World Cinema Project

The World Cinema Project (WCP) is a non-profit organization devoted to the preservation and restoration of neglected world cinema.

Founded in 2007 as the World Cinema Foundation by Martin Scorsese, it was inspired by the work of The Film Foundation in the United States, a similar venture which Scorsese founded with George Lucas, Stanley Kubrick, Steven Spielberg and Clint Eastwood in 1990.

The World Cinema Foundation is backed by an advisory board "Filmmaker Council" which includes Martin Scorsese, Fatih Akin, Souleymane Cissé, Guillermo Del Toro, Stephen Frears, Alejandro González Iñárritu, Wong Kar-Wai, Abbas Kiarostami, Deepa Mehta, Ermanno Olmi, Raoul Peck, Cristi Puiu, Walter Salles, Abderrahmane Sissako, Elia Suleiman, Bertrand Tavernier, Wim Wenders, and Tian Zhuangzhuang.[1]

After leaving his position at the Film Society of Lincoln Center, Kent Jones became the foundation's executive director.

Trances, a music documentary about Nass El Ghiwane an influential Moroccan music group, was picked by Martin Scorsese as the inaugural release for the foundation; it was screened at the Cannes Film Festival in 2007 and at Djemaa el-Fna square in Morocco.[2]

Restored films
English titleYearDirector
After the Curfew [A 1]1954Usmar Ismail
Alyam, Alyam1978Ahmed El Maanouni
Black Girl1966Ousmane Sembène
Borom Sarret1963Ousmane Sembène
The Boys from Fengkuei1983Hou Hsiao-hsien
A Brighter Summer Day1991Edward Yang
Chronicle of the Years of Fire1975Mohammed Lakhdar-Hamina
The Cloud-Capped Star1960Ritwik Ghatak
The Color of Pomegranates1969Sergei Parajanov
Downpour [A 1]1971Bahram Bayzai
Dry Summer[A 2]1964Metin Erksan
The Eloquent Peasant1969Shadi Abdel Salam
Enamorada1946Emilio Fernández
El fantasma del convento1934Fernando de Fuentes
The Housemaid[A 2]1960Kim Ki-young
Insiang[A 3]1976Lino Brocka
Kalpana1948Uday Shankar
Law of the Border[A 3]1966Lüfti Ö. Akad
Limite[A 3]1931Mário Peixoto
Lucía [A 1]1968Humberto Solás
Manila in the Claws of Light1975Lino Brocka
Memories of Underdevelopment1968Tomás Gutiérrez Alea
Muna Moto1975Jean-Pierre Dikongué Pipa
Mysterious Object at Noon[A 3]2000Apichatpong Weerasethakul
The Night of Counting the Years1969Shadi Abdel Salam
Los Olvidados1950Luis Buñuel
Pickpocket1997Jia Zhangke
Pixote [A 1]1980Héctor Babenco
Prisioneros de la tierra1939Mario Soffici
Raid into Tibet1966Adrian Cowell
Redes[A 2]1936Emilio Gómez Muriel & Fred Zinnemann
Revenge[A 3]1989Ermek Shinarbaev
A River Called Titas[A 2]1973Ritwik Ghatak
Soleil Ô[A 1]1970Med Hondo
Taipei Story[A 3]1985Edward Yang
Touki Bouki[A 2]1973Djibril Diop Mambéty
Trances[A 2]1981Ahmed El Maanouni
The Treasure1970Lester James Peries
Two Girls on the Street1939André de Toth
Two Monks [A 1]1934Juan Bustillo Oro
Woman with the Knife1969Timité Bassori

Upcoming restorations
English titleYearDirector
Bluebeard's Castle1963Michael Powell
The Winds of the Aures1967Mohammed Lakhdar-Hamina
Eight Deadly Shots1972Mikko Niskanen
Sambizanga1972Sarah Maldoror
Faces of Women1985Desiré Ecaré

References
  1. World Cinema Foundation
  2. Official Film Foundation site
  3. "Martin Scorsese's World Cinema Project". The Criterion Collection.
  4. "Martin Scorsese's World Cinema Project No. 2". The Criterion Collection.
  5. "Martin Scorsese's World Cinema Project No. 3". The Criterion Collection.

Notes
  1. Included in the Criterion Collection WCP No. 3 Boxset[5]
  2. Included in the Criterion Collection WCP No. 1 Boxset[3]
  3. Included in the Criterion Collection WCP No. 2 Boxset[4]
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