Bringing movies back to life
Ella Al-Shamahi talks to women from Italy and US about the intricate craft of film restoration and the importance of bringing movies, especially those by women, back to life.
Ella Al-Shamahi talks to women from Italy and US about the craft of film restoration and the importance of bringing movies, especially those by women, back to life.
Sandra Schulberg is the founder and president of IndieCollect 鈥� a nonprofit in the US that has restored more than 85 films since 2016 and rescued thousands of abandoned film negatives. She describes the independent movies they care for as 鈥榦rphans鈥� and says it鈥檚 vital to keep these films alive as they鈥檙e not just cinematic heritage, they鈥檙e cultural history.
Italian-born Elena Nepoti is the film conservation manager at the British Film Institute National Archive. She鈥檚 particularly focussed on the restoration of films from the silent era and is currently managing an ongoing major project 鈥� restoring a series of Sherlock Holmes pictures from the 1920s which were given approval of Arthur Conan Doyle himself.
Produced by Hannah Dean and Jane Thurlow
(Image: (L) Elena Nepoti, courtesy Elena Nepoti. (R), Sandra Schulberg credit Barbara Katz.)
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