The Ibermemoria Sonora y Audiovisual Programme is a multilateral body for technical and financial
of technical and financial cooperation to promote research, rescue, preservation and access to the sound, photographic and audiovisual heritage of Latin America and the Caribbean,
preservation and access to the sound, photographic and audiovisual heritage of Ibero-America.
and audiovisual heritage of Ibero-America, as well as the permanent updating of those in charge of these tasks.
these tasks.
Conceived as a cultural community, the countries involved have in the
Ibermemoria Sonora y Audiovisual Programme has the following guiding principles that frame its actions
1) recognition of the socio-cultural uniqueness of each one; 2) establishment of policies for the
2) establishment of policies for the integral preservation of the region’s sound, photographic and audiovisual heritage,
and audiovisual heritage of the region; 3) making the most of the existing work in each country; 4) literacy
each country; 4) sound, photographic and audiovisual literacy as an educational right; 5) social participation; 6) use of sound, photographic and audiovisual heritage as an educational right;
5) social participation; 6) use of technologies as indispensable tools to achieve the preservation of the aforementioned heritage.
6) use of technologies as indispensable tools for the preservation of this heritage.
In order to make progress in these areas, one of the programme’s objectives is, through a call for proposals, to allocate resources for Ibero-American countries to implement preservation plans that include social and institutional initiatives aimed at achieving all its objectives:
- Identify sound, photographic and audiovisual archives in the region.
- Generate care plans for sound, photographic and audiovisual archives that are in high levels of deterioration.
audiovisual archives that are at high levels of risk. - Develop mechanisms for preservation and access.
- Disseminate the sound, photographic and audiovisual heritage of Ibero-America.
- Promote the culture of listening, sound art, the manifestation of the photographic image, cinema, television, and the
photographic image, cinema, television, video art and cinematographic culture. - To provide continuous training for the staff working in the sound archives,
photographic and audiovisual archives - Document and share the experience, knowledge and know-how generated in the field of
in the integral preservation of sound, photographic and audiovisual heritage.
and audiovisual heritage.
In this sense, in line with these guidelines, the Ibermemoria Sonora and Audiovisual Programme
and Audiovisual Programme issues this I Call for Projects for the Preservation, Access and Safeguarding of the Sound
Preservation, Access and Safeguarding of Sound, Photographic and Audiovisual Heritage, under the theme of
Memory and Modernity.
Bases of the Call for Proposals
Submission of projects until 31 December 2017