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« The World Cinema Foundation (WCF) is a non-profit organization dedicated to preserving and restoring neglected films from around the world; in particular, those countries lacking the financial and technical ability to do so.
Established by Martin Scorsese, the Foundation supports and encourages preservation efforts to save the worldwide patrimony of films, ensuring that they are preserved, seen and shared. Its goal is to defend the body and spirit of cinema in the belief that preserving works of the past can encourage future generations to treat film as a universal form of expression.
Cinema is an international language, an international art, but, above all, it is a source of enlightenment. There are wonderful, remarkable films, past and present, from Mexico, Eastern Europe, the Middle East, Latin America and Central Asia that deserve to be known and seen. Martin Scorsese has created the World Cinema Foundation with the specific purpose of calling attention to the global cause of film preservation.
Composed of filmmakers from every continent, the World Cinema Foundation breathes life into the idea that when a cultural patrimony is lost, no matter how small or supposedly ?marginal? the country might be, we are all poorer for it. »
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La World Cinema Foundation a été créée par Martin Scorsese afin de préserver et restaurer des films importants dans l'histoire du cinéma (ou tout simplement des perles, parfois les deux), issus de pays n'ayant pas vraiment les moyens - tant pécuniaires que technologiques - de le faire eux-mêmes. Scorsese en est le président et une dizaine de cinéastes connus siègent au conseil des cinéastes, aidant ce dernier dans le choix des films à restaurer.
Le site de la fondation : [lien]http://worldcinemafoundation.org/[/lien]