Archival & Preservation

Here is how this works in practice. We deliver archive and preservation services from facilities in Warsaw and Łódź, securing finished masters, camera originals and project data for the long term. Our team builds LTO tape archives with verified checksums and redundant copies, organises digital asset running with steady metadata, and documents the archive so material stays discoverable and restorable years later. We follow recognised preservation practice — many copies, geographic separation and periodic integrity checks — and prepare assets for migration as storage technology evolves.

Łódź — home of the legendary national film school. The Opus Film studio behind the Oscar-winning 'Ida' and 'Cold War' — concentrates strong post and archive talent. Data handling follows GDPR and the oversight of UODO, the Polish data-protection authority. This is key where shoots store personal data alongside media. We quote budgets in Polish złoty with 23% VAT applied.

Here is the short of it. Poland takes audiovisual preservation seriously. FINA — the National Film Archive and Audiovisual Institute — preserves and digitises the country's cinematic and broadcast heritage, restoring classic Polish titles for festival retrospectives and streaming reissue, and it sets the benchmark for preservation-grade standards that commercial archives follow. The country's film legacy is big: Roman Polański's 'The Pianist', Andrzej Wajda's body of work, and Paweł Pawlikowski's 'Ida' and 'Cold War' are part of a heritage worth safeguarding to the highest standard.

Here is the breakdown. TVP, the public TV networks running TVP1, TVP2 and TVP Kultura, keeps wide archive holdings, and the Gdynia Film Festival and EnergaCAMERIMAGE in Toruń keep restored Polish cinema in public view. We deliver durable, well-logged archives that protect a production's value for decades and stay ready for future restoration and reissue.