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8:57am GMT-03

Guardians of Memory: Social Technology and Audiovisual Heritage in the Ruins of Serra Pelada
Friday October 9, 2026 8:57am - 8:57am GMT-03
This proposal explores the consonance between the Social Technology of Memory (TSM) and the Design Method for Project and Resignification of Museum Spaces (MDPREM) as decolonial tools for audiovisual heritage management. The research investigates the Brazilian territory of Serra Pelada, a former gold mining camp historically stigmatized by extreme industrial extractivism. Instead of traditional top-down archiving, this approach transfers curatorial autonomy to marginalized communities, specifically focusing on former miners and local residents. By integrating TSM's active listening with MDPREM's pillars, the methodology transforms silenced narratives into active instruments of narrative justice. Ultimately, the project demonstrates how emotional design and social museology can redefine community-based archives as spaces of equity and dialogue. In Serra Pelada, the methodology guided the rescue, cataloging, and digitization of 417 historical audiovisual media from a local filmmaker, empowering 17 residents as "Guardians of Memory". Furthermore, the community implemented basic audiovisual preservation processes, including strict digitization standards and differentiated copies for both preservation and access. This initiative proves that true archival sustainability requires the emotional and political engagement of those who inhabit the territory, constituting a practical example of community audiovisual preservation models. Aligning with the conference theme "Screen Memories in Dialogue", this presentation reveals how marginalized groups can deconstruct structural erasure through self-representation. We conclude that the decentralization of audiovisual heritage is a fundamental step toward healing historical traumas and shaping inclusive futures.
Speakers
avatar for Rangel Benedito Sales de Almeida

Rangel Benedito Sales de Almeida

Expert Consultant in Museu da Pessoa (Museum of the Person), Museu da Pessoa (Museum of the Person)
Rangel Sales holds a Ph.D. in Design from the State University of Minas Gerais (UEMG), focusing on Emotional Design in the conception of museum spaces, a topic on which he has been conducting workshops and hackathons since 2017. He has a master's degree in Technological Education... Read More →
avatar for Marcelina das Graças de Almeida

Marcelina das Graças de Almeida

Full Professor at the State University of Minas Gerais (UEMG)., Universidade do Estado de Minas Gerais (UEMG) - State University of Minas Gerais (UEMG)
Marcelina das Graças de Almeida is a historian, researcher, and tenured professor at the State University of Minas Gerais (UEMG), holding a PhD in History from UFMG. A leading expert in funerary heritage and art history, her academic career is defined by the study of cemeteries as spaces of memory, art, and social practices, particularly within the context of Minas Gerais. As an author of numerous publications and an organizer of scientific events, she focuses on preserving cultura... Read More →
avatar for Felipe Rocha

Felipe Rocha

Coordinated the Collection of the Museu da Pessoa (Museum of the Person), Museu da Pessoa (Museum of the Person)
Historian and museologist (Corem4R 460-II) with experience in the areas of Archival Science and Museology, with an emphasis on social museology, oral history, digital archives and virtual museums. He holds a bachelor's and licentiate degree in History from the University of São Paulo... Read More →
avatar for Lucas Figueirêdo Torigoe

Lucas Figueirêdo Torigoe

Research Coordinator in Museu da Pessoa (Museum of the Person), Museu da Pessoa (Museum of the Person)
Graduated with a Bachelor's and Master's degree in History from FFLCH/USP. Research Coordinator at the Museu da Pessoa (Museum of the Person) (2022 - ). Undergraduate student in Literature at USP (2022 - ). Researcher in the field of oral history. Works using interview methods, editorial... Read More →
Friday October 9, 2026 8:57am - 8:57am GMT-03
Lygia Grandflour Room

9:00am GMT-03

Cinemateca da Quebrada: Reclaiming Audiovisual Memory from the Periphery
Friday October 9, 2026 9:00am - 9:30am GMT-03
Cinemateca da Quebrada is a community-based audiovisual archive created in the outskirts of São Paulo, Brazil, as a response to the historical erasure and misrepresentation of working-class and peripheral communities within official media archives.
The project focuses on collecting, digitising and activating films produced inside these territories, many of which have circulated through informal networks such as pirate DVD stands, independent productions and grassroots audiovisual initiatives. These images, often excluded from institutional preservation, constitute a vital part of contemporary audiovisual memory.
Rather than functioning as a traditional archive, Cinemateca da Quebrada operates as a living and collective platform. Through cineclubs, public screenings and educational actions, the archive is constantly reactivated in dialogue with the communities from which it emerges. In this sense, preservation is inseparable from circulation, and memory is understood as a dynamic and shared process.
The project also engages in transnational collaborations, notably with the Cinemathèque Idéale des Banlieues du Monde, fostering exchanges between peripheral territories in Brazil and France. These dialogues expand the understanding of audiovisual memory beyond national frameworks, highlighting common experiences of inequality, migration and resistance.
This proposal reflects on the challenges of building an archive from the margins: how to preserve without institutional support, how to legitimise informal images, and how to construct memory as a tool for political agency. By sharing this experience, the project contributes to rethinking archival practices in more inclusive, decentralised and community-driven ways.
Speakers
avatar for Lincoln Péricles

Lincoln Péricles

Director, Astúcia Filmes
Lincoln Péricles (aka LK) is a filmmaker, archivist and cultural organiser from Capão Redondo, a favela in São Paulo, Brazil, and the founder of Cinemateca da Quebrada, a community-based audiovisual archive dedicated to preserving and activating cinema produced in the peripheries.Developed... Read More →
Friday October 9, 2026 9:00am - 9:30am GMT-03
Oscarito Room

9:30am GMT-03

Constructed, Told, Spoken: A Counter History of Britain on TV - Looking back at a unique moment on British Television
Friday October 9, 2026 9:30am - 10:00am GMT-03
This presentation would be a review of a season delivered at the BFI entitled, Constructed, Told, Spoken: A counter history of Britain on TV, which retraced the establishment of Multicultural TV Units at the BBC, ITV, and Channel 4, in March 2026. My season told a chronological story of how this unique British phenomenon in television programming came to be, defining this timeline as a movement in television non-fiction. 


In this presentation, I intend to tell the story of the emergence of multicultural programming, illustrate how the season brought together a range of voices, and shed light on the conditions for establishing these units and the programming they provided for minorities in Britain. I will detail the archives I worked across and trace the emergence as it unfolded throughout the season.


The timeline is as follows: it began with the emergence of the BBC's immigrant programmes unit in the 1960's. Followed by a period of institutional absence for multicultural policy, during which anti-racist television was developed externally by activists and found a place on our screens through open-access slots in the 1970s. By the 1980s, a defined institutional lane had begun to emerge, peaking in the middle years with a clearly articulated political and social positioning grounded in community perspectives coached in this institutional voice. Ultimately, the season traced the movement's progression toward its eventual decline and the phasing out of multicultural units in the early 2000s.


My presentation will show the programmes and the development of this political and social position, as mirroring diversity in Britain, how it functioned as a counter-narrative to the news and how its preservation and rediscovery through the archive reframes this period.
Speakers
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Xavier Alexandre Pillai

TV Programmer, British Film Institute
Xavier Alexandre Pillai is a curator, writer, film programmer, filmmaker and photographer. He is the TV programmer at the British Film Institute, where he leads the broadcaster-and-streamer preview strand. He co-curates the BFI National Archive project State of Emergence: The Films... Read More →
Friday October 9, 2026 9:30am - 10:00am GMT-03
Lygia Grandflour Room

9:30am GMT-03

From an archive to a media brand: scaling access to collections
Friday October 9, 2026 9:30am - 10:00am GMT-03
Audiovisual materials are experienced through screens and speakers and in the 21st century these can be found in every home, class room and pocket, providing an opportunity to massively expand access to the audiovisual collections. For the past three years, the National Film and Sound Archive of Australia (NFSA) has been renewing its approach to collection sharing and contextualisation across key external channels including YouTube, Facebook and Instagram. In March 2026, NFSA released an entirely new website designed as an online audiovisual museum. It provides access to 5,500 items from the collection, with more to be added regularly, along with curatorial notes and longer form journalism exploring the stories behind the clips. Designed to be appealing to the broadest possible audiences, the website is a resource of Australian history, of the diversity and impact of audiovisual forms, and offers a fun way to relive pop culture memories. 


