A recent article on Smithsonian.com details the Human Studies Film Archives work to restore and preserve Argentine filmmaker Jorge Prelorán’s Valle Fértil (1972), which shows for the first time in the United States on December 4 at the Society for Visual Anthropology Film Festival in Washington, D.C. Read more.
In October 2024, DER Executive Director Alice Apley and Technical and Creative Director Frank Aveni had the honor of traveling to southern Africa as part of a film repatriation initiative.
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In collaboration with the Office of Resources for International and Area Studies (ORIAS) at UC Berkeley and 25 participating federally funded centers for area studies at universities across the country, DER launched an online film program for K-12 teachers in 2023 with the dual goals of providing teachers with resources and tools to promote film literacy and introducing K-12 resource centers and teachers to the DER catalog.
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