By Svetlana Furman

FNE Classics is a new project of Film New Europe that will focus on classic films that are increasingly appearing in special selection in Cannes, Berlin, Venice and other major festivals as well as the growing popularity of festivals and events focused on classic film such as Cinema Ritrovato, Giornate de Cinema Muto in Pordenone or Silent Film Festival in San Francisco.

FNE Classics plans to be a new informational hub for recent restoration projects, rare restored film screenings, restoration grants proposed, new festivals, best post production-digital restoration companies, news on film labs, new restoration techniques, news from nitrate vaults, nitrate preservation and restoration issues.

At the same time we will be reporting on what is new in the world of archives, cooperation projects and organisations, new archive construction sites or metadata preservation. We plan to invite world renowned experts to speak about subjects like colour preservation and colour restoration programmes.

Classics programming will also be one of the main subjects with interviews of programming experts for silent film festivals. We will be talking about new and older film scores by best musicians, last and not least we will mention the most exceptional film screenings with live music events.

Last and not least FNE Classics will be following the work of biggest and most important archives, foundations, education units, publishing companies or film studios engaged in maintaining and presenting the audio-visual heritage.

So watch this space for the latest in news about classic film.