Summary The APEX program (Audiovisual Preservation Exchange) associated to the Moving Image Archiving and Preservation Masters Program of New York University (NYU) celebrates its tenth anniversary. APEX is a sustainable educational model that promotes international collaboration and academic dialogue in order to safeguard audiovisual media such as film, videos and digital materials. It is an opportunity for cross-exchange of practices, knowledge and solutions to common problems by working directly with audiovisual collections, with the involvement of professionals, students, researchers and the general public. Following its first version in Accra (Ghana) in 2008, APEX has been carried out in many Latin American countries: Colombia (2013), Uruguay (2014), Argentina (2009 and 2015) and Chile (2016). In 2017, it was organized in Cartagena (Spain) and the 2018 version will be held in Río de Janeiro (Brazil). The tenth anniversary is an opportunity to assess obtained results and plan future collaborations that aim at strengthening the professional networks that have been formed to this date. Our project proposes the organization of a twoday symposium, prior to APEX Río. APEX will be working on this opportunity with the following local institutions: Arquivo Geral da Cidade do Rio de Janeiro, Subgerência de Documentação Especial; the Cinemateca do Museu de Arte Moderna do Rio de Janeiro, the Centro Técnico do Audiovisual from the Ministry of Culture and the project Laboratório Universitário de Preservação Audiovisual (LUPA) of the Universidad Federal Fluminense, Instituto de Arte e Comunicação (IACS). Rafael de Luna, professor and archivist of Fluminense is this year’s coordinator in Brazil. The symposium will include panels, round tables and screenings, and expects to issue a document that will be useful as a guideline 16
for future activities in the region in relation to collaborations that safeguard of the Latin American audiovisual heritage. At this symposium, we will have the presence of members of organizations that have participated in APEX , mainly from countries that are MERCOSUR members and other associated countries. Results from the different dialogues and roundtables will be gathered in a virtual publication that will include lectures from attendants, summaries of the roundtables, reports on challenges and future projects. This publication will constitute archival memory as well as a reference tool for the archives that were and will be part of APEX. v
Keywords: Archives, audiovisuals, collaboration, education, exchange, heritage.