• The Cambodian Ministry of Culture and Fine Arts
  

From the beginning of the project, the Ministry of Culture and Fine Arts has supported and collaborated with the Audiovisual Resource Center. The Ministry has generously contributed to the physical achievement of this project by providing the Center with a building for an eight-year renewable period. Through the Cultural Diffusion and Cinema Department, it has also entrusted the Center with a large collection of documents to be restored and digitized.

Moreover, the Ministry is the privileged partner of the CFC, a project created and implemented by ARPAA.

http://www.mcfa.gov.kh
www.cambodia-cfc.org

• The French Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MAE)
  

The French Ministry of Foreign Affairs is the principal donor of the Audiovisual ResourceCenter. Sympathetic to the preservation of cultural heritages and a diversity of cultural expression, it has strongly contributed to the launching of the Center. It makes an essential contribution through its provision of substantial funds (Fonds de Solidarité Prioritaire and Plan Image Archives), and by putting qualified persons (international volunteers, Tandem program) at the Center’s disposal.

 http://www.diplomatie.gouv.fr 

• The French Ministry of Culture and Communication

The French Ministry of Culture and Communication has financially supported [both] the opening and the running of the Audiovisual Resource Center since the beginning. The Ministry later assisted the launch of a touring program of screenings in the provinces. It continues to support both this program and other upcoming activities, in particular educational workshops on the image and cultural exhibitions of the Bophana Center.

www.culture.gouv.fr

www.unesco.org

• The National Audiovisual Institute (INA)

INA has been present since the inception of the project. More than 500 digitized copies of television, radio and cinema archives have been entrusted to the Center. Regular support has been provided, both in terms of personnel (training of research analysts), and in terms of archives (researchers and librarians have been made available). INA has also taken responsibility for developing the database, an indispensable instrument for archiving data and for making them accessible to the public. More recently, INA gave the Center copies in Mpeg2 format, of sufficient quality to broadcast the archives in a large screen format.

http://www.ina.fr/

• The US State department

In 2009, the US State department, through its Embassy in Cambodia, has granted the Bophana Center in order to produce a short film of sensitization to justice to young Cambodians under the age of 18.

ttp://cambodia.usembassy.gov/

http://www.state.gov/

• The Municipality of Paris 

The Municipality of Paris is a loyal partner of the Bophana Center: first, it has subsidized the purchase of equipment for, and the construction of, the screening room, which has been named “Paris – Eden Cinéma”. The Municipality of Paris has renewed its support of the Bophana Center for different projects: by helping to diversify the means of public access to the Bophana Center, by supporting one of its photographic projects designed to collect the memories of the city of Phnom Penh and finally, by participating in the transfer of skills between the Bophana Center and the Imagine Institute (Burkina Faso) in order to implement an archive Center in Ouagadougou.  

www.paris.fr

•  The French Senate

http://www.senat.fr  

•   Thomson Foundation for Film & Television Heritage

Created in 2006, the Thomson Foundation for Film & Television Heritage is a non-profit entity, acting worldwide in the field of the preservation and the promotion of film and TV heritage, which reflects the history and culture of a country or a set of countries. Therefore, working in cooperation with local and international partners, the Thomson Foundation identifies urgent programs for the safeguarding of films and targets its activities directly in the field. Together with the Bophana Center, the Foundation has implemented the “Lost Film Search” program, in partnership with George Eastman House in the United States, in order to extent the collecting of Cambodian audiovisual archives in the US. The Thomson Foundation also enabled the digitization of archives from the Cinema Department, and contributed to the expansion of the consultation space in the Center’s archives.

http://www.thomson.net/GlobalEnglish/Corporate/About/thomson-foundation/-
Pages/default.aspx  
http://www.eastmanhouse.org/

• The National Center for the Cinema (CNC)

The National Center for the Cinema (CNC) granted a subsidy to support the creation of the Center. The CNC has also contributed to the process of providing preliminary training for research analysts and to the indexation of the Cambodian collections.

www.cnc.fr

• The International Francophonie Organization (OIF)

The International Francophonie Organization offered a subsidy to support the “archives” and “training” components of the Bophana Center. This grant has indeed supported the gradual handover of the Center’s activities by the Cambodian team.

www.francophonie.org

• Foundation Open Society Institute

The Foundation Soros – Open Society Institute awarded a grant intended to support an awareness-raising project on the Khmer Rouge Tribunal, including the production of a short documentary film about the tribunal.

www.soros.org

• Prince Claus Fund for Culture and Development

The Prince Claus Fund granted financial support for the production of a CD of Forgotten Cambodian Songs and an exhibition and a concert on the occasion of the CD’s launch.

www.princeclausfund.org

• Friends of Khmer Culture

Friends of Khmer Culture contributed to the production of a CD of Forgotten Cambodian Songs and to organizing an exhibition/concert event for the launching.

http://www.khmerculture.net/

• Arts Network Asia (ANA)

Arts Network Asia (ASA) a soutenu le Centre Bophana pour la production d’un documentaire et d’une publication sur l’atelier de création contemporaine « Cambodge, l’atelier de la mémoire » rassemblant une dizaine de jeunes artistes plasticiens cambodgiens autour de deux maîtres de la peinture cambodgienne Vann Nath et Séra. S’inspirant des archives audiovisuelles présentes dans la base de données du Centre Bophana, les jeunes artistes ont mené une réflexion sur les liens entre mémoire et création, un sujet particulièrement important dans un pays dont la mémoire est encore lourde de traumatismes.

http://www.artsnetworkasia.org

• Theatreworks – Flying Circus Project 2009

The Singaporean association Theatreworks has given its support to the Bophana Center for the production of a visual arts workshop on "Memory, Archives and Creation" in 2009, through the ANA network. In the frame of its Flying Circus Project 2009, it also organizes and supervises a video creation workshop at the Bophana Center on the question of Cambodian history, culture and issues gathering more than 15 artists and 15 Cambodian trainees.

http://www.theatreworks.org.sg

• La Banque ANZ Royal

The Australia and New Zealand Bank group has supported the Center in the purchase of audiovisual equipment in order to organize collective screenings and to work with scholars. In 2007, the group renewed its support to organize indoor screenings of archives.

www.anzroyal.com

• INEO Media System
  

The company INEO media system has given to the Center a digital Betacam player to help with the digitizing work of the collected archives.

www.ineoms.com