NFSA is Australia's national audiovisual collection. Collecting began in 1935 making it one of the longest established public collections in the world. Over the decades, collecting strategies have changed and adapted in response to technological and cultural shifts. Today, the collection includes almost 700,000 individual works that span all formats from celluloid to interactive digital, and from factual and news recordings to games, music, broadcast, sports, social media and advertising. With such a broad scope, the collection offers potential to all Australians for inspiration, learning, research and enjoyment.


This paper will show how NFSA developed its multi-channel content distribution strategy, from staffing structures to market research driven insights, rights management, audience development and platform build, and will provide a snapshot of user responses six months from the launch of the website.
Speakers
avatar for Patrick McIntyre

Patrick McIntyre

CEO, National Film and Sound Archive of Australia
Patrick McIntyre is the CEO of the National Film and Sound Archive of Australia. His career spans three decades in arts and cultural management in Australia including previous roles as Executive Director of Sydney Theatre Company, Associate Executive Director of The Australian Ballet... Read More →
Friday October 9, 2026 9:30am - 10:00am GMT-03
Oscarito Room

9:30am GMT-03

Reimagining Metadata: AI Driven Discovery and Documentation in the Olympic Archives
Friday October 9, 2026 9:30am - 10:00am GMT-03
The Images Sport AI Project is the second major phase of the IOC’s long‑term digital transformation of its archival ecosystem, following the successful migration from bespoke on‑premises systems to a cloud‑based, integrated architecture between 2021 and 2024. This foundation introduced seven interoperable platforms for preservation, access and analytics, and enabled the structured migration of more than 85,000 audiovisual assets and 928,000 photographs with full metadata. 
Launched in 2024 in alignment with the IOC AI Agenda, the Images Sport AI Project introduces state‑of‑the‑art artificial intelligence into both front‑end discovery and back‑end documentation workflows. Its dual objective is to enhance search capabilities in The Olympic Media Library (TOML) and accelerate metadata creation within the Media Asset Management system through automated tagging. 
Front‑end innovations include AI‑driven image and video similarity search, enabling users to retrieve visually related content that traditional text‑based descriptions cannot capture. A conversational search prototype extends this further by combining TOML metadata, multimodal search and IOC data, allowing natural‑language queries and richer discovery pathways. 
On the back end, automated tagging uses deep‑learning models are developed to generate sport‑specific vocabularies (actions, equipment, venues), general actions, logos, symbols and framing descriptors, while deliberately excluding athletes’ identities or emotions to ensure compliance with legal and ethical frameworks. Winter sports vocabularies form the basis for pilot deployments ahead of Milano Cortina 2026, with Summer sports following  for Dakar 2026 Youth Olympic Games and Los Angeles 2028 Olympic Games. 
The project directly addresses key questions about large‑scale infrastructure, automation, authority control and ethical metadata governance. It positions the IOC Archives as a global laboratory for innovation within Sport Archives, demonstrating how AI can strengthen discoverability, operational efficiency and long‑term stewardship across extensive heritage collections.
Speakers
avatar for Sabine Haller-Neumann

Sabine Haller-Neumann

Head of IOC Archives, Olympic Foundation for Culture and Heritage
Sabine Haller‑Neumann is Head of Archives at the Olympic Foundation for Culture and Heritage, where she oversees one of the world’s richest collections of Olympic photographs, moving images, sound archives and written records. With over eighteen years at the International Olympic... Read More →
Friday October 9, 2026 9:30am - 10:00am GMT-03
Grande Otelo Room

10:00am GMT-03

Development of an Archive Video Retrieval System Using CLIP and ANN Search on Keyframe Images
Friday October 9, 2026 10:00am - 10:30am GMT-03
This paper presents the development of a high-speed video search system based on image features for a large-scale video archive, NHK Archives, without relying on manually created metadata. Conventional video retrieval systems typically require extensive manual metadata annotation. In contrast, the proposed system extracts still images from video clips and computes their features using the CLIP model, enabling multimodal search with text or images to retrieve semantically related scenes.
To achieve practical response times over a massive dataset, the system employs approximate nearest neighbor (ANN) search. In addition, a prototype function was developed to automatically generate program structures by combining speech recognition and large language models (LLMs), improving the interpretability of search results by clearly indicating the corresponding programs and scenes.
The system adopts a hybrid architecture in which computationally intensive processes—such as clip extraction, CLIP feature computation, and speech recognition—are executed on-premise, while structure generation and search operations are performed in the cloud. This approach significantly enhances the accessibility of video content while reducing the cost of metadata creation for large-scale video archives.
Speakers
avatar for Tomoya Kusunoki

Tomoya Kusunoki

Media System Engineer, Japan Broadcasting Corporation
Tomoya Kusunoki is an engineer at Japan Broadcasting Corporation (NHK), working at the Engineering and System Solutions Center. My work focuses on broadcast systems, media workflows, and archive-related technologies and systems.
Friday October 9, 2026 10:00am - 10:30am GMT-03
Grande Otelo Room

10:00am GMT-03

Fan practices and the preservation of Brazilian TV memory: curation, archivability, legitimation, and disputes
Friday October 9, 2026 10:00am - 10:30am GMT-03
Television historians inevitably have to contend with gaps when examining the audiovisual archives of broadcasters and preservation institutions, especially when searching for records from the medium’s early decades. However, this is a communication technology — and a domestic device — whose development has enabled audiences themselves to engage in practices of capturing and archiving content, a dynamic that has expanded significantly in the online environment.


Today, many TV fans make use of collective digital video-sharing platforms to upload recordings of old programs, originally captured on VHS tapes or DVDs. Some of these users have become known for this type of activity, at times receiving audiovisual materials from professionals who once worked behind the scenes in television. Not infrequently, clips made available by these fans are also used in contemporary productions focused on the careers of television personalities. Even the disputes between these viewer-archivists and active TV networks — dissatisfied with having recordings of their productions shared by third parties — ultimately attest to the recognition achieved by these fans, who are transformed into “professional-amateurs” as they demonstrate competencies related to the history of television in Brazil.


This paper discusses how the archives of viewer-archivists, as well as fandom practices attentive to past content made available by TV channels on their over-the-top platforms, have contributed to the preservation and narration of Brazilian television memory. Although fan archives are shaped by a curatorial dynamic guided by personal taste and affective investments, they constitute important sources for researchers due to their potential to house records that are no longer present in the broadcasters’ own archives. Moreover, fans dedicated to monitoring the streaming catalogs of TV networks shed light on the very archiving dynamics adopted by media conglomerates over time, revealing continuities, gaps, and reconfigurations in the criteria used for the preservation of television archives.
Speakers
avatar for Lucas Martins Néia

Lucas Martins Néia

Professor, Senac University Center - Santo Amaro Campus (CAS, Brazil)
Lucas Martins Néia is a screenwriter, playwright, theatre director, and art educator. He holds a PhD in Communications from the University of São Paulo (USP, Brazil); his PhD thesis led to the publication of How TV Fiction Built a Nation: A Cultural History of the Brazilian Tel... Read More →
Friday October 9, 2026 10:00am - 10:30am GMT-03
Lygia Grandflour Room

10:00am GMT-03

When Archives Come Alive: Montage, Memory and Intergenerational Connection in Brazilian Broadcast Promotion
Friday October 9, 2026 10:00am - 10:30am GMT-03
In contemporary broadcast television, audiovisual archives have moved well beyond preservation and historical reference. When placed in the hands of editors and curators working within promotional content, they become powerful narrative tools capable of connecting audiences across generations through emotion, memory and cultural identity. This presentation offers a practice-based perspective on how archival footage can be reinterpreted through montage editing to create new narratives that resonate with contemporary audiences.


Drawing from case studies developed at TV Globo, Brazil's largest broadcast network, the presentation examines promotional campaigns that combined archival footage from multiple decades to generate emotional continuity between past and present. These include national campaigns such as the FIFA World Cup, the Olympic Games, Formula 1, the 70th anniversary of Brazilian telenovelas, and the 50th anniversary of Roberto Carlos' iconic year-end television special. Each of these events carries a strong intergenerational dimension, having been experienced by different audiences over time.


