BFI announces partnership with HP

On 22 February the BFI and Hewlett-Packard announced a new two-year partnership. HP will be the Principal Sponsor of BFI Southbank and one of the Main Sponsors of The Times BFI London Film Festival. The partnership will result in greater public access to the BFI National Archive through the use of HP digital technology. A cornerstone of this project is the new Mediatheque at BFI Southbank – HP is providing the technology to allow visitors to choose from initially hundreds and eventually thousands of films and TV programmes that have never or rarely been seen since they were originally made. HP will also make available consultancy services to help the BFI design a database to manage its digital collections.