Archivist Shivendra Singh Dungarpur, famous filmmaker Martin Scorsese and megastar Amitabh Bachchan on Friday introduced the 2022 version of the Film Preservation and Restoration Workshop.
Organized by the Dungarpur-led non-profit group Film Heritage Foundation in partnership with Scorsese’s The Film Foundation (TFF) and International Federation of Film Archives (FIAF), the seventh version of the workshop shall be held in Chhatrapati from December 4 to 10. Shivaji Maharaj Vastu Sangrahalaya (CSMVS Museum).
Since its inception in 2015, the coaching program has efficiently traveled to cities like Pune, Chennai, Hyderabad and Kolkata and obtained assist from movie stalwarts like Shyam Benegal, Naseeruddin Shah, Kamal Haasan, Mani Ratnam, SS Rajamouli, Nagarjuna, Chiranjeevi, Prosenjit have obtained. Chatterjee and Goutam Ghosh.
Designed by David Walsh, coaching and outreach coordinator at FIAF, the workshop will embrace concept and sensible group classes concerning the conservation and restoration of celluloid and digital movies and film-related supplies akin to paper, pictures and 3D objects.
In addition, there shall be day by day screenings of restored classics from around the globe at Regal Cinemas, Mumbai. These embrace 2021’s Behula, a uncommon Indian silent movie starring Dhairya Cooper, one of many earliest superstars of silent cinema in India. The line-up additionally consists of titles akin to A Hard Day’s Night (1964), Raging Bull (1980), In the Mood for Love (2000), Il Conformista (1970) and Thump (1978).
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Shivendra Singh Dungarpur mentioned that he’s completely satisfied that the workshop is returning after a niche of three years. “Putting the workshop collectively this 12 months with very restricted assets and climbing prices has been an vital job. But we knew we must make up for the misplaced time and misplaced pace, which we’d have spent touring throughout the nation in six years. and skilled greater than 300 individuals in India and neighboring international locations.
“While the world has stopped during the pandemic, time hasn’t stopped for the countless films that are at risk of being lost,” Archivist mentioned in an announcement. He mentioned that the Film Preservation and Restoration Workshop has had an amazing affect and is vital for constructing a pool of archivists to avoid wasting the movie heritage of the nation.
Amitabh Bachchan, who has been a staunch supporter of FHF, mentioned the coaching program has sparked a motion for movie preservation not solely in India but additionally in neighboring international locations. “We wish to thank the World Cinema Project of FIAF and Martin Scorsese and The Film Foundation for his or her continued assist since our first workshop. Special because of our illustrious college of main movie archives and museums from around the globe who take the time to go to India and share their information and experience with our individuals.
“Today, the Film Heritage Foundation is known around the world not only for this unique training initiative, but also for the collection and preservation of films and memorabilia related to film, film restoration, festival periods, our oral history program and our sterling work. Publishing,” mentioned the 80-year-old actor.
Bachchan additional mentioned that he hopes this initiative will encourage the movie fraternity and those that worth the movie heritage of the nation to return ahead and assist the Film Heritage Foundation.
Martin Scorsese mentioned the Film Foundation’s World Cinema Project has been a proud participant of the Film Heritage Foundation’s movie preservation and restoration workshops in India since its launch in 2015. So far, the workshops have given over 300 individuals the abilities wanted to protect and restore movement. image, he added.
“It is heartening to see how important this initiative is in generating the strong interest in film preservation that we are currently witnessing in India and its neighboring countries. Local archivists trained in the workshops are now in India, Sri Lanka, Bangladesh and Nepal. This year, applications will also be open to residents of Middle Eastern countries, and with faculty from the US, Italy, Portugal, France, the UK, Switzerland and Germany, This is a truly global effort,” Scorsese, 79, mentioned.
With inputs from TheIndianEXPRESS
