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Wed Sep 23 21:56:34 EDT 2026

This is wonderful news!
Earl Jackson
Professor, Emeritus
National Chiao Tung University, Taiwan
Associate Professor, Emeritus
University of California, Santa Cruz, the US

On Wed, Sep 23, 2026 at 11:28 PM quentin turnour via KineJapan <
kinejapan at mailman.yale.edu> wrote:

> The NFAJ just ended their crowdfunding campaign. And the final total
> issssss... astonishing.
>
> 151,895,000 yen. At today's xe that's AUD 1,362,650.04, or USD 959,693.42.
>
> Congratulations to Tochigi-san and the other NFAJ'ers. And to Japan's
> screen culture and screen workers for making this happen.
>
> Down here at the other end of Asia, and as an audiovisual archivist who's
> worked for several of my own nation's film screen preservation
> institutions, I am pleasantly, er, floored. That's a 50% over-subscription.
> Equivalent AV archive crowd funding attempts here (and in many other
> western countries) have been sometimes embarrassing failures, even when
> following the conventional wisdom that you must only target a specific
> preservation project. By contrast, the NFFJ have, remarkably and
> counter-intuitively, pulled off a call for general revenue funding. I
> roughly calculate an average donation of USD200. That's about four times
> what an average crowdfunding donation is here.
>
> Professional curiosity now stir up a whole a lot of questions about where
> to next. Boldly go next into the world of US philanthropic arts fund
> raising? It's a trend by some Japanese performing arts bodies:
> https://myriadusa.org/opening-the-door-to-giving-how-japans-cultural-sector-is-adapting-to-a-new-funding-era/
> . And its one others are following in the global institutional film
> preservation sector: the BFI's now got a 501(c)(3) foundation registered
> in the US. [https://www.bfi.org.uk/support/bfi-america]. Time for the
> George Lucas Foundation to repay his loan of HIDDEN FORTRESS?
>
> Curiosity is fed by reading a few recent, question-raising Japanese
> articles, which this community should check out if they haven't so far. The
> piece on the current restoration work of the old Tokyo Film Lab in a recent
> Japan Times [
> https://www.japantimes.co.jp/culture/2026/07/24/toho-archive-film-restoration/] -
> to me just a bit oddly defensive on Toho's part about its responsibilities
> to Japanese film heritage. Or a more recent, challenging essay in Japanese
> by Futoshi Koga, looking at the fundamentals of the NFAJ as a national
> cultural agency. That's on the Artscape.jp website [
> https://artscape.jp/article/75615/] (btw, thanks to a friend of many
> here, YIDFF and Documentary Dream Center's Fujioka Asako, for posting a
> link to that on her Facebook page a few days back. Otherwise I would have
> missed it).
>
> I'm flat out with local film heritage projects, so don't have the time to
> ruminate further on this for now. And of course I'm missing nuances of
> cultural politics. Nonetheless I'm damn curious about the role of the
> National Diet Library; is there something go on there with the (for many
> national film archives) poison pill issue of compulsory deposit? And about
> the NFAJ's relationship with that proposed National Media Art Centre (er
> Center).
>
> Quentin Turnour,
> National Archives of Australia.
>
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> *Subject:* Announcement of the end of our crowdfunding campaign and thank
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> We have an announcement from "Our mission is to preserve the memories of
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> September 23, 2026, 23:05
>
> Announcement of the end of our crowdfunding campaign and thank you for
> your donations.
>
> The crowdfunding campaign for the National Film Archive, which started at
> 8:00 AM on June 25, 2026, ended at 11:00 PM on Wednesday, September 23. We
> are deeply grateful to the more than 5,500 people who contributed,
> exceeding our next goal of 150 million yen. The National Film Archive...
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