View this years nominees
We received a wide variety of submissions this year, making it a challenging and rewarding deliberation process for the jurors.
We congratulate all the the shortlisted nominees. Good Luck
The FOCAL International Restoration and Preservation Project Award endeavour to recognise the archives and / or technical facilities that have restored and preserved archival moving image content across a project (multiple connected titles), originating on film or video.
The FOCAL Jury will take into account various considerations when assessing the works. Such considerations include:
These above considerations are not exhaustive and the jury aim to consider each entry in their own right and context.
Entries for the 2020 FOCAL International Awards have now CLOSED. The 2021 Awards will be opening for submissions November 2020, please kept an eye out for further information.
The FOCAL Awards celebrate three areas – production, restoration and preservation, and people. All our production categories celebrate the very best use of footage within the production, programme or project.