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October 1, 2001, the DEFA Film
Library took over the distribution of these titles for ICESTORM International. Since 2003, the DEFA Film Library has produced DVDs for the North American market, expanding in 2014 to educational video on demand. Since 2005, the DEFA Film Library has produced high-quality English subtitles for these films.
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Library has hosted a biennial Summer Film Institute. Combining workshop discussions with screenings of a range of films—including little-known and rare titles—the Institutes are known for their stimulation of new research topics. (For a list of Summer Film Institute topics,
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Library organized two international conferences on East German cinema in the Five College area, in collaboration with PROGRESS Film-Verleih and the DEFA Foundation in Berlin. The DEFA Film Library collaborated on a third international conference with the Academy for
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In 1998, ICESTORM International Inc., which owned the international video rights for DEFA films, brought East German titles on VHS to North
America. ICESTORM and the DEFA Film Library collaborated on the selection of 61 titles for the first U.S. release of subtitled DEFA films on video in 1999. On
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and the DEFA-Stiftung—brought a collection of East German film journals and the largest collection of 16mm and 35mm prints of DEFA films outside of
Germany to the UMass Amherst campus. Also housed in the DEFA Film Library archive are 16mm prints that were donated by the US-GDR Friendship Committee
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The DEFA Film
Library at UMass Amherst was established in the late 1980s by Barton Byg, professor of Film and German Studies at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. The signing of an UMass Memorandum of Understanding on September 23, 1993, marks the DEFA Film Library's official founding. Byg's
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are involved in all aspects of the DEFA Film
Library. Through working on productions, public programming, sales and distribution, and teaching and outreach activities, they gain valuable non-academic experiences in translation, subtitling and research, as well as library, conference and arts
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creates high-quality
English-subtitled East German films in various formats, often with educational bonus features that are distributed on DVD or via streaming in North America and in English-speaking countries, as well as worldwide through the international network of
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Most visible have been large-scale touring film series that are co-curated by the DEFA Film
Library and various partners and which premiere at prestigious cultural institutions. In 2005, The Museum of Modern Art and the
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A festival showcasing films by and discussions with Black German filmmakers, actors, scholars and activists! Recordings of all five events are available in the DEFA Film Library’s FILMBOX, a Digital Teaching Archive.
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The DEFA Film Library organizes or participates in panels and panel series at national conferences, including German Studies Association (GSA) and Association for Slavic, East European and Eurasian Studies
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more available and widely known in North America and to broaden popular and scholarly understanding of filmmaking in the former GDR by critically exploring its aesthetic, political and ideological bases.
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The DEFA Film Library supports an international network of scholars with a range of regular programming that has helped shape national and international research agendas on (East) German cinema.
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As the post-unification fate of East Germany's film heritage was being decided in Germany, the DEFA Film Library's collection grew bit by bit. In 1997, an agreement with two German partners—
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A free virtual Summer Film Festival including 20 full-length and short films that included 3 live Zoom events with the film directors and 7 video introductions by experts.
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The DEFA Film Library's collection of theatrical film prints has now grown to almost 500 prints that have been screened at venues throughout North America, including: The
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mission, the nonprofit organization mounts a multi-tiered effort. Through preservation, research initiatives, production, and cultural programming, the DEFA Film Library:
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This retrospective took place on the occasion of Wagensteins 100th birthday and included four feature films by scriptwriter Angel Wagenstein and a documentary about him.
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offers key programs for teachers and for public and scholarly outreach including touring film series, biennial summer film institutes and the visiting artist program.
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is the only research center and archive outside of Germany devoted to a broad spectrum of filmmaking from and related to the former German Democratic Republic (GDR,
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In February 2019, the DEFA Film Library Endowment was established to support and enhance the mission and activities of the DEFA Film Library at UMass Amherst.
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and the former East German Embassy. This part of the collection includes films that were made specifically to report on and represent the GDR overseas.
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program brings German film directors to colleges, universities and cultural institutions throughout North America. Featured directors have included
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owns the collection "Social Change and Movements for Social Change," which includes a Cold War Culture Collection with an emphasis on East Germany.
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The most comprehensive retrospective to date that included the nine films the filmmaker produced at the East German DEFA Studios.
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awards an annual Graduate Student Essay Prize (since 2021) and the DEFA Film Library Programming Award (since 2023).
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New York presented the most comprehensive retrospective of East German films ever screened in North America,
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Special Collections and University Archives (SCUA) at UMass Amherst's W.E.B. Du Bois Library
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HIDDEN FIGURES: Blackness and Black Experiences in East Germany
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