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  • The fifth edition of the Film Preservation & Restoration Workshop India (FPRWI) 2019 is being held December 8 to 15

    Viacom18 & Film Heritage Foundation hold annual workshop in Hyd

    By A Correspondent

     

    The fifth edition of the Film Preservation & Restoration Workshop India (FPRWI) 2019 was inaugurated at Hyderabad’s State Gallery of Art on Sunday. Supported by Viacom18, this initiative of Film Heritage Foundation (FHF) and International Federation of Film Archives (FIAF) in collaboration with Annapurna Studios is being held December 8 to 15.

     

    Commenting on bringing the workshop to Hyderabad this year, Shivendra Singh Dungarpur, Founder & Director, Film Heritage Foundation, said: “Over the last four years, we’ve been the Pied Pipers of film heritage drawing over 200 conservators, librarians, film scholars, academics, cinematographers, editors, colourists and technicians into our fold, eager to learn to save remarkable film patrimonies from our part of the world and showcase the richness and diversity of a heritage that has been lying dormant and forgotten for decades. And this number will cross the 270 mark this year. We are now ready to consolidate and build the country’s first world-class Centre of the Moving Image, an institution devoted to the art of film and we hope that we can count on the support of the film industry, the government and the public to make our vision a reality.”

     

    Speaking on the association with this initiative, Sudhanshu Vats, Group CEO and MD, Viacom18, added:, “India is a country of storytellers and the oldest stories in the world originate from here. Over the years, our cinema has portrayed the culture and heritage of India. At Viacom18, we realise the importance of preserving these stories that form a part of the Indian culture for the benefit of our future generations. As India’s foremost storytellers, we connect deeply with this ethos and our support to Film Heritage Foundation is a conflux of this shared sentiment. The Film Preservation & Restoration Workshop is a step in that direction and we at Viacom18 are proud to be associated with this initiative.”

     

     

  • The workshop will be conducted in Hyderabad from December 8 to 15, 2019

    Viacom18 partners with Film Heritage Foundation for industry workshop

    By A Correspondent

     

    Viacom18 and Film Heritage Foundation (FHF) have announced the 5th Film Preservation & Restoration Workshop India 2019 (FPRWI) in Hyderabad. Actors Nagarjuna and Amala were present to announce the workshop along with founder of Film Heritage Foundation, Shivendra Singh Dungarpur, Sudhanshu Vats, Group CEO and MD, Viacom18 and Jayesh Ranjan, Principal Secretary, Government of Telangana.

     

    The workshop will take place in Hyderabad, India from December 8 to 15, 2019 and will have participation from India, Sri Lanka, Nepal, Bangladesh, Bhutan and for the first time from Afghanistan. FPRWI 2019 will focus on the need to skill and train a resource of archivists to take on the challenge of preserving and archiving film heritage.

     

    Said Sudhanshu Vats, Group CEO and MD, Viacom18: “Cinema is an integral part of our country’s cultural DNA and we owe it to our future generations to pass it on. This is the reason why we have continued to partner with the Film Heritage Foundation. This time we have extended our partnership to bring our message of preservation and training in this specialized field to the Telugu Film industry that has been an integral part of Indian cinema and has given the industry a galaxy of talented directors, actors and musicians not only on a regional level but also for the Indian film industry at large. Eminent film makers like Raghupati Venkaiah Naidu, H.M. Reddy, B.N. Reddy, Akkineni Nageswara Rao, L.V. Prasad, D. Ramanaidu, Ramoji Rao and N.T. Rama Rao et al were not just revered across the world as film personalities but also shaped the discourse of socio-political culture both within and outside of India. At Viacom18, we understand and believe it’s imperative that we preserve and restore the work done by these great personalities.”

     

     

  • The fourth Film Preservation & Restoration Workshop to Kolkata aims to advocate and build awareness on the importance of preserving cinematic heritage within the Bengali Film Fraternity

    Viacom18 & Film Heritage Foundation take workshop series to Cal

    By A Correspondent

     

    In line with the centenary celebration of the Bengali Film Industry, and with a purpose to encourage and give an impetus to film preservation and restoration, the fourth edition of Film Preservation & Restoration Workshop India (FPRWI) 2018 was inaugurated in Kolkata on Thursday. Supported by Viacom18, this initiative of Film Heritage Foundation (FHF) and International Federation of Film Archives (FIAF) is being held in association with the Kolkata International Film Festival. The workshop startedon November 15 and will continue till November 22.

     

    With this edition of the workshop, a programme to restore 100 Bengali films such as Tapan Sinha’s Kabuliwala, P.C. Barua’s Devdas and Ajoy Kar’s Saat Paake Bandha, amongst others will be initiated.

