Thomson Foundation for Film & Television Heritage

Created in 2006, the Thomson Foundation for Film & Television Heritage is a non-profit entity, acting in the field of preservation and promotion of film and audiovisual heritage, which reflects the history and the culture of a country.

The Thomson Foundation operates worldwide and as a priority, in countries where archives are at risk. Three main lines guide its programs: preserve a film heritage as a key part of a country’s memory, promote and highlight a film heritage in order to show it and to share it with large audience, train and sensitize everyone who can play a part in the safeguard of film heritage.

The Foundation currently conducts programs in more than 8 countries: mostly India, Cambodia, Thailand, USA and France and more recently Palestinian territories and Mozambique.

Each year, one of the objectives of Thomson Foundation is also to restore a key title of the international cinema in order to better raise the audience’s awareness about the importance of film heritage and about the risks endangered by films when not properly safeguarded. In 2008, the Foundation restored Lola Montès by Max Ophuls and in 2009 Mr Hulot’s Holiday by Jacques Tati, both presented in Cannes, in Bologna and other international festivals.

To ensure independence and transparency, the projects are supported actively by the Foundation’s Board of Directors comprising 8 members, 4 of whom are experts from outside Thomson.

Visit our website: www.thomsonfilmfoundation.org