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While it seems that museums just can’t squeeze a dime out of anyone these days, fortunately there are film festivals to lend a hand when times get tough. At least that’s the case for this particular instance, as the Newport International Film Festival, which runs in June, has announced that they are going to donate $10,000 to New York’s Museum of Modern Art to help in their film preservation efforts. They’ll be doing this via the winner of their annual Claiborne Pell Tribute Award, which they’ll announce at the upcoming festival, who will not only have the donation made in their name, but also get to select which films get the restoration and preservation treatment. What’s more, to celebrate the new collaboration between the two, the fest will be screening six films the MoMA has recently saved from celluloid death. Here’s a bit about that:

The 2009 NIFF will also feature a special film series based on the past six years of MoMA’s To Save and Project preservation festival, selected by Joshua Siegel, Associate Curator, and Anne Morra, Assistant Curator, Department of Film, The Museum of Modern Art. Representatives from MoMA’s Department of Film will present selected titles in this NIFF series and also participate in a panel discussion on film preservation.

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