Archival & Preservation

Here is the layout. We deliver archive and preservation services from Istanbul, building long-term storage plans for film and digital masters: file-based archive to open and stable formats, checksummed verification, redundant copies, structured metadata and migration planning that keeps assets easy to reach as technology changes. Our archivists prepare camera negatives, finished masters, audio stems and project files for deposit, applying preservation standards that protect content against obsolescence and media decay. Turkey's mature post-prod sector, concentrated in Istanbul and sustained by the relentless volume of the dizi industry, creates huge catalogues that need tight archive, and the favourable Turkish lira makes thorough preservation work strongly cost-competitive.

Here is how the work shapes up. Turkey holds a deep cinematic heritage worth preserving — the films of Yılmaz Güney, whose 'Yol' won the Palme d'Or in 1982, the work of Nuri Bilge Ceylan and Fatih Akın, and decades of classic Turkish cinema held by Turkish film archives. We support preservation projects for archive institutions and prepare heritage material for restoration and festival retrospectives at the Antalya Golden Orange Film Festival, the oldest Turkish festival since 1963, and the Istanbul Film Festival. The dizi export business, the world's second-largest TV-series trade, also depends on robust archive so back catalogues stay ready for re-licensing and re-versioning into Arabic, Spanish and other markets. Where archives hold personal-data material we observe the KVKK data-protection framework, delivering preservation packages with complete metadata and integrity records.