The Film Foundation, a non-profit 501 (c) 3 organization, was created in 1990 by Martin Scorsese and nine other eminent filmmakers – Woody Allen, Robert Altman, Francis Ford Coppola, Clint Eastwood, Stanley Kubrick, George Lucas, Sydney Pollack, Robert Redford, and Steven Spielberg – to preserve and protect our cinematic heritage. Through educational programs, national campaigns, and public events, the foundation is dedicated to fostering greater awareness of the urgent need to save motion picture history.

Manhatten Madness (1916 d. Alan Dwan)

Through The Film Foundation’s support of the nation’s five major film archives – The Academy Film Archive (Los Angeles, CA), The George Eastman House (Rochester, NY), The Library of Congress (Washington, DC), The Museum of Modern Art (New York, NY), and the UCLA Film and Television Archive (Los Angeles, CA) – it is the leading organization dedicated to film preservation in the United States. In addition, the foundation funds the National Film Preservation Foundation (NFPF) and supports their federal grant programs which reach over 100 regional archives, libraries and historical societies. The cultural institutions supported by The Film Foundation provide U.S. and international communities with vital access to our collective film treasures.

Metropolis (d. Fritz Lang)

The foundation works to preserve and restore a broad range of filmmaking, classic Hollywood productions, independent, documentary and experimental works, and silent pictures from the earliest days of cinema, as well as newsreels and other historical films whose titles may not be widely known but whose importance to our film heritage is no less significant. Over the past 14 years, The Film Foundation has saved over 450 endangered films, including (partial list): ALL ABOUT EVE (1950, d. Joseph L. Mankiewicz), ERASERHEAD (1977, d. David Lynch), HOW GREEN WAS MY VALLEY (1941, d. John Ford), IT HAPPENED ONE NIGHT (1934, d. Frank Capra), THE LAST OF THE MOHICANS (1920, d. Clarence Brown and Maurice Tourneur), LOST LOST LOST (1976, d. Jonas Mekas), LOUISIANA STORY (1948, d. Robert Flaherty), MACBETH (1948, d. Orson Welles), THE NIGHT OF THE HUNTER (1955, d. Charles Laughton), ON THE WATERFRONT (1954, d. Elia Kazan), PATHS OF GLORY (1957, d. Stanley Kubrick), THE RIVER (1951, d. Jean Renoir), SEVEN MEN FROM NOW (1956, d. Budd Boetticher), SHADOW OF A DOUBT (1943, d. Alfred Hitchcock), SHADOWS (1960, d. John Cassavetes), THE STORY OF G.I. JOE (1945, d. William Wellman), and a collection of early silent-era Italian films from 1910-1920, among many others.

To learn more about The Film Foundation, visit www.film-foundation.org

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