FRAME Mentoring 2025 - Call for applications

Since 2010, INA (French National Audiovisual Institute) organizes the yearly FRAME training programme, with the support of EBU Academy, FIAT/IFTA, and the Creative Europe MEDIA programme. The 2025 edition of FRAME starts with the opening of the FRAME Mentoring call for applications, until March 16th.

The programme is addressed to all junior professionals (around max. 5 years of experience at the same or similar position) working in the audiovisual field. It aims at supporting them in their career path development and at implementing one of his/her project. 2 applicants will be selected.

The mentoring programme includes:
- Monthly online exchanges with your mentor and other relevant experts, from June to December 2025
- A professional immersion for two weeks at INA or in the mentor’s organisation, during the autumn 2025
- An Accreditation to the next FIAT/IFTA World Conference, which will be organised in Rome, Italy in October 2025, which will offer you an overview of the latest trends in audiovisual archives and an opportunity to develop your network.
All expenses (flights, hotels, lunches) are 100% covered by the programme scholarship.

FRAME Mentoring is primarily addressed to professionals involved in a project ongoing or to be launched soon. The mentee’s project could deal with (non-exhaustive list):
- Design and implementation of an archiving workflow
- Collect of audiovisual archives
- Preservation of audiovisual archives physical carriers
- Digitisation plan
- Audiovisual and film restauration
- Digital archive management
- Management, notably of an audiovisual archives department
- Documentation
- Definition of data models and Management of audiovisual database
- IA applied to audiovisual archives
- Rights management
- Research and academic access and projects using audiovisual archives and data
- Educative access and projects using audiovisual archives
- Cultural access projects using audiovisual archives
- Editorialisation and audiovisual archives to produce information
- Production of audiovisual contents based on archives (film, documentary, digital and innovative contents)
- Post-disaster handling of collections

> For more information about FRAME Mentoring 2025 and to apply: https://www.ina.fr/actualites-ina/frame-2025
> For more information about the 2025 FRAME training programme: https://www.ina.fr/actualites-ina/frame-0

Since 2010, INA (French National Audiovisual Institute) designs and organizes the yearly international FRAME training programme, with the support of EBU Academy, FIAT/IFTA and the Creative Europe MEDIA programme. FRAME includes 2 training sessions (FRAME Basics and FRAME Advanced), a mentoring programme (FRAME Mentoring) and a workshop organized during the FIAT/IFTA World Conference (FRAME Expert).

The call for applications for FRAME Basics, the online training session of the 2025 edition of FRAME, is now open until 13 April.

• Target group: The FRAME Basics training session is addressed to all European and international professionals working in the audiovisual archives field, and aimed primarily at professionals who are willing to reinforce or acquire the fundamentals of audiovisual archiving (professionals with little experience, professionals who have had little or no training in this field, professionals working in organisations with few resources, etc.).


• Training programme: The training programme will cover all the audiovisual archiving process steps and aspects, from preservation, digitization, documentation to access, reuse and distribution. It will focus on fundamental knowledge and skills.


• Dates & place: The training session will take place online during 6 half-day, in two parts, from June 16-18 and June 23-25 2025


• Language: English
  
  > For more information about FRAME Basics 2025 and to apply: https://www.ina.fr/actualites-ina/frame-basics-2025
  > For more information on FRAME 2025: https://www.ina.fr/actualites-ina/frame-0
  > And as a reminder, the call for applications for the FRAME Mentoring programme is still open (until March 16h) : https://www.ina.fr/actualites-ina/frame-2025

Photos, posters, press clippings, 3D objects, sheet music and many other materials are collected, catalogued, digitized and made accessible in and by film archives. These diverse documents are commonly grouped under the term “film-related materials”. However, each of these types of materials requires a completely different approach in terms of collection, digitization, and also cataloguing, and most of all, requires specialised and trained archivists. In addition, these departments within the film institutions are usually staffed with fewer people than the film departments. 

With this workshop, the CDC would like to offer a place and framework in which precisely the specific issues of film-related materials can be discussed openly and experiences exchanged. After a successful workshop in Stockholm on cataloguing film related materials in 2023, we will broaden the scope and take the whole workflow from acquisition, preservation, cataloguing to access into consideration. We will also discuss oral history and immaterial film heritage.

