Bob Rosen Will Keynote ASC/AMIA
Seminar at Hollywood Film Festival
HOLLYWOOD, October 8, 2004 — The American Society of Cinematographers (ASC) and the Association of Moving Image Archivists (AMIA) will stage a joint seminar titled Preserving the Heritage at the Hollywood Film Festival. The seminar will be conducted here at the Arclight Theater from 1:30- 3 p.m. on Sunday October 17.
Dean Robert Rosen, UCLA School of Theater, Film and Television, will keynote the seminar and participate in the discussion. The other participants are cinematographers Owen Roizman, ASC, Allen Daviau, ASC and Caleb Deschanel, ASC, along with preservationists Grover Crisp and Milt Shefter.
“We believe our industry has a moral obligation to ensure that future generations are able to experience motion pictures the way they were intended to be seen by the cinematographers and their collaborators who authored the images.” says Roizman. “This dialogue with the dedicated members of AMIA is a step in the right direction.”
Dean Rosen, Deschanel and the American Society of Cinematographers are honorees at the festival. Dean Rosen will receive the Hollywood Film Preservation Award, Deschanel will receive the Cinematographer of the year Award, and the festival will present a special tribute recognizing the 85th anniversary of ASC.
Roizman and Daviau are both five-time Academy Award nominees, and Deschanel has four nominations. Roizman was tapped for The French Connection, The Excorcist, Network, Tootsie and Wyatt Earp. Daviau was nominated for E.T.: The Extraterrestrial, The Color Purple,The Empire of the Sun, Avalon and Bugsy. Deschanel was nominated for The Right Stuff, the Natural, Fly Away Home and The Patriot.
Rosen delivered a series of lectures about film history and culture at UCLA in 1974. He subsequently joined the faculty and directed the growth of the UCLA Film and Television Archive from a small collection of prints to one of the world’s largest treasure troves of films, documentaries, television programs and newsreels. He was named dean of the UCLA School of Theater, Film and Television in 1998.
Crisp is an associate member of ASC and vice president of Asset Management and Film Restoration Protection for Sony Pictures Entertainment. He chairs an ASC technology sub-committee, which is studying and recommending practices for film restoration and preservation. Shefter is an ASC associate member and president of AMIA. He is the founder and president of Miljoy Ent. Inc, a consulting firm that specializes in the preservation of moving images.
The ASC was founded in 1919 at the dawn of the motion picture industry by 15 charter members who were committed to advancing the art of filmmaking. AMIA is a non-profit association committed to fostering an exchange of ideas and cooperation between individuals and organizations dedicated to preserving moving images for posterity. The organization was founded in 1992. There are some 750 individual and institutional members in more than 30 countries.
For more information about the AMIA visit www.amianet.org.
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