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HFPA Preservation Showcased in Restoration Weekend

Two film events will highlight HFPA restoration efforts. Continuing its mission to restore and preserve film heritage, the Hollywood Foreign Press Association gives major contributions and grants to print and digital restoration projects and holds an annual Film Restoration Summit.

This weekend the Italian Cultural Center in Los Angeles will pay tribute to the HFPA sponsored restoration of Fellini’s Roma. Fare Cinema, (“making film” in Italian) is a series launched three years ago to promote Italian cinema and its film industry in the world, under the auspices of the Italian due to the Covid-19 pandemic and in its entirety worldwide. It color:black’>exclusive video content, such as award-winning short movies and masterclasses, with a special focus this year on the 100th anniversary of late Italian legends, director   To honor the director’s centennial, tIn February the HFPA held its second annual Restoration Summit at the Egyptian Theatre in Hollywood in collaboration with the American Cinematheque. As part of Fare Cinema, IIC is presenting the master class held at the time by Gianluca Farinelli, director of the Cineteca di Bologna and of its festival – Il Cinema Ritrovato – which introduced the West Coast premiere of the restored version of Fellini’s Roma.

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Also, this weekend, through June 21, AFI Docs will show William Greaves’ long-lost documentary Nationtime – Gary, about the National Black Political Convention in Gary, Indiana in 1972, a historic event that gathered National African American political and cultural figures, among them Jesse Jackson. Dick Gregory, Coretta Scott King, Richard Hatcher, Amiri Baraka, Charles Diggs, and H. Carl McCall. Narrated by https://docs.afi.com/2020/cinemas-legacy-2020/nationtime-gary/#elevent

mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";color:#222222;background:white’>Best known for his avant-garde meta-documentary Symbiopsychotaxiplasm, William Greaves (1926 – 2014) was also the director of over 100 documentary films, the majority focused on African American history, politics, and culture.