ES

Como parte de una nueva estrategia de capacitación y actualización que se ha preparando para la región hispanoamericana, la Comisión de Catalogación y Documentación de la FIAF, la Cineteca Nacional de México y la Coordinadora Latinoamericana de Archivos de Imágenes en Movimiento (CLAIM), lanzaremos en junio la convocatoria para asistir al Curso-Taller “De la catalogación a la metadescripción integral de recursos de imágenes en movimiento”. Esta capacitación está dirigida a los catalogadores y personal interesado que colaboran en los procesos relativos a la organización documental y descriptiva de los recursos de imágenes en movimiento en los distintos archivos fílmicos y audiovisuales de la región. Este curso-taller será presencial con sede en la Cineteca Nacional de México, del 8 al 11 de septiembre de 2025. La capacitación será impartida por Circe Sánchez González (miembro de la CDC), con la participación especial de Natasha Fairbairn (British Film Institute, miembro de la CDC, y autora principal del Manual FIAF de Catalogación de Imágenes en Movimiento) y Adelheid Heftberger (Bundesarchiv, Berlin, directora de la CDC). Además, se tendrá la participación de tres integrantes más de la FIAF-CDC, quienes impartirán conferencias magistrales que serán transmitidas vía livestream con traducción simultánea al español. Con esta capacitación (primera de una serie de cursos que versarán sobre distintas temáticas), se busca abrir foros de encuentro, análisis y debate para mejorar y fortalecer los procesos sustantivos dentro del ciclo de vida de los recursos de imágenes en movimiento, como parte fundamental del patrimonio cultural del mundo.

Pronto se proporcionará más información.

EN

As part of a new training and updating strategy that has been prepared for the Latin American region, the FIAF Cataloging and Documentation Commission, the Cineteca Nacional de México and the Coordinadora Latinoamericana de Archivos de Imágenes en Movimiento (CLAIM), will launch in June the call to attend the Course-Workshop “From Cataloging to Comprehensive Meta-Description of Moving Image Resources”. This training is aimed at cataloguers and interested personnel who collaborate in the processes related to the documentary and descriptive organization of moving image resources in the different film and audiovisual archives of the region. This workshop will be held at the Cineteca Nacional de México, from 8 to 11 September 2025. The training will be given by Circe Sánchez González (CDC member), with the special participation of Natasha Fairbairn (British Film Institute, CDC member, and main author of the FIAF Manual on Cataloguing Moving Images) and Adelheid Heftberger (Bundesarchiv, Berlin, Head of the CDC). In addition, three other members of the CDC will be participating in keynote lectures that will be transmitted via livestream with simultaneous translation into Spanish. This training (the first of a series of courses on different topics) seeks to open forums for meeting, analysis and debate to improve and strengthen the substantive processes within the life cycle of moving image resources, as a fundamental part of the world's cultural heritage.

Registrations will open in early July. More information to follow soon.

FRAME Advanced Access 2025 - Call for applications

Since 2010, INA (French National Audiovisual Institute) organizes the yearly FRAME training programme, dedicated to international audiovisual heritage professionals. FRAME is supported by EBU, FIAT/IFTA and Creative Europe MEDIA.

The call for applications for FRAME Advanced Access 2025, the 2nd training session of the 2025 edition of FRAME, is now open until September 24. 

Deadline to apply: September 24

For who?: All European and international professionals working in the audiovisual archives field, and aimed primarily at professionals already mastering the fundamental knowledge of audiovisual archiving with previous experience or dedicated training. Basic concepts will not be reviewed during presentations considered as already acquired by participants. 

Programme: Focused on the latest developments and innovation of audiovisual collections documentation and access topics: data models, data management and exploitation, AI applied to multimedia collections management, access strategies, audiovisual heritage legal framework,, archives-driven production and access projects, etc. *Technical topics will be covered by the FRAME Advanced Tech session next year

Language: English

Dates: 5 days from November 24-28 2025

Place: At INA, Paris

> For more information about FRAME Advanced Access 2025 and to apply: https://www.ina.fr/actualites-ina/frame-advanced-2025 
> FRAME Advanced Access 2025 Conditions for applications: https://www.ina.fr/hub-p/public/2025-05/FRAME Advanced Access 2025 - Conditions of applications.pdf 
> For more information on FRAME: https://www.ina.fr/actualites-ina/frame-0

In March 2026, FIAF will join forces with the Cinémathèque française and the Fondation Jérôme Seydoux-Pathé once again to offer a short training course (in English and French) aimed at professionals in FIAF archives and beyond. The general theme of this specialized course is still "Programming Film Heritage", and will once again be taught by programming experts from the global network of FIAF archives and other distinguished professionals in a relevant field. This 11th edition of the Winter School will take place on-site only, at the Fondation Jérôme Seydoux-Pathé and at the Cinémathèque, on 9 and 10 March 2026, just before the Cinémathèque française festival (11-15 March 2026).

The classes (a mixture of lectures, workshops and round-table discussions) will be taught by programming experts from the global network of FIAF archives, and other distinguished professionals in a relevant field. Note that presentations will be delivered in English or French, with simultaneous translation available throughout the course. FIAF's Programming and Access to Collections Commission will lead one of the sessions.