In October last year, SPA asked the world for entries for the SPA Film Festival 2019. Anyone could enter, following some simple rules. The main objective however, was that the films portrayed in a good way archives and records management as the asset they are to society, to citizens, researchers or to one particular organization.
By the deadline, SPA had received 58 entries that all met the criteria. The filmmakers were from Asia, Europe and North America. Being the jury, the SPA Steering committee went through all entries during our meeting in May 2019 and decided on three nominated films in each of the following four categories:
Best Film explaining the relevance and importance of Archives and Records management.
The nominated films are:
The Fifth Branch Company of CCCC Second Harbour Engineering Co. Ltd. (China)
Escuela Superior de Archivística y Gestión de Documentos (Catalonia)
Scottish Council on Archives (Scotland)
Best Film portraying the relevance and importance of Archives and Records Management.
The nominated films are:
State Grid Sichuan Electric Power Company (China)
Municipality of Bærum (Norway)
Comune di Rovereto – Biblioteca civica “Tartarotti” (Italy)
Best Film using Humor to communicate about Archives or Records Management.
The nominated films are:
Archives départementales du Nord (France)
Hessisches Landesarchiv (Germany)
University of Alcalá (Spain)
Best Film made by students.
The nominated films are:
Renmin University of China (China)
Zhengzhou University (China)
Art Studio Stępowska Agnieszka (Poland)
The winners will be announced during the closing ceremony at the ICA Conference in Adelaide Thurday October 24, 2019!
In addition to these four categories, we also have the People’s arward where YOU will have all the power! Last time SPA had a Film Festival, we recieved almost 2400 votes. Will we beat that this year? It’s up to you! We will start the online voting August 18, 2019, so keep posted!