as British Pathé’s and cine magazines is viewable and +44 (0)20 7665 8344 Licensing Executive for Germany and searchable online. Crucially, this resource Eastern Europe. Witter, 54, has a passion is complemented by free, 24/7 screener [email protected]. for archive footage and extensive downloads, a popular tool that saves clients www.britishpathe.com. AFI names Gladstein as new Dean NEWS The American Film Institute (AFI) has and CEO. Head of Production. He has twice been announced the appointment of award- “I look forward to this new journey with nominated for a Best Picture Oscar® and winning producer Richard Gladstein as pride and humility,” said Gladstein. “The AFI enjoys a long and fruitful collaboration with Dean of the AFI Conservatory. Gladstein’s is a storied and extraordinary organization, Quentin Tarantino. His films have received duties will underscore AFI’s demanding and I am extremely proud to become a part 25 Academy Award® nominations and five approach to graduate film education – that of its inspiring work. Similar to producing wins. Fellows “learn by doing,” and collaborate films, educating filmmakers is foremost Gladstein joins the list of distinguished on a minimum of four films in the two-year about identifying stories, and then uniting leaders who have served the AFI MFA program. cinematic crafts, tools and personnel to tell Conservatory, including Jan Schuette, who “AFI’s promise to the next generation of those stories.” departs June 30, as well as Robert Mandel, storytellers is that they will find their own Gladstein is the Founder and President Frank Pierson, Robert Wise and Antonio unique voice through rigorous collaboration. of Los Angeles-based motion picture Vellani. We are proud and honoured to have a production company FilmColony. Prior American Film Institute proven leader in the creative community to to the formation of FilmColony, he was 323.856.7600 guide the AFI Conservatory to even greater Miramax’s Executive Vice President and heights,” said Bob Gazzale, AFI President [email protected] The world through a communist lens NEWS Stanley Foreman’s collection countries saw themselves and the world Pilots in Pyjamas, see Vanessa Redgrave’s around them during major political and emotional response to nuclear testing in digitized and available social events of the twentieth century. 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