MEMORY by film professionals : Conferences & Masterclasses

• Masterclass by Catherine Deneuve, actress (France) moderated by Olivier Assayas, Director (France) and Howard Besser, Film Professor (USA)
• Masterclass by Michelle Yeoh, actress (Malaysia), moderated by journalist Yves Montmayeur (France)

• Masterclass by Cheng Pei Pei, actress (Hong Kong), moderated by Olivier Assayas, Director (France)
• Masterclass by Daw Thin Thin Yu, Director (Myanmar), Daw Swe Zin Htaik, Daw Khin Thida Htun and Daw New New San, actresses (Myanmar).
• Masterclass by Olivier Assayas, Director (France) and Charles Gillibert, producer (France) moderated by Daniel Psenny, journalist (France)

• Masterclass by Lana Gogoberidze and Salome Alexi, Directors (Georgia), moderated by Howard Besser, Film Professor (USA,, New York University)
• Masterclass by Marrie Lee, actress (Singapore), moderated by Yves Montmayeur, Journalist (France)
• Conference by Howard Besser (USA) : « From Alice Guy to Barbara Loden »
• Workshop by Gabrielle Kelly (NYU Film School – Tisch School of the Arts): “Finding Your Voice”
• Conference by Davide Pozzi (Italy, Cineteca di Bologna – L’immagine Ritrovata) : Restoration of Classics – Study cases of Insiang by Lino Brocka (Phillipines) and Mya Ganaing by Maung Tin Maung (Myanmar)
• Conference by Susan Lee (Singapore, Motion Picture Association)
• Conference by Suresh Chabria (India, Film and Television Institute of India)
• Conference by Hidenori Okada (Japan, National Film Center of Japan): “Kashiko Kawakita, Japanese distributor : life achievement”
• Conference by Chew Tea Pao (Singapore, Asian Film Archive): “Representation of Gender in Singapore Films”
• Conference by Frances Calvert (Germany, Film University Babelsberg Konrad Worlf): “Women in German Expressionist Films”

  

MEMORY! Festival highlighting the stakes of Film Heritage at risk : One Myamar Classics to be restored in the coming months

Across the world films are at risk. One half of all films made before 1950 and over 80% made before 1929 are lost forever. Preserving films and enabling access to this heritage is a cause that is shared by all countries.

Festival organizers are currently working with the Ministry of Information on the restoration of a Myanmar Classics. A large fund raising operation is now under way, in order to enable those restorations.

One films has already been sent to Europe to L’immagine Ritrovata, Mya Ganaing (1934) by Maung Tin Maung. Process for fundraising is underway.