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The Thessaloniki Film Festival (implementing body), in equal collaboration with the Greek Film Centre and the Greek Film Academy, has undertaken an important project aimed at documenting the history of Greek Cinema as comprehensively as possible. The project was recently approved and is funded by the recovery fund.
"Scientific documentation, content development, monitoring and promotion" of the project "+E M A T E K Virtual Museum & Repository of Greek Cinema."
The ultimate vision of the project is to create a central, comprehensive repository platform for the history, films, and individuals, artists and technicians of Greek cinema. The platform will aim to document, highlight, and promote Greek cinema to a wide audience, including students and professionals in the film industry, both in Greece and abroad. It will also serve as an important tool for showcasing Greek cinema within a network of international film organizations and independent individual and collective action entities (distributors, festivals, film archives, cinema centres, museums, exhibition spaces, etc.), which will be established through the actions of the three bodies.
The platform will be continuously updated with valuable digitized documents from the archives of key institutions (such as the Greek Film Archive, the National Film Center, the National Archive of Contemporary History, etc.), providing cross-verified and specialized information to their websites and applications, as well as to any interested parties.
In this way, for the first time, a reliable common research, recording, and presentation repository of the history of Greek cinema is being created on such a scale, following international documentation standards (such as those of the International Federation of Film Archives [Fédération internationale des archives du film – FIAF]), while achieving an enhanced dissemination of information to a broad user base, and consequently greater outreach for national cinema, utilizing the different promotional channels of these three institutions. This project initially connects three significant pillars of Greek cinema and aims to initiate closer collaboration with all public and private entities in the field.
Its content will utilize, among other things: the history of the Thessaloniki Film Festival as captured in a digitized archive of great cultural wealth (which has been compiled from both previous documentation projects and the daily activities of the organization, consisting of writings, masterclasses, interviews, rare publications, catalogs, and historical film magazines, the HELLAFI collection, as well as rare photographic material and video); the invaluable archive of film materials (scripts, posters, etc.) of Greek films from the Greek Film Center (which will be digitized for the needs of the project); and the database and personal archive of the members of the Greek Film Academy, that is, all active professionals and creators of Greek cinema.
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