The Fellini Foundation for Cinema owns a collection of almost 16,000 documents, photos, drawings, scripts and original film footage relating to Federico Fellini (more than 10,000 of the 16,000) and a hundred directors, including Sergei Eisenstein, Charlie Chaplin, Orson Welles, Henri Verneuil, Pier Paolo Pasolini, Claude Lelouch, Claude Berri, Robert Altman, Francesco Rosi, Jean-Jacques Annaud, Richard Donner, Andreï Tarkovski, Nikita Mikhalkov, Jean-Luc Godard and David Lynch.
The collection is mainly devoted to Fellini's work and includes :
- film scripts
- 800 still photographs
- several hundred original drawings
- 300 posters
- artefacts, set elements and costumes
- 1,600 letters
- 5,000 press and production documents (articles, reviews, shooting budgets and plans, etc.)
- 500 monographs
- several complete collections of magazines (Cahiers du cinéma), slide shows, teaching materials, etc.
This collection, the only one of its kind in the world, has been fully catalogued and the main items digitised to make them accessible to the public (the collection can be visited on request).