A central element of this process is the curatorial work that begins before the edit: navigating broadcast archives in search of emblematic gestures, movements and emotionally charged moments with the potential to resonate across time. Once identified, these fragments are joined through match cut montage, transforming disconnected historical scenes into a single, continuous flow in which past and present coexist.
The presentation argues that montage editing functions as a form of cultural mediation that activates archival memory and reinforces broadcast television as a living repository of collective experiences. Rooted in a Brazilian context, it contributes to broader global discussions in the field, showing how the creative reuse of archival footage can introduce younger generations to cultural moments they never witnessed firsthand and transforming the broadcast archive into a gateway for intergenerational discovery.
Speakers
avatar for Eduardo Calvet Corrêa

Eduardo Calvet Corrêa

Trailer Editor, TV Globo
Eduardo Calvet is a researcher in audiovisual narrative and holds a Master’s degree in Creative Media (PPGMC) from the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ). His academic practice centers on the relationship between editing, memory, and archival images as tools for constructing... Read More →
Friday October 9, 2026 10:00am - 10:30am GMT-03
Oscarito Room

10:30am GMT-03

5W-Driven Metadata Structures for Automated Cataloguing of Journalistic Stories: Challenges and Opportunities in EventOriented Metadata Architectures
Friday October 9, 2026 10:30am - 11:00am GMT-03
We present an initial methodological framework for representing events in the automated cataloguing of journalistic audiovisual content. Integrated into a broader research project on the automation of document analysis in newsrooms, this study examines how eventbased metadata can be effectively modelled using controlled vocabularies, without requiring structural modifications to existing MAM indexing
systems. The approach operationalizes the 5W model—adapted here as 4W + 1H—through lightweight, nonontological solutions suitable for legacy documentation environments.


The research draws on a corpus of more than 5,000 news items related to the 2024 DANA weather event in the Valencian Community. Using a representative sample, the study analyses three types of documentary elements—documents, segments, and stories—to identify common metadata patterns, assess their potential for reuse in cascading automated workflows, and determine the structural limits of storylevel aggregation in news production contexts.


The results reveal persistent issues such as overindexing, multisemantic fields, weak traceability, and inconsistent responses to the 5W framework. The study examines whether advanced semanticweb structures (ontologies, knowledge graphs) are necessary, or whether enhancing existing controlled vocabularies and refining metadata field architectures can provide sufficient robustness and operational value.


The findings underscore the need to improve metadata structures whose semantics depend both on their formal design and on their functional placement within the document record, as key factors for enhancing retrieval, consistency, and automation in audiovisual news cataloguing.
Speakers
avatar for Ferran Arago Puigventos

Ferran Arago Puigventos

Audiovisual Documentalist, CCMA-3Cat (former TV3. Catalonian Public Broadcaster)
Graduated in Contemporary History and in Information and Documentation Science, I have worked as an audiovisual archivist atthe Catalan public broadcaster CCMA3Cat for more than two decades. My experience includes documentary processing across the various areas of television production... Read More →
Friday October 9, 2026 10:30am - 11:00am GMT-03
Grande Otelo Room

10:30am GMT-03

Beyond the Gallery Wall: Creative Collaboration with Audiovisual Archives in Community Spaces
Friday October 9, 2026 10:30am - 11:00am GMT-03
RTÉ Archives has, for many years, developed meaningful partnerships with cultural institutions, community organisations and memory networks across Ireland and the Diaspora. Central to this work is a commitment to meeting communities where they are, recognising that meaningful engagement with audiovisual heritage happens both in physical public spaces and online environments that people already use and trust. Through collaboration with museums, libraries, cultural centres and creative community initiatives, RTÉ Archives is able to open the collections of Ireland’s public service broadcaster in ways that cannot be achieved alone, supporting engagement and dialogue across all island of Ireland and diasporic contexts.
Aligned with FIAT/IFTA’s 2026 theme, “Audiovisual Memories as Spaces of Dialogue”, the presentation illustrates how cross‑institutional and community partnerships enable audiovisual archives to function as dynamic civic resources. Working across physical public spaces, online environments and specially designed, curated applications, these initiatives demonstrate how innovative uses of audiovisual archival collections can support inclusive dialogue and meaningful engagement with shared histories across different communities, sectors and generations.
Speakers
avatar for Brid Dooley

Brid Dooley

Head of Archives, RTÉ
Bríd Dooley is Head of Archives for RTÉ, Ireland’s national public service media organisation, with a career spanning over 30 years in both the UK and Ireland, as well as being an active member of a number of professional international association networks.

As Department Head, she is currently focused on the development of the digital archive as part of RTÉ’s overall digital transformation strategy, ensuring the long-term preservation of all legacy, current and future digital collections which span over nine decades of continuous... Read More →
Friday October 9, 2026 10:30am - 11:00am GMT-03
Oscarito Room

10:30am GMT-03

Visible/Impermanent: How Broadcast Archives Narrate Permanence, Negotiate Loss, and Appear (or Disappear) in Public
Friday October 9, 2026 10:30am - 11:00am GMT-03
As concern mounts regarding the global climate crisis, the environmental impact of audio-visual archiving has been widely recognised as an urgent concern. Thus, it has become vital that archival institutions critically reflect on their praxis, their responsibility to the environment and to memory, and their narration of archival loss. In dissecting this, a pervasive tension is revealed between the professional aspiration for permanence and the stark reality of precarity. Unfortunately, this dialogic gap remains underexamined, particularly in the public-facing contexts where archives construct their identities. In response, the project at the heart of this presentation investigates how permanence, visibility and ephemerality are narrativised and communicated publicly by six FIAT/IFTA member institutions. Through a systematised audit of accessible catalogues, official communications, mission statements, websites, and social media presences, our goal is to better understand how these archives represent their purpose, negotiate discourses of loss, and make themselves visible (or invisible) in the digital landscape. 
This year marks the 5th and 10th anniversaries of two devastating fires at the Cinemateca Brasileira facility (2016 and 2021). With the FIAT/IFTA conference being held at an institution so familiar with archival loss, we feel it is both poignant and necessary for a discussion of permanence, visibility and ephemerality to hold a powerful presence in this space. Further contextualised by an increasingly critical climate reality and a plethora of rising geopolitical tensions, we also believe that in 2026, the notions of loss, legacy and mortality are more palpable than ever. In turn, the recent emergence of high-concept ultra-long-term media storage technologies, such as DNA-based data solutions, provides a stark contrast. As mass-digitisation projects and novel experimental technologies tease the potential of more permanent futures for cultural memory, we propose to initiate a dialogue between the institutions at the very heart of these debates.
Speakers
avatar for Ester Bovard

Ester Bovard

PhD Student, York University
Ester Bovard is an archival film scholar and writer based in Toronto. Currently pursuing a PhD at York University, her research explores the effects of digitalization on the negotiation of collective memory in El Salvador. A graduate of the MA programme in Preservation & Presentation... Read More →
avatar for Amber Mota

Amber Mota

PhD Researcher, University of the West of England
Amber Mota is a PhD researcher at the University of the West of England. Her research explores emerging archival technologies and post-permanence alternatives for audio-visual preservation practice. She is interested in deconstructing technological solutionism and advocating for sustainable... Read More →
Friday October 9, 2026 10:30am - 11:00am GMT-03
Lygia Grandflour Room

11:00am GMT-03

Morning Break
Friday October 9, 2026 11:00am - 11:30am GMT-03

Friday October 9, 2026 11:00am - 11:30am GMT-03
Grande Otelo Foyer

11:30am GMT-03

Curator, Producer, and Connector: The New Role of the Archive Professional at Globo's TV
Friday October 9, 2026 11:30am - 12:00pm GMT-03

The Archive establishes itself as a living space for creation, innovation, and value generation. In a landscape driven by artificial intelligence, a new form of leadership emerges: the Archive professional who also acts as a content producer, strategic curator, and connector within the media ecosystem.
With the support of AI, knowledge that was once built exclusively through manual descriptions expands. Technologies begin to uncover relationships, contexts, and opportunities hidden within content. This professional understands the Archive as an integral part of the media production process.
All of this happens without losing what is essential: preserving valuable material, caring for raw footage, maintaining organization, and defining what should be kept as heritage and collective memory.
The future of the Archive does not break with its foundations—it amplifies them. And it positions this professional as a bridge between memory, technology, and the creation of new futures.

