Organised by Dungarpur-led non-profit organisation Film Heritage Foundation in partnership with Scorsese’s The Film Foundation (TFF) and the International Federation Of Film Archives (FIAF), the seventh version of the workshop shall be held from December 4 to 10 on the Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj Vastu Sangrahalay in Mumbai
Organised by Dungarpur-led non-profit organisation Film Heritage Foundation in partnership with Scorsese’s The Film Foundation (TFF) and the International Federation Of Film Archives (FIAF), the seventh version of the workshop shall be held from December 4 to 10 on the Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj Vastu Sangrahalay in Mumbai
Archivist Shivendra Singh Dungarpur, ace filmmaker Martin Scorsese and actor Amitabh Bachchan on Friday introduced the 2022 version of Film Preservation and Restoration Workshop.
Organised by the Dungarpur-led non-profit organisation Film Heritage Foundation in partnership with Scorsese’s The Film Foundation (TFF) and the International Federation Of Film Archives (FIAF), the seventh version of the workshop shall be held from December 4 to 10 on the Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj Vastu Sangrahalay (CSMVS Museum) in Mumbai.
Since its inception in 2015, the coaching programme has travelled efficiently to cities comparable to Pune, Chennai, Hyderabad, and Kolkata and attracted endorsements from movie luminaries like Shyam Benegal, Naseeruddin Shah, Kamal Haasan, Mani Ratnam, SS Rajamouli, Nagarjuna, Chiranjeevi, Prosenjit Chatterjee and Goutam Ghose.
Designed by David Walsh, coaching and outreach coordinator at FIAF, the workshop will embrace principle and sensible group periods concerning the preservation and restoration of celluloid and digital movies and film-related materials like paper, images, and 3D objects.
Besides, there shall be each day screenings of restored classics from all over the world at Regal Cinema, Mumbai.
These embrace 2021’s “Behula”, a uncommon Indian silent movie starring Patience Cooper, one of many earliest superstars of silent cinema in India. The line-up additionally options titles comparable to “A Hard Day’s Night” (1964), “Raging Bull” (1980), “In The Mood For Love” (2000), “Il Conformista” (1970) and “Thamp” (1978).
Dungarpur mentioned he’s glad the workshop is returning after a spot of three years.
“It’s been a monumental task to put the workshop together this year with very limited resources and climbing costs. But we knew we had to make up for the lost time and the lost momentum that we built up over six years travelling around the country and training over 300 people in India and the neighbouring countries.
“The world stopped through the pandemic, however time did not cease for the numerous movies that proceed to be in peril of being misplaced,” the archivist said in a statement.
He added that the Film Preservation and Restoration Workshop has had a tremendous impact and are crucial for building up a pool of archivists to save the country’s film heritage.
Bachchan, who has been a staunch supporter of FHF, said the training programme has sparked a movement for film preservation not just in India but in the neighbouring countries as well.
“We want to thank FIAF and Martin Scorsese and The Film Foundation’s World Cinema Project for his or her unfailing assist since our first workshop. Special due to our very good school from main movie archives and museums all over the world who take the time to come back to India and share their data and experience with our individuals.
“Today, Film Heritage Foundation is known around the world not just for this unique training initiative, but for our sterling work including the archiving and conservation of films and film-related memorabilia, film restoration, curation of festivals, our oral history programme and our publications,” the 80-year-old actor mentioned.
Bachchan additional mentioned he hopes the initiative will encourage the movie fraternity and those that worth the nation’s movie heritage to come back ahead and assist Film Heritage Foundation.
Scorsese mentioned The Film Foundation’s World Cinema Project has been a proud companion of the Film Heritage Foundation’s movie preservation and restoration workshops in India since they started in 2015.
Till date, the workshops have given over 300 individuals the abilities essential to protect and restore movement footage, he added.
“It’s tremendously gratifying to see how instrumental this initiative has been in generating the strong interest in film preservation that we’re currently witnessing in India and its neighbouring countries.
“Local archivists educated on the workshops are actually working to safeguard cinema historical past at archives in India, Sri Lanka, Bangladesh, and Nepal. This 12 months, functions may also be open to residents of Middle Eastern international locations, and with school from the US, Italy, Portugal, France, the UK, Switzerland and Germany, that is actually a world effort,” Scorsese, 79, mentioned.
Source: www.thehindu.com
