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Established | 19 January 1979 (as the Film Library of the Motion Picture Development Foundation) |
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Mission | Film preservation and restoration |
Chair | LAN Tsu-wei |
Chief of Executive | Louis C. Lee |
Budget | NT$170 million p.a.[1] |
Formerly called | Film Library of the Motion Picture Development Foundation National Film Archive Chinese Taipei Film Archive Taiwan Film Institute |
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Website | www.tfi.org.tw |
The Taiwan Film and Audiovisual Institute (TFAI; traditional Chinese: 國家電影及視聽文化中心; simplified Chinese: 国家电影及视听文化中心; pinyin: Guójiā Diànyǐng Jí Shìtīng Wénhuà Zhōngxīn; lit. 'National Film and Audiovisual Culture Center'), formerly Taiwan Film Institute (TFI; traditional Chinese: 國家電影中心; simplified Chinese: 国家电影中心; pinyin: Guójiā Diànyǐng Zhōngxīn; lit. 'National Film Center'), is a foundation in Zhongzheng District, Taipei, Taiwan, that aims to preserve Taiwanese and Mandarin films. At its establishment in 1979, the foundation was known as the Film Library of the Motion Picture Development Foundation. It became the National Film Archive in 1989, and the Chinese Taipei Film Archive later.