Speakers
avatar for Felipe Santos Silva

Felipe Santos Silva

Archive Coordinator, GLOBO TV
Felipe Santos is Archive Coordinator at Globo, based in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. With over 16 years at the company, he began his career in 2010 as a Content Researcher for Globo and Globosat.
Throughout his professional journey, he has specialized in the management of archive professionals and large historical collections, leading teams responsible for preserving some of Brazil’s most significant television holdings. His work focuses on preservation, digitization, curatorship... Read More →
avatar for Nassira Brito Antonio Souza

Nassira Brito Antonio Souza

Archive Coordinator, GLOBO TV
Nassira Brito is a journalist with an MBA in People Management and a strong passion for people and archives, where she previously worked as a Researcher. Currently serving as Archive Coordinator at Grupo Globo, she brings together leadership, people management, and the preservation... Read More →
Friday October 9, 2026 11:30am - 12:00pm GMT-03
Oscarito Room

11:30am GMT-03

Preservation of 16mm films "Gugusse style"
Friday October 9, 2026 11:30am - 12:00pm GMT-03
Since 2023, the Caracol Television audiovisual archive has been working on the technical verification and digitization of its 16mm film collection. This includes more than 3,000 newsreels and program rushes that remained unseen or unrecognizable for generations of viewers for over 50 years.
In partnership with the Faculty of Arts at Javeriana University, we have been working on an unprecedented process: digitization using a Gugusse Roller, a "handmade" technique that has allowed us to uncover images of our country from the 1960s and 70s. With the support of visual arts students, we have begun a training program that encompasses all stages of working with this type of material: verification, preparation, digitization, digital preservation, and licensing for creative projects.


This presentation will not only describe the details of the process but will also highlight the use of open-source technology to overcome the lack of a scanner. In addition, we will reflect on the importance of creating pedagogical processes for creative uses of the archive in our context.
Speakers
avatar for Luisa Fernanda Ordóñez Ortegón

Luisa Fernanda Ordóñez Ortegón

Director of audiovisual archive, Caracol Televisión
Historian of the moving image and audiovisual archivist. She is currently the director of the audiovisual archive of Caracol Televisión. She holds an MA in Preservation and Presentation of the Moving Image from the University of Amsterdam, with additional training in best practices... Read More →
Friday October 9, 2026 11:30am - 12:00pm GMT-03
Lygia Grandflour Room

11:30am GMT-03

Beyond data supply: audiovisual archives as builders of Public AI
Friday October 9, 2026 11:30am - 12:30pm GMT-03
Artificial intelligence is rapidly becoming a primary interface to knowledge and culture. Audiovisual archives therefore cannot remain passive observers. They steward some of the richest records of public life: broadcast history, oral testimony, performance, news, memory and cultural expression. As AI systems increasingly mediate discovery, interpretation and reuse, archives face shared challenges around extraction, invisibility, misrepresentation, governance and reciprocity.
This panel frames these challenges through the concept of Public AI: an approach to AI that serves the public interest rather than purely commercial logics. For audiovisual heritage, this means three concrete things. First, public assets: archival data, metadata, tools and standards should remain as open, interoperable and reusable as possible, reducing dependence on closed platforms. Second, public purposes: AI should support access, interpretation, education, participation and creative reuse of audiovisual heritage, rather than merely mining archives as raw material. Third, public oversight: decisions about how archival content is used in AI, under what conditions, and with what safeguards, must remain subject to meaningful public accountability.
Together, these principles offer a practical alternative to extractive AI models. They position audiovisual archives not just as data providers, but as institutions that can shape more democratic and trustworthy AI futures.
In this panel, three speakers will explore how audiovisual archives can contribute to Public AI through data stewardship, contextualisation, standards, rights-aware access and collaborative governance. The discussion builds on the Alignment Assembly “Culture for AI” [1] and follow-up work linked to the Data Space for Cultural Heritage and the European Collaborative Cloud for Cultural Heritage.
Participants will gain concrete insights into how audiovisual archives can respond strategically to AI, including practical perspectives on metadata, rights, access, standards and collaboration that are directly relevant to the FIAT/IFTA community.
[1] https://www.dataspace-culturalheritage.eu/en/news/discover-our-new-publication-on-artificial-intelligence-and-the-data-space
Speakers
avatar for Johan Oomen

Johan Oomen

Head of Research, Netherlands Institute for Sound & Vision
Johan Oomen is Research Director at the Netherlands Institute for Sound & Vision and a researcher at Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam. With an academic background in Media Studies and Information Science, he has spent more than two decades working at the intersection of cultural heri... Read More →
Friday October 9, 2026 11:30am - 12:30pm GMT-03
Grande Otelo Room

12:00pm GMT-03

Behind Every Crime, a File: The Power of Archives in True Crime
Friday October 9, 2026 12:00pm - 12:30pm GMT-03
The Importance of Archives in Non-Fiction True Crime Series
The true crime genre has become one of the most widely consumed formats in contemporary audiovisual culture. From classic documentaries to series on digital platforms, one of its essential characteristics is the use of archival materials: police recordings, news footage, trial tapes, photographs, home videos, or excerpts from television programs. These elements are not merely visual resources; they form the foundation that provides credibility, depth, and legitimacy to criminal storytelling. I will talk about 
  1. Archives as a guarantee of authenticity
  2. Archives as a narrative tool
  3. Archives and collective memory
  4. Archives as a space of power and ethics
  5. Archives as an instrument of public truth
  6. The role of the archivist in non-fiction true crime series




Speakers
avatar for Montserrat Bailac

Montserrat Bailac

Documentalist. responsible for historical archive, CCMA- 3CAT
Documentalist with over 40 years experience in archivist and documentation research. Responsible for the Historic Archive at CCMA-3Cat since 2015.  Experience covers research in different subjects and archives in Spain, and world-wide, archives on-line, maintaining documental and... Read More →
Friday October 9, 2026 12:00pm - 12:30pm GMT-03
Oscarito Room

12:30pm GMT-03

Access and Dissemination of the Empresa Brasil de Comunicação Collection: Management Challenges
Friday October 9, 2026 12:30pm - 1:00pm GMT-03
A significant portion of the collection managed by Empresa Brasil de Comunicação (EBC), a federal public broadcasting company, was produced before the company was established. The state-owned company was created by Law No. 11,652 of April 7, 2008, and all assets previously managed by the Roquette Pinto Educational Communication Association (Acerp) and Radiobrás were transferred to EBC. Although the transfer of assets was provided for by law, this was not sufficient to avoid questions regarding the ownership of this collection. In addition to the legal aspects, the lack of existing documentation on the audiovisual and radio works created challenges for management, particularly regarding licensing, access, and distribution.
The growing interest among audiovisual professionals, teachers, researchers, and students in the content produced over the course of 100 years of Brazilian public broadcasting history calls for solutions to existing challenges and strategic decision-making to enable access to and dissemination of this collection.
Accordingly, the purpose of this presentation is to share the experience of the Archive and Research Management Department (GARPE)—which oversees EBC’s collection—in addressing these challenges and the measures being taken to find solutions that ensure broader access, dissemination, and licensing, not only for students and professionals in the audiovisual industry but for society as a whole.
Speakers
avatar for Maria da Conceição Carnevale

Maria da Conceição Carnevale

Collection and Research Manager at EBC, Empresa Brasil de Comunicação
Maria da Conceição Carnevale holds a Master’s in Communication and Information and is a specialist in Archival Planning (UFF) and Knowledge Management (CRIE). With over 20 years of experience, she has worked with prestigious institutions including the National Archives, Infoglobo... Read More →
Friday October 9, 2026 12:30pm - 1:00pm GMT-03
Oscarito Room

