Paulin S. Vieyra Collection: Processing and Digitization

FAIN: PW-290482-23

Trustees of Indiana University (Bloomington, IN 47405-7000)
Amber Bertin (Project Director: July 2022 to September 2023)
Novotny Lawrence (Project Director: September 2023 to present)

The processing and digitization of the Paulin S. Vieyra Collection documenting the life and career of the African filmmaker. 

The Black Film Center & Archive at Indiana University seeks support from the NEH Humanities Collections and Reference Resources Implementation Grant program for the Paulin S. Vieyra Collection: Processing and Digitization project. The project proposes to process the collection of Senegalese filmmaker and historian, Paulin S. Vieyra (1925-1987), to produce and publish a comprehensive finding aid, and to digitize 24,604 unique items in the collection for free public access online.