Press Releases

October 16, 2017

Film Collector Gerald Herman Funds IndieCollect’s Queer Cinema Index; Robert Hawk to Serve as Project Director

December 1, 2016

APPARATUS FILMS: EARLY WORKS FROM CHRISTINE VACHON, TODD HAYNES and BARRY ELLSWORTH Two-Part Retrospective Receives One-Week Run at The Metrograph

August 4, 2016

IndieCollect Announces Inaugural Scholar-in-Residence Program

July 22, 2016

Metrograph and IndieCollect Announce Premiere Screening of Newly Restored GEMS UNSEEN: Early Apparatus Films from Christine Vachon, Todd Haynes and Barry Ellsworth

July 13, 2016

Early Steve Buscemi Film Discovered During Kickstarter Campaign to Save Indie Films

November 21, 2015

IndieCollect Unveils Its Web App at AMIA Annual Conference

November 19, 2015

Weisman Family Foundation Enables Launch of IndieCollect Film Scanning and Digital Preservation Program

August 2014

IndieCollect Announces Grant from Ford Foundation

Press Coverage

July 27, 2016

IndieWire
The Indie Film Preservation Crisis: We Are Losing the Films That Defined the ’80s and ’90s
Featuring interviews with Ira Deutchman and Sandra Schulberg
By Chris O’Falt

July 27, 2016

IndieWire
Metrograph & IndieCollect Announce World Premiere of ‘Gems Unseen,’ Featuring Early Films From Todd Haynes & Christine Vachon
By Vikram Murthi

July 15, 2016

IndieWire
Early Steve Buscemi Film ‘Tommy’s’ Unearthed During Film Preservation Kickstarter Campaign
By Steve Greene

July 5, 2016

V Magazine
Christine Vachon on IndieCollect's New Kickstarter Campaign
By Samuel Anderson

July 2, 2016

IndieWire
"A MAN IN YOUR ROOM:” Lost Christine Vachon Film Found
By Liz Calvario

June 28, 2016

Filmmaker Magazine
The Campaign to Revive Early Films from Christine Vachon and Todd Haynes
By Paula Bernstein

June 21, 2016

IndieWire
Kickstarter Campaign Hopes To Find Lost Films From Todd Haynes & Christine Vachon Created by IndieCollect, the campaign hopes to scan and restore the projects made from the duo’s Apparatus banner.
By Liz Calvario

June 22, 2015

IndieWire
IndieCollect Wants to Return Masters to Their Owners
By Anne Thompson

Summer 2015

International Documentary Association
IDA Newsletter

March 17, 2015

IndieWire
DOC NYC and IDA to Launch Documentary Film Preservation Summit
By Casey Cipriani

March 15, 2015

New York Times
Filmmaker Won’t Weep for the Cuba He Left Behind
By David Gonzalez

Winter 2014

Archive Zones, Issue No. 92
The Great DuArt Film Rescue

August 20, 2014

New York Times
The Movie Crypt at the Top of the Stairs
By John Anderson

August 14, 2014

Filmmaker Magazine
IndieCollect, a Film Preservation Initiative, Receives $200,000 Challenge Grant from Ford Foundation
by Sarah Salovaara

July 2014

Tribeca Film Institute
Safekeeping: Tips On How To Archive Your Films
by Jason Guerasio

May 6, 2014

Nation Archives
National Archives Hosts Screening and Program on Solomon Northup’s Odyssey May 20

May 2014

Colorlab Blog
Did You Know About the Original Film Version of Twelve Years a Slave?
by Regina Longo

December 9, 2013

The Independent
Do You Know Where Your Film and Video Masters Are?
by Erin Trahan

November 2013

AMIA Conference 2013
The Great DuArt Film Rescue

November 2013

Independent Filmmaker Project MN
IFP Founder Sandra Schulberg Discusses Film Restoration