12:30pm GMT-03

After Memory, Before Disappearance: Madeja and the Care of Time
Friday October 9, 2026 12:30pm - 1:00pm GMT-03
This piece explores how the Madeja Archive was created and how it has developed over time. Madeja isn’t just any archive, it’s a dynamic, evolving collection housed within the Fundación de Arte Contemporáneo (FAC) in Uruguay. It all began in the early 2000s, driven by a genuine sense of urgency among artists and curators. They noticed that fragile audiovisual works from the late ’70s onward, recorded on U-Matic, VHS, Betacam, MiniDV, Hi8, and even film, were slowly deteriorating and at risk of disappearing forever.
But Madeja was never intended to be a cold, neutral storage room. From its inception, it was political, personal, and even a bit defiant. The archive emerged from moments when artists and curators discovered their own work decaying on shelves or realized that no one in Uruguay was supporting the preservation of independent audiovisual art. There were no public policies, no safety nets. Madeja approached preservation not only as a technical solution, but as a form of care, a gesture of resistance against being lost or erased.
Time operates differently within Madeja. It isn’t a neat, linear timeline. Each piece in the collection carries at least three layers of time (each layer occurring decades apart): 1. the moment the artist created it, 2. the moment it joined the archive, and 3. the moment someone revisits it to reuse or reinterpret it. Madeja preserves everything: tapes, boxes, handwritten labels, curated playlists, notes from the era. It isn’t just about digital files, it’s about maintaining the complexity and context of each object and the web of relationships around it. The archive ends up resembling a tangled skein (a “madeja” in Spanish) where different eras, technologies, and emotions are intertwined.
This presentation situates Madeja at the heart of important discussions about memory, media archaeology, and the ecological politics of digital preservation. It examines what happens when data exists within fragile environments, or when issues of power and funding (or the lack thereof) determine what survives. By emphasizing collective authorship, marginalized voices, and activist modes of archiving, Madeja understands memory not as a finished narrative, but as something always evolving. It’s about creating room for future curators, artists, and educators to keep these works alive and relevant, regardless of how much time goes by.
Speakers
avatar for Anaclara Talento Acosta

Anaclara Talento Acosta

Artist & reasearcher, Fundación de Arte Contemporáneo
Anaclara Talento Acosta, MFAUruguay, 1988.Post Contemporary artist, researcher, and archival specialist. Bachelor's and Master's of Arts – Plastic and Visual Arts (Uruguayan University of the Republic - UdelaR. National School of Fine Arts Institute - IENBA, 2007 – 2016). Master's... Read More →
Friday October 9, 2026 12:30pm - 1:00pm GMT-03
Lygia Grandflour Room

12:30pm GMT-03

Governing Deepfakes from the Inside: Broadcasters as Upstream Actors in the Protection of Audiovisual Archives
Friday October 9, 2026 12:30pm - 1:00pm GMT-03
Audiovisual archives are sovereign infrastructures of cultural memory. They are not merely collections of content: they are the evidentiary foundation of public discourse, the raw material of historical knowledge, and a shared resource whose integrity is a condition of trust in media institutions. Generative AI and deepfakes can pose a structural threat to this integrity — not only by enabling the production of false content, but by corroding the epistemic status of archival material itself. A manipulated archive is no longer a reliable source; it is a liability.
This paper argues that broadcasters occupy a distinctive position in the governance of AI-generated deepfakes: neither as technology providers nor as distribution platforms, but as custodians of audiovisual heritage with editorial responsibility, reputational capital, and existing technical capacity. From this position, broadcasters can act as upstream governance actors — intervening at the point of content production rather than relying exclusively on downstream detection, fact-checking, or user-labelling. The central claim is that voluntary adoption of content-marking standards (watermarking, C2PA/IPTC metadata, provenance certification) by broadcasters constitutes a form of shared technological capacity that strengthens the infrastructure sovereignty of audiovisual archives.
The paper develops its argument through three moves. First, it situates broadcasters within a polycentric governance framework (drawing on Ansell et al., 2023 and Floridi et al., 2024, 2026), distinguishing this approach from the normative inflation critique: the effectiveness of broadcaster-led governance derives not from adding further voluntary principles to an already saturated landscape, but from the specificity of institutional incentives and the concreteness of available technical tools. Second, it analyses Article 50 of the EU AI Act and the draft Code of Practice on AI-generated content transparency (currently under finalisation) as a case study of how regulatory frameworks interact with — and depend upon — horizontal governance by media institutions. Third, it addresses the question of transferability: drawing on critical perspectives, the paper asks what conditions must be met for broadcaster-led marking standards to function as genuine shared capacity across diverse institutional and infrastructural contexts.The argument is grounded in a body of emerging literature on AI governance, media self-regulation, and archival provenance standards, and engages directly with initiatives such as the EBU's sovereign AI framework, and the guidelines developed by the Archival Producers Alliance. 
Speakers
avatar for Giovanni Marra

Giovanni Marra

Own law firm and co-founder INDEX Archive Studio, Avvocato Giovanni Marra - INDEX Archive Studio
Giovanni Marra is a lawyer, specialised in corporate law, media and intellectual property law, with a focus on artificial intelligence law. He holds teaching appointments in Media Law and Intellectual Property at the University of Udine and at Roma Tre – Tor Vergata University and... Read More →
Friday October 9, 2026 12:30pm - 1:00pm GMT-03
Grande Otelo Room

1:00pm GMT-03

Lunch Break
Friday October 9, 2026 1:00pm - 2:00pm GMT-03

Friday October 9, 2026 1:00pm - 2:00pm GMT-03
Grande Otelo Foyer

2:00pm GMT-03

Preserving Continuity Through Change: Lessons from a Large-Scale MAM Consolidation Project
Friday October 9, 2026 2:00pm - 2:30pm GMT-03
When Reuters News Agency acquired the commercial archive licensing operation Screenocean, it inherited two distinct media asset management (MAM) systems. Maintaining these parallel environments — each shaped by its own metadata schemes, cataloguing practices, and operational workflows — introduced growing risks to preservation, discoverability, rights management, and long‑term sustainability. 
The challenge was twofold: migrating a large, active audiovisual archive while preserving the integrity and context of its assets. This paper outlines the methodologies used to address this challenge, including metadata mapping, risk assessment, and workflow redesign. 
This presentation examines the unification of these MAM environments as a case study in preservation through migration. Although driven by technical necessity, the consolidation was equally an exercise in ensuring continuity of archival stewardship amid organisational and technological change. 
Beyond large-scale asset migration, the paper explores effective approaches to MAM consolidation, including metadata harmonisation, duplication management, and the preservation of contextual and rights information that give archival materials their meaning and value. 
The project offers a practical case study for archives facing merger, restructuring, or infrastructure renewal, highlighting key lessons related to preservation, access, and sustainability. 
Speakers
avatar for Alistair Blake

Alistair Blake

Senior Manager, Archive, Reuters News & Media
Alistair Blake currently heads the Archive Team at Reuters News Agency, where he leads archival research and archive operations, including large‑scale digitisation programmes. His expertise includes digital asset management, rights and licensing, metadata, and information manag... Read More →
Friday October 9, 2026 2:00pm - 2:30pm GMT-03
Grande Otelo Room

2:00pm GMT-03

Reactivating Audiovisual Archives: Pedagogy, Montage and Women’s Histories at FGV CPDOC
Friday October 9, 2026 2:00pm - 2:30pm GMT-03
This presentation discusses the activation of audiovisual archives through pedagogical and creative practices developed in the Audiovisual Production Workshops at FGV CPDOC (Brazil), which completed ten years in 2024. The workshops are based on one of the largest collections of personal archives in Latin America and promote the production of short films using archival materials as both source and medium.
Since 2023, the workshops have been part of the project “New Perspectives on the Archive: Visuality, Circulation and Education in Women’s Archives” (FAPERJ/CNPq), focusing on women’s histories and the critical re-reading of archival collections. Through a practice-led approach, participants engage with archival documents not only as historical evidence but as material for reinterpretation, montage, and narrative construction.
The presentation examines selected films produced within this framework to explore how archival images are reactivated through editing processes that negotiate between institutional constraints, creative agency, and pedagogical goals. Particular attention is given to the tensions between technical, aesthetic, and ethical dimensions of archival reuse, including issues of visibility, silencing, metadata limitations, and representational bias.
By situating the classroom and the editing room as spaces of research, the paper argues that audiovisual practices can transform the archive from a site of preservation into a dynamic field of interpretation and circulation. In this context, montage becomes a critical operation that not only re-signifies images but also challenges dominant narratives, especially in relation to gender and the historical marginalization of women in archival systems.
The case study highlights how collaborative filmmaking processes can expand archival access, generate new forms of public engagement, and reposition audiovisual archives as active agents in the production of knowledge.
Speakers
avatar for Thais Continentino Blank

