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Cinemateca Uruguaya (''Uruguayan Cinematheque'') is a non-profit
Its areas of activity include:Cinemateca.htm
/ref> *Film Preservation. Facilities in the outskirts of Montevideo store archived materials at optimal temperature and humidity. *School of Cinema. Offers grade school, post graduate, and extracurricular courses. *Cinemas. Four venues in Montevideo: Cinemateca 18, Sala Pocitos Hall, Sala Cinemateca and Sala 2. * Cinematographic Documentation Center. Includes collections of books, magazines and journals, newspaper articles, photos, posters, and other media. Cinemateca Uruguaya also organizes the International Cinema Festival of Uruguay, which in 2018 marked its 36th year.
File:Edificio que alberga a la Cinemateca Uruguaya.jpg, New headquarters of Cinemateca Uruguaya and CAF – Development Bank of Latin America and the Caribbean
File:Cinemateca Uruguaya Interior 1.jpg, Exhibition inside the building.
File:Interior Cinemateca Uruguaya Ascensor.jpg, Interior and accessibility services.
File:Interior Cinemateca Uruguaya Pasillo.jpg, Interior and hallways to cinema rooms
File:Cinemateca Uruguaya Sala.jpg, One of the cinema rooms.
Cinemateca Uruguaya's website
(in Spanish only)
Cinema School of Uruguay
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cinematheque
A cinematheque is an archive of films and film-related objects with an exhibition venue. Similarly to a book library (bibliothèque in French), a cinematheque is responsible for preserving and making available to the public film heritage. Typica ...
in Montevideo
Montevideo () is the Capital city, capital and List of cities in Uruguay, largest city of Uruguay. According to the 2011 census, the city proper has a population of 1,319,108 (about one-third of the country's total population) in an area of . M ...
, Uruguay
Uruguay (; ), officially the Oriental Republic of Uruguay ( es, República Oriental del Uruguay), is a country in South America. It shares borders with Argentina to its west and southwest and Brazil to its north and northeast; while bordering ...
, established in 1952, that aims to support the cultural development of cinema
Cinema may refer to:
Film
* Cinematography, the art of motion-picture photography
* Film or movie, a series of still images that create the illusion of a moving image
** Film industry, the technological and commercial institutions of filmmaking
* ...
, and of art in general. Since its inception, it has belonged to the International Federation of Film Archives
The International Federation of Film Archives (french: Fédération internationale des archives du film, FIAF) was founded in Paris in 1938 by the Cinémathèque Française, the Reichsfilmarchiv in Berlin, the British Film Institute and the Museum ...
(FIAF). It is also a founding member of the Latin American Coordinating Committee of Moving Image Archives (CLAIM), and advisory member of the Audiovisual and Film Institute of Uruguay (ICAU).
By the end of the twentieth century, its archive held 11,500 films, including over 2,000 Uruguayan works.
In 1995, Cinemateca Uruguaya received the Premio Morosoli, an Uruguayan cultural award. It was designated Cultural Heritage of the City of Montevideo. In October 1998, its importance as an educational institution was recognized by the Faculty of Humanities and Educational Science of the University of the Republic
The University of the Republic ( es, Universidad de la República, sometimes ''UdelaR'') is Uruguay's oldest public university. It is by far the country's largest university, as well as the second largest public university in South America and t ...
, and it was categorized as an educational and cultural institution by the Ministry of Education and Culture of Uruguay. Its film archive was declared a national historic monument by the Heritage Commission and the ICAU, and its activities were declared of departmental and cultural interest to the city of Montevideo.
Areas of activity
Its areas of activity include:/ref> *Film Preservation. Facilities in the outskirts of Montevideo store archived materials at optimal temperature and humidity. *School of Cinema. Offers grade school, post graduate, and extracurricular courses. *Cinemas. Four venues in Montevideo: Cinemateca 18, Sala Pocitos Hall, Sala Cinemateca and Sala 2. * Cinematographic Documentation Center. Includes collections of books, magazines and journals, newspaper articles, photos, posters, and other media. Cinemateca Uruguaya also organizes the International Cinema Festival of Uruguay, which in 2018 marked its 36th year.
Gallery
See also
*Cinema of Uruguay
The cinema of Uruguay has a role in the culture of Uruguay and is a part of Latin American cinema. Since the late 1990s, Uruguayan cinema has undergone a process of evolution, during which its films have received positive reviews and been inte ...
* List of film archives
This is a list of film archives and cinematheques. Film archives collect, restore, investigate and conserve audiovisual content like films, documentaries, television programs and newsreel footage. Often, every country has its own film archive to ...
* Cinematheque
A cinematheque is an archive of films and film-related objects with an exhibition venue. Similarly to a book library (bibliothèque in French), a cinematheque is responsible for preserving and making available to the public film heritage. Typica ...
References
External links
Cinemateca Uruguaya's website
(in Spanish only)
Cinema School of Uruguay
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