Highlight
Integrale Pierre Etaix!
The Complete Oeuvre of Pierre Etaix in restored version, including The Great Love (1969), selected at Cannes Classics 2010.
Presentation
Created in 2006, the Technicolor Foundation for Cinema Heritage (formerly Thomson Foundation) is a non-profit entity, acting in the field of preservation and promotion of film and audiovisual heritage, which reflects the history and the culture of a country.
The Technicolor Foundation operates worldwide and as a priority, in countries where archives are at risk. Three main lines guide its programs: preserve a film heritage as a key part of a country’s memory, promote and highlight a film heritage in order to show it and to share it with large audience, train and sensitize everyone who can play a part in the safeguard of film heritage.
The Foundation currently conducts programs in several countries: among them Cambodia, Thailand, USA, India, Turkey, Ethiopia, China, Romania and France.
Each year, one of the objectives of this Foundation is also to restore a key title of the international cinema in order to better raise the audience’s awareness about the importance of film heritage and about the risks endangered by films when not properly safeguarded. In 2008, the Foundation restored Lola Montès by Max Ophuls and in 2009 jointly with Groupama Gan Foundation, Mr Hulot’s Holiday by Jacques Tati, Selvi Boylum al Yazmalim by Atif Yilmaz and the Complete Oeuvre of Pierre Etaix in 2010 with The Great Love selected at Cannes Classics.
In 2011, the Foundation restored the unique color version of Le Voyage dans la Lune (A Trip to the Moon) by Georges Méliès (1902), along with the Groupama Gan Foundation and Lobster Films.
The Foundation changed its name in 2010, turning from Thomson Foundation into Technicolor Foundation, as a consequence of its founder name change.