Thais Continentino Blank

Vice-Director and Associate Professor, School of Social Sciences, FGV CPDOC; Professor and Researcher, Graduate Program in History, Politics and Cultural Heritage (FGV CPDOC); Academic Coordinator and Editing Professor, Graduate Program in Documentary Cinema (FGV)., Fundação Getulio Vargas CPDOC
Thais Continentino Blank holds a PhD in Communication and Culture from the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro and in Cultural and Social History of Art from Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne (2015), as well as an MA in Communication and Culture (UFRJ, 2010) and a BA in Film... Read More →
Friday October 9, 2026 2:00pm - 2:30pm GMT-03
Lygia Grandflour Room

2:00pm GMT-03

The diversity of content under the responsibility of Cedoc / TV Cultura
Friday October 9, 2026 2:00pm - 2:30pm GMT-03
The TV Cultura Documentation Centre (1969) brings together an unusual variety of materials for a TV archive. Cedoc is responsible for implementing preservation, cataloguing, digitization, and dissemination actions for the collection under its care.The first challenge of the Cedoc Modernization Project, which began in 2021, was to separate each media and item, with the goal of safeguarding the originals represented by a vast range of materials to be preserved. The collection contains nearly 1 million items, including documents, props and scene mock-ups, objects and models that make up sets and studio scenery, a pinacotheca with sculptures and paintings from different eras created by artists now recognized for TV program scenery, a technological arsenal for telling the history of TV, up to thousands of open-reel videotapes with recordings of radio stations AM and FM, thousands of videotapes from Quadruplex to the last formats, 16mm films, a photographic collection documenting the history of TV, and the making of hundreds of programs, and a library containing publications used as sources by the TV program production teams.The purpose of this presentation is to show how each sector of Cedoc relates with each other and to current TV production, how the archive is transformed into digital media and reused for new TV productions, and what strategies are used for access and licensing, considering the paradigms of audiovisual archives in the digital age. Also, the implementation of the media asset management, especially when data came from all sorts of databases developed internally, at different times, by the Engineering Department, to support audiovisual content search tools archived in the digital repository.
Speakers
avatar for Ligia Farias

Ligia Farias

Head of Documentation Centre, TV Cultura
Ligia Farias is Head of the Documentation Centre at TV Cultura/Fundação Padre Anchieta, where she oversees audiovisual, and archival collections, as well as access and licensing, since 2020.

She has over a decade of experience at the Cinemateca Brasileira, working in project management, institutional relations, and access to audiovisual archives. Her work includes structuring user services and facilitating access to preserved audiovisual materials, alongside experience... Read More →
avatar for Patricia de Filippi

Patricia de Filippi

Coordinator, TV Cultura
Patricia de Filippi has worked in the field of photographic and audiovisual preservation — film and television — since 1984. She holds a degree in Architecture and Urbanism and received specialized training at the New York City Municipal Archives and the George Eastman Museum... Read More →
Friday October 9, 2026 2:00pm - 2:30pm GMT-03
Oscarito Room

2:30pm GMT-03

From Obsolescence to Digital: Large-Scale Betacam Digitization at Grupo Globo’s Archive
Friday October 9, 2026 2:30pm - 3:00pm GMT-03

The rapid obsolescence of analog media and playback equipment represents a critical risk to the preservation of audiovisual archives. This paper presents a large-scale digitization project of Betacam tapes, starting with an initial scope of 50,000 media items, developed as a strategy to mitigate this risk and enhance the value of the collection.
To meet these demands, the FlyPack solution (by company Meta Martis) was adopted, enabling greater efficiency in the digitization workflow, optimized resource usage, and quality control within a high-volume environment. The proposal addresses the technical and operational challenges involved in the mass conversion of analog content to digital formats.
As a result, the project is expected to enrich the archive and expand opportunities for access, use, and reuse of the content. Digitization also paves the way for the application of artificial intelligence, enabling new forms of analysis, organization, and value creation, while fostering future opportunities within the audiovisual ecosystem.
Speakers
avatar for Rafael Allam Dutra de Castro

Rafael Allam Dutra de Castro

Archive Specialist, Globo TV
Rafael Castro holds a degree in Archival Science and an MBA in Project Management, and has been working at Grupo Globo since 2010. Throughout his career, he has worked as an archivist with a focus on the storage, organization, and preservation of audiovisual content. He currently... Read More →
Friday October 9, 2026 2:30pm - 3:00pm GMT-03
Grande Otelo Room

2:30pm GMT-03

When the Archive Resists: Democracy, Obsolete Media, and Possible Futures for Museums of Image and Sound
Friday October 9, 2026 2:30pm - 3:00pm GMT-03
Based on the preliminary survey of the film holdings of the Museu da Imagem e do Som de Campinas (MIS-Campinas), this paper discusses how audiovisual archives within safeguarding institutions are currently strained by material deterioration, technological obsolescence, and new digital regimes of visibility. While photochemical and magnetic formats preserve traces of documentary, educational, amateur, and dissident practices that expanded democratic horizons of audiovisual culture, their survival is threatened not only by physical decay but also by exclusion from contemporary systems of description, circulation, and intelligibility. In this sense, the audiovisual archive is understood not as a mere repository, but as a space of arkhē: an instance of origin, consignation, and power in which it is decided what may be remembered, accessed, and activated in the future.
The research combines survey, identification, cataloguing, cleaning, and remapping of the film collection, approaching these procedures as critical practices of mediation and legibility. The case of MIS-Campinas makes it possible to question the position of local and regional archives in the face of the urgent need to preserve obsolete media while simultaneously building archival networks capable of connecting collections, communities, researchers, and public policies.
The paper argues that the future of these collections depends not only on digitization, but also on safeguarding policies, critical metadata, mediated exhibition practices, and cooperative infrastructures capable of resisting algorithmic standardization and the marginalization of non-hegemonic repertoires. From this perspective, MIS institutions may be rethought as polymorphic museums: hybrid spaces in which archive, exhibition, education, and community are articulated as forms of material, symbolic, and political resistance.
Speakers
avatar for Alexandre Sônego de Carvalho

Alexandre Sônego de Carvalho

Coordinator, Centro Interativo de Ciências - SME - Prefeitura Municipal de Campinas
Alexandre Sônego holds a PhD in Education, Art, and Cultural History from Universidade Presbiteriana Mackenzie, including a sandwich period at University of Leeds in the United Kingdom. He is currently pursuing a degree in Museology and holds a Master’s in Education. He served... Read More →
avatar for Fernanda da Rocha Parrado

Fernanda da Rocha Parrado

Researcher / Film Archivist, Universidade de São Paulo (USP)
Fernanda Parrado is a filmmaker and film archivist born and raised in Brazil. Member of the Brazilian Film Academy, she has directed and preserved many national and international films at organizations such as Cinemateca Brasileira, Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences Gold... Read More →
Friday October 9, 2026 2:30pm - 3:00pm GMT-03
Oscarito Room

2:30pm GMT-03

Counter-archive of Women: Mapping, Preservation, and Diffusion of Short Films from Brazil’s Military Dictatorship
Friday October 9, 2026 2:30pm - 3:30pm GMT-03
The panel proposes a reflection on preservation and access to films made by women in Brazil, focusing on short films. Nayla Guerra presents a survey of a filmography she compiled, comprising 222 short films directed by 121 women during the Brazilian military dictatorship, and analyzes the importance and challenges involved in recovering these works. Often regarded as a format of less cultural, social, and historical importance, short films tend to receive less attention and are frequently overlooked when decisions are made regarding preservation, restoration, and access initiatives. Many of these works are lost, damaged, or available only in analog formats, making access to shorts made by women during this period particularly difficult.
Next, Carolina Vergotti presents a study on the preservation of these 222 shorts, including the conditions of the films in the Cinemateca Brasileira’s collection, analyzed using the methodologies adopted by the institution. The diagnostic aims to demonstrate the gaps in the collection, the risks faced by some of these films, as well as possible paths for the preservation and access to these works for restoration, research, and diffusion.
Finally, Patrícia Machado introduces a recent initiative she has been leading for the digitization and expanded access to these works. She presents a platform created by her project that provides what she calls the “biographies of films”, making information about the production contexts of these films, how they circulated, which archives hold them, and their preservation conditions accessible. The project also involves digital preservation and access to films that remain forgotten or are undergoing deterioration.
By combining theoretical and practical perspectives, the panel aims to draw attention to the gaps in the representation of women within archival collections and to present possible actions for recovering these works and, consequently, the contributions of women to the history of cinema.
Speakers
avatar for Carolina Vergotti Ferrigno

