Every year, activities are organized by different institutions worldwide around a theme to drum up interest in the event. More information. Audiovisual documents, such as films, radio and television programmes, audio and video recordings, contain the primary records of the 20th and 21st centuries.
Transcending language and cultural boundaries, appealing immediately to the eye and the ear, to the literate and illiterate, audiovisual documents have transformed society by becoming a permanent complement to the traditional written record.
However, they are extremely vulnerable and it is estimated that we have no more than 10 to 15 years to transfer audiovisual records to digital to prevent their loss. Much of the world's audiovisual heritage has already been irrevocably lost through neglect, destruction, decay and the lack of resources, skills, and structures, thus impoverishing the memory of mankind. Much more will be lost if stronger and concerted international action is not taken. It was in this context, that the UNESCO General Conference in approved the commemoration of a World Day for Audiovisual Heritage as a mechanism to raise general awareness of the need for urgent measures to be taken and to acknowledge the importance of audiovisual documents as an integral part of national identity.
World Day for Audiovisual Heritage. Saving our heritage for the next generation is a way to recognize those that have preceded it is through the work that make the files to recover, conserve and disseminate the elements that speak of society and that are keys to the building and consolidation of identity in continuous evolution. The national archive of Andorra has prepared two actions: on the one hand, the production of a short documentary to raise awareness and recognise the professional work carried out by Jordi Sasplugas Mateu.
In a public session on the 27th of October at Sasplugas is also meant for his political activism and militancy in the PSUC. As a whole and committed, he worked very hard to give visibility to the cinema that was out of most commercial circuits, and founded the Association of Independent Film Producers of the Mediterranean Apimed , who now directs the President of the Catalan Academy of Cinema, Isona Passola.
