National Film Preservation Foundation

Promoting Access. The NFPF websites online component of The Field Guide to Sponsored Films (2006) hosts 198 films free to stream from 12 organizations. In addition, the NFPF funded three access projects in 2021 to George Eastman Museum, Northeast Historic Film, and UCLA to create 4K scans of past grant projects. Once digitized, these will join 107 films preserved through NFPF programs already available in the online screening room as part of the launch of the NFPFs new streaming initiative. Additionally, the NFPF has continued working to preserve American films found only in international archives and make them available to stream. The NFPF also assists the Library of Congress in implementing selected recommendations found in the National Recording and National Film Preservation Plans.

Promoting film preservation through publications. The foundation produces DVD sets in the Treasures from American Film Archives series and books that advance national film preservation efforts. With support from the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts and the National Endowment for the Arts, the NFPF continues production on Treasures 6: Next Wave Avant-Garde Film, a 5-hour DVD box set surveying 28 experimental filmmakersfrom Abigail Child to Phil Solomonwho rose to prominence after 1965.