Carolina Vergotti Ferrigno

Audiovisual preservation analyst at Cinemateca Brasileira, Cinemateca Brasileira
Born in São Paulo, Brazil, holds a BA in Photography from Centro Universitário Senac and a postgraduate degree in Museology from Fundação Escola de Sociologia e Política de São Paulo (FESPSP). Completed a professional internship at the Arquivo Municipal de Lisboa, participated... Read More →
avatar for Nayla Tavares Guerra

Nayla Tavares Guerra

Cultural producer at Cinemateca Brasileira, Cinemateca Brasileira
Nayla Guerra is a senior cultural producer at the Cinemateca Brasileira and a Master student in Economic History at the University of São Paulo, where she researches Palestinian militant cinema and its archives. She holds a postgraduate degree in Cultural Management from Senac (2025... Read More →
avatar for Patricia Furtado Mendes Machado

Patricia Furtado Mendes Machado

Professor at PUC-Rio, PUC-Rio
Patrícia Machado is the author of the book Cinema de Arquivo: Images and Memory of the Military Dictatorship(Sagarana, 2024). She is an Assistant Professor in the Graduate Program in Communication and the undergraduate program in Media Studies at PUC-Rio. She is a co-founder of REPIA... Read More →
Friday October 9, 2026 2:30pm - 3:30pm GMT-03
Lygia Grandflour Room

3:00pm GMT-03

Public and Private: what changes? A Dialogue between two brazilian cases of audiovisual preservation
Friday October 9, 2026 3:00pm - 3:30pm GMT-03
The objective of this presentation is to reflect upon the state of digital preservation in Brazil within both the public and private sectors. This analysis is conducted through two case studies: Empresa Brasil de Comunicação (EBC) and Rede Globo. This work summarizes research compiled for an academic article currently in its final stages of preparation.
Established in 2007, EBC represents the unification of what is estimated to be nine public communication outlets, including TV Brasil. In addition to the television archives produced by the station itself, EBC inherited collections from defunct educational broadcasters: TVE Maranhão, founded in 1969, TVE Rio de Janeiro, created in 1975, and TV Nacional de Brasília, which was inaugurated in 1960. Over its nearly twenty-year history, the company has sought to adapt to technological innovations in the preservation of and access to television archives. Since 2015, EBC has utilized a Media Asset Management (MAM) platform, which enables the digital archiving of raw footage and television programs, as well as the viewing, downloading, and keyword-based searching of assets. This system is gradually replacing the legacy IAcervo platform, which primarily recorded media formats and metadata such as cataloging details, synopses, and production dates. In line with this modernization, the Archives and Research Department implemented a digitization project in 2019 for U-matic (KA) media. These tapes contain some of TVE Rio’s most significant programming, such as Sem Censura, No Mundo da Bola, and Edição Nacional.
Rede Globo, Brazil’s largest broadcaster, was founded in 1965. Its documentation efforts began in 1974 in Rio de Janeiro, though the CEDOC (Documentation Center) department was not officially inaugurated until 1976. The collection is stored on a wide variety of media formats developed over the decades for audio and video storage, ranging from Quadruplex and U-matic tapes to contemporary LTO (Linear Tape-Open) technology. Content that was originally captured on magnetic tape is now captured digitally via binary code; however, this still necessitates storage solutions, whether physical media or virtual environments such as the cloud. Rede Globo has also undergone a significant evolution in its processes, progressing from paper-based cataloging stored in folders to sophisticated computerized systems. Initially, these systems were developed by in-house engineers; subsequently, the company entered into agreements with Dalet, and later Vizrt and DIVA, to outsource these services. Concurrent with this process is the digitization of analog media, generating digital assets that allow for a fully digital production workflow. This transition further facilitates the long-term conservation of original physical documents by reducing the need for repeated handling, as digital versions become the primary point of access. The purpose of this thirty-minute presentation is, therefore, to reflect on the Brazilian preservation landscape through a dialogue between these two distinct institutional experiences.
Speakers
avatar for Fernanda Borges Buarque de Hollanda

Fernanda Borges Buarque de Hollanda

Collection and Research Analyst, FGV - EBC
PhD and Master's degree holder in Cultural Heritage and Social Projects from the History, Politics and Cultural Heritage program at the Center for Research and Documentation of Contemporary History of Brazil (CPDOC), Getúlio Vargas Foundation (FGV). Specialist in Communication... Read More →
avatar for Daniela Pinheiro da Silva

Daniela Pinheiro da Silva

Phd Student, FGV
Daniela Pinheiro is a specialist in audiovisual archives. She worked as a researcher for the Globo Communication Group where, in addition to conducting research, she worked with curation and the insertion of documentary metadata. She holds a degree in Social Communication from the... Read More →
Friday October 9, 2026 3:00pm - 3:30pm GMT-03
Grande Otelo Room

3:00pm GMT-03

The Researcher in Audiovisual: Preserving and Valuing Audiovisual Memory
Friday October 9, 2026 3:00pm - 3:30pm GMT-03
PAVIC – Audiovisual, Iconography, and Content Researchers is a Nationwide, a nonprofit professional association in Brazil. We were established to raise awareness of and give proper recognition to the research professionals working in cultural, artistic, educational, and entertainment markets.

Founded in January 2022, PAVIC brings together 196 research professionals. As an association, one of our key missions is to promote and strengthen this professional field, as well as to drive improvement and efficiency in the production processes within the audiovisual and cultural sectors, which directly enhances the quality of the final products.

In the audiovisual field, research professionals preserve the memory of the entire production process for films, series, and soap operas. This includes details about the raw materials—such as images, sounds, or characters, which is especially vital when dealing with archival materials.

In ongoing collaboration with audiovisual archive institutions, researchers actively engage in processes of reuse, reinterpretation, and cultural mediation of media collections, helping to preserve and celebrate this important memory.
Speakers
avatar for Carol Gesser

Carol Gesser

PAVIC´s Financial Director, PAVIC
Carol Gesser is an audiovisual researcher, screenwriter, and executive producer, with experience in documentaries, factual content, and institutional projects. She holds a degree in Film from UFSC, a specialization in Creative Enterprise and City Management from UNC (Argentina), advanced... Read More →
avatar for Rita Marques

Rita Marques

PAVIC´s Executive Director, PAVIC
My professional journey was built at TV Globo, where I started as an intern and eventually became General Manager of the Documentation Center. I led the shift from a physical archive to a digital system and, together with the technology team, developed a real-time recording and archiving... Read More →
Friday October 9, 2026 3:00pm - 3:30pm GMT-03
Oscarito Room

3:30pm GMT-03

Afternoon Break
Friday October 9, 2026 3:30pm - 4:00pm GMT-03

Friday October 9, 2026 3:30pm - 4:00pm GMT-03
Grande Otelo Foyer

4:00pm GMT-03

Poster Session
Friday October 9, 2026 4:00pm - 4:30pm GMT-03
- Caliche, Nitrate: An Archaeology of Early Chilean Cinema (1897–1907) – Nina Satt Castillo
- The British Entertainment History Project – Susan Margaret Malden
- Cross‑Border Memories: Documenting Michael Dingake and the Regional Dialogues of Southern Africa’s Liberation Struggle – Tshepho Mosweu, Mpho Dintwa
- Animated Egypt: The Moheeb Animation Studio Archive at the American University in Cairo – Stephen Urgola
- Trust and Memory: Addressing the Impact of Generative AI on Audiovisual Archives – Fabio Bedoya
- Audiovisual Preservation in Southern Brazil: Climate Change, Conservation and Access – Louise Ayang Folgiarini, Estela Machado Winter Galmarino, Welington Ricardo Machado da Silva
- Constructing Japanese Immigration in Brazil: the Visible and the Off-Screen – Tomyo Costa Ito
- Televisar la Dictadura: Mediating Television Archives and Collective Memory in the Southern Cone – Diana Harumi Cardozo
- Archives of female hysteria in Brazil: the politics of the gaze and the relationship between patriarchal power and the power of psychiatric hospitals – Gabriela Santos Alves
- FRAME Mentoring 2026 – Meet the mentees – Thomas Monteil
- Preservation: A Digital Dilemma - Creation of the Brazilian Forum of Image and Sound Museums – José Maria Pereira Lopes, Mirele Camargo
- Super-8 Films Reinterpreted: Practice of Preserving Intangible Heritage and Traditional Knowledge – Luzia Gabriela Dantas de Lima Mendes
- Rediscovering portapak 1/2" open reels and equipment in Brazil – Maria Byington
- Artificial Intelligence and audiodescription scripts: tools and perspectives in the Brazilian context – Welinton Vinicius Pereira de Souza
Speakers
avatar for Mpho Dintwa

