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The European Film Gateway (launch)

The European Film Gateway (EFG) is a 3-year project running from September 2008 to the end of August 2011. It is co-funded by the eContentPlus programme of the European Commission. Involving 22 partners from 16 European countries, EFG develops an online portal, which will provide direct access to about 600.000 digital objects including films, photos, posters, drawings and text documents.

The portal, that has recently been launched, gives academics and professional researchers, the creative industry as well as anyone interested in film the access to discover 16 European film archives and their objects. Users can view early shorts by great masters, an abundance of film stills and posters as well as a wide variety of film related material from the pre-cinema era until today. The objects can be found by searching for persons, or film titles and keywords. All objects on the EFG can also be searched and accessed via Europeana.

The EFG project will officially end on 31 August 2011. Until then, around 600.000 objects will be searchable on the European Film Gateway and functionalities will be improved. After the project has ended, the portal will stay online, sustained by the archives of the EFG consortium. On 18 and 19 August, the EFG team will get together for a final Plenary Board Meeting in Frankfurt to evaluate and wrap-up three years of co-operation.


Click here to go to the EFG portal (opens in new window).