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New Executive Committee of the Association des Cinémathèques Européennes (ACE)

During the Cinema Ritrovato Film Festival in Bologna, on 1 July 2010, the General Assembly of the Association des Cinémathèques Européennes (ACE) elected a new Executive Committee for the term 2010-2012. New members of the EC are Thomas Christensen (Danish Film Institute, Copenhagen), Sandra den Hamer (Eye Film Institute Netherlands, Amsterdam), Tadeusz Kowalski (Filmoteka Narodowa, Warszaw), Mikko Kuutti (National Audiovisual Archive, Helsinki). Re-elected were Claudia Dillmann (Deutsches Filminstitut -- DIF, Frankfurt), Gian Luca Farinelli (Cineteca del Comune di Bologna), Mimi Gjorgoska-Illievska (Kinoteka na Makedonija, Skopje), Maria Komninos (Greek Film Archive, Athens), and Dinko Tucakovic (Yugoslovenska Kinoteka, Belgrade).

Claudia Dillmann, director of the Deutsches Filminstitut, was reappointed President and new Treasurer of ACE. The office of the Secretary General is held by Thomas Christensen, curator at the Danish Film Institute. ACE is an affiliation of 40 preservation film archives which closely work together to safeguard and promote the European cinematographic heritage.