Mpho Dintwa

PhD Candidate, Wits Univeristy
Mpho Dintwa is a Botswana-based filmmaker and PhD candidate in Film and Television department at the University of the Witwatersrand in South Africa. Mpho's research focuses on documentary filmmaking, archives, and the reconstruction of historical narratives, particularly in relation... Read More →
avatar for Louise Ayang Folgiarini

Louise Ayang Folgiarini

Film Archivist, Museu de Comunicação Social Hipólito José da Costa
Holds a degree in Archival Science and a specialization in Permanent Archives (Historical Archives). Currently works in the Film Department of the Museu de Comunicação Social Hipólito José da Costa (MuseCom), contributing to projects related to audiovisual collections, and also... Read More →
avatar for Welington Ricardo Machado da Silva

Welington Ricardo Machado da Silva

Director, Museu de Comunicação Social Hipólito José da Costa
Museologist, currently pursuing a Master’s in Museology and Heritage, with an MBA in Business Intelligence and a specialization in Public Management. With over 10 years of experience in the museum sector, he currently leads the Museu de Comunicação Social Hipólito José da Costa... Read More →
avatar for Mirele Camargo

Mirele Camargo

President, ABPMIS
A professional with a background in Tourism, International Relations, and Museology. She has extensive experience in culture and heritage, including positions at the Curitiba Cultural Foundation and cultural heritage projects in the State of Paraná. Since June 2021, she has served... Read More →
avatar for Stephen Urgola

Stephen Urgola

University Archivist and Interim Associate Dean, Rare Books and Special Collections Library, The American University in Cairo Rare Books and Special Collections Library
Stephen Urgola has been University Archivist at the American University in Cairo (AUC) in Egypt since 2001, where he manages the university's historic records, records management program, and collections of primary sources in the Archives at AUC's Rare Books and Special Collections... Read More →
avatar for Thomas Monteil

Thomas Monteil

Project Manager, INA - Institut National de l'Audiovisuel
Thomas Monteil joined INA in 2010 as a sound engineer, specialist in the restoration of radio archives in the Technical Operations Department. Since 2020, he works as project manager in the INA Expertise and Consulting department and designs, coordinates, and leads cooperation projects... Read More →
avatar for Fabio Bedoya

Fabio Bedoya

Head of Restoration, Filmfinity
Fabio Bedoya is a film restoration technician and colorist specializing in digital preservation, color recovery, and machine learning assisted restoration workflows. His work focuses on developing practical and transparent tools for archival environments, with an emphasis on locally... Read More →
avatar for José Maria Pereira Lopes

José Maria Pereira Lopes

vice president, ABPMIS - ASSOCIAÇÃO BRASILEIRA DE PROFISSIONAIS DE MUSEUS DA IMAGEM E DO SOM
José Maria Pereira Lopes is the Manager of the FPA Documentation Center, having worked there since 1979. He has worked for other broadcasters such as Rede Tupi, SBT, and TV Excelsior, always in the area of audiovisual preservation and restoration. He was also the Coordinator of the... Read More →
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Tomyo Costa Ito

Postdoctoral Researcher, School of Communications and Arts, University of São Paulo (USP)., University of São Paulo (USP)
A FAPESP Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of São Paulo (ECA-USP), Brazil, his research focuses on Khmer Rouge propaganda films, with particular attention to the analysis of mise-en-scène, and includes a research stay at the Royal University of Phnom Penh (RUPP). In 2023, he... Read More →
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Nina Satt Castillo

PhD candidate (UC3M) - Independent Researcher
Nina (34) is from Iquique, Chile. She is a PhD candidate in the Media Research Doctoral Program at Universidad Carlos III of Madrid. Her work focuses on film heritage and archives in Chile and Spain. She currently coordinates the project Caliche, Nitrate: An Archaeology of Early... Read More →
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Susan margaret Malden

Secretary/Archive Manager for the British Entertainment History Project, the British Entertainment History Project
Qualified Information Scientist; Former head of BBC Broadcast Archive;former chair of the Federation of Commercial Audiovisual Libraries {FOCAL INT} member of Royal Television History Group; chair of the Media Archive of Central England;trustee of FilmisFabulous
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Tshepho Mosweu

Senior Lecturer, University of Botswana
Dr. Tshepho Mosweu is a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Library and Information Studies at the University of Botswana, where she teaches archives and records management to both undergraduate and postgraduate students. Before joining the University, she spent several years working... Read More →
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Estela Machado Winter Galmarino

Historian (Audiovisual Collections), Museu de Comunicação Social Hipólito José da Costa
Civil servant in the Public Policy and Government Management Analysts career of Rio Grande do Sul since 2010. Historian, with a specialization in Museology, with experience in museum collection management and audiovisual preservation. Member of the Brazilian Association of Audiovisual... Read More →
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Diana Harumi Cardozo

Research and Teaching Assistant, Universidad Torcuato Di Tella
Diana Cardozo is a historian specializing in media studies and Latin American history. She holds a bachelor’s degree in history from Torcuato Di Tella University (UTDT) and is currently pursuing a master's degree in journalism at LA NACION / UTDT.She works as a research assistant... Read More →
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Gabriela Santos Alves

Associate Professor, Federal University of Espírito Santo - UFES/Brasil
Associate Professor in the Department of Social Communication and Permanent Professor of the Postgraduate Program in Communication and Territorialities at the Federal University of Espírito Santo (UFES), Brazil. Researcher at Fapes/ES, “Women in Science” Call. Develops research... Read More →
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Luzia Gabriela Dantas de Lima Mendes

Technician in preservation and digitization., Museum of Image and Sound of Ceará. MIS CE
Specialist in Preservation, Conservation, and Restoration of Cultural Heritage (UCS) and Dissemination (FESPSP), and holds a Bachelor's degree in Library Science (UFC). Works as a Preservation and Digitization Specialist at the MIS-CE laboratories, handling the digitization of film... Read More →
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Maria Byington aka Maria Byington Leite de Castro

Audiovisual Researcher, Rede Globo
Maria Byington is a Brazilian audiovisual researcher, content researcher, and holds a Master's degree from the Postgraduate Program in Memory and Archives at the Fundação Casa de Rui Barbosa (PPGMA-FCRB) with the dissertation "The importance of the FIAT/IFTA Timeline Survey as a... Read More →
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Welinton Vinicius Pereira de Souza

Audio and AI Researcher, Universidade Federal da Bahia - UFBA - Póscom
Welinton Vinicius is a Brazilian postgraduate researcher at POSCOM/UFBA and an audiovisual professional focusing on media accessibility and emerging technologies. He is a member of LABEAS (Experimental Laboratory of (An)archaeologies of the Sensible), where he investigates the intersections... Read More →
Friday October 9, 2026 4:00pm - 4:30pm GMT-03
Grande Otelo Foyer

4:30pm GMT-03

Expert Roundtables
Friday October 9, 2026 4:30pm - 5:30pm GMT-03
The Expert Roundtables represent a highly participatory element of the conference programme. Designed as small group discussions, they provide an opportunity for professionals from across the audiovisual archiving community to exchange knowledge, reflect on shared challenges, and explore practical solutions on key topics.

All roundtables will take place in parallel. Each discussion is scheduled for approximately 30 minutes, followed by a brief wrap-up within the group, after which participants will rotate to a new table. The overall duration of the session is 60 minutes, allowing attendees to engage in several conversations and benefit from a diversity of perspectives.

If you are interested in moderating one of the Expert Roundtables, stay tuned for a survey we will launch soon.
Friday October 9, 2026 4:30pm - 5:30pm GMT-03
Oscarito Foyer

5:30pm GMT-03

Closing Session
Friday October 9, 2026 5:30pm - 5:45pm GMT-03

Friday October 9, 2026 5:30pm - 5:45pm GMT-03
Grande Otelo Room

5:45pm GMT-03

Closing Drinks
Friday October 9, 2026 5:45pm - 7:30pm GMT-03

Friday October 9, 2026 5:45pm - 7:30pm GMT-03
 
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