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NFPF-preserved films at the Orphan Film Symposium
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| Like this man, attendees of the Orphan Film Symposium will learn The Four Pillars of Income (1939). |
The Orphan Film Symposium will be held April 8-11 at the Wexner Center for the Arts in Columbus, Ohio. As always, this event will bring together scholars, archivists, curators, media artists, preservationists, and collectors. This year’s theme is “Crisis and Community,” and each day of the symposium includes the presentation of a film preserved through NFPF grants.
The very first screening on the first day, presented by Ashley Dequilla from the Filipino American Historical Society of Chicago, is of five films made between 1936 and 1955 by amateur filmmaker Nicholas Viernes that document Filipino American families and their midwestern communities. On day two John Morton of the Tennessee Archive of Moving Image and Sound, a part of the Knox County Public Library, … Read more