     

    Speaking at the occasion, Sudhanshu Vats, Group CEO and MD Designate, Viacom18, said: “At Viacom18 we believe in the power of synergies and the way our association has shaped up over the past three years is an apt example of harnessing the ability of the collective for the greater good. With collaboration of Government bodies, film fraternity, the international community of film restoration experts and cinema enthusiasts, we have been able to create an ecosystem that understands the importance of cinema as a cultural relic and is equipped to preserve and archive it, for future generations. With the past three editions of the workshop in Mumbai, Pune and Chennai, we are proud to now have created a pool of about 200 individuals who are aware and equipped to preserve films across India.”

     

    Added Shivendra Singh Dungarpur, Founder & Director, Film Heritage Foundation: “Film preservation is a highly specialized field that requires trained archivists. The goal of these annual intensive workshops has been to create awareness about the urgent need to save our film heritage as well as to create a resource of trained archivists who can take this forward. After the success of the first three editions, we are thankful to the Government of West Bengal for their support towards bringing FPRWI to the Kolkata and we are encouraged by their decision to make the preservation of their film heritage a priority.”

     

     

  • Workshop to be conducted in Kolkata from November 15 to 22, 2018

    Viacom18 partners with Film Heritage Foundation for Workshop

    By A Correspondent

     

    Celebrating a century of Bengali cinema, Viacom18 and Film Heritage Foundation (FHF) announces the fourth edition of the Film Preservation & Restoration Workshop India 2018 (FPRWI) in Kolkata. After partnering with the FHF for the past three years, supporting the workshop in Mumbai, Pune and Chennai, the objective of FPRWI 2018 is to create awareness on the urgent need to preserve the moving image heritage in the Bengali film industry thereby, making it accessible to global audiences.

     

    Speaking about the Film Preservation & Restoration Workshop, Sudhanshu Vats, Group CEO and Managing Director Designate, Viacom18 said: “India is a country of epic tales that weave through every aspect of our life. Our cinema has been one of the foremost tools of bringing these stories to form our nation’s collective consciousness, across regions and languages. For close to two and a half decades, starting circa 1950, Bengali cinema moulded this collective conscious as it saw a galaxy of talented directors, actors and musicians shape not only the region’s cinema but also setting the narrative for progressive Indian cinema. Personalities like Satyajit Ray, Ritwick Ghatak, Mrinal Sen, Uttam Kumar, Aparna Sen, Sharmila Tagore et al not only were revered throughout the world as film personalities but also shaped the discourse of socio-political culture both within and outside of India. Their works define our times and as such it is imperative that we preserve and restore them so that the generations to come appreciate our rich cultural heritage. It is this single philosophy that prompted us to partner Film Heritage Foundation through the last three years and after Maharashtra and Tamil Nadu, bring the Film Preservation & Restoration Workshop to the Bengali film industry.”

     

    The workshop will take place in Kolkata from November 15 – 22, 2018.

     

     

  • Applications are open for The Film Preservation ​and ​Restoration Workshop India 2017 on www.filmheritagefoundation.co.in or www.fiafnet.org.​

    Viacom18 ​p​artners with Film Heritage Foundation to​ ​s​ave ​c​inematic ​h​eritage

    By A Correspondent​

     

    Film-maker Mani Ratnam, acto​r-​producer Kamal Hasaan, Viacom18 Group CEO Sudhanshu Vats and Shivendra Singh Dungarpur​, ​Founder Director of Film Heritage Foundation, unveiling the poster for Film Preservation & Restoration Workshop India 2017

    With ​an aim to preserve India’s cinematic heritage, Viacom18 ​ announced its support to the Film Heritage Foundation (FHF) for the annual Film Preservation ​and ​Restoration Workshop India 2017. The workshop will be held from October 7 ​t​o 14 in Chennai. The partnership was flagged off for the third consecutive year at an event held ​in Chennai and was attended by Sudhanshu Vats, Group CEO, Viacom18, legendary actor ​and producer Kamal Haasan, film-maker Mani Ratnam and film-maker, archivist and Founder Director of Film Heritage Foundation, Shivendra Singh Dungarpur.

    ​Said Sudhanshu Vats, Group CEO, Viacom18​: “At the heart of it, civilis​ation is a chronicle of stories across generations. As India’s foremost storytellers we connect deeply with this ethos and our support to Film Heritage Foundation is a confluence of this shared belief. India’s culture and heritage is captured creatively and reflected through our films and these, therefore, become historical artefacts representative of the times they were created in. It is pertinent that this content is preserved for reference as well as archived for perusal by future generations​.”

    Applications are open for The Film Preservation ​and ​Restoration Workshop India 2017 on www.filmheritagefoundation.co.in or www.fiafnet.org. The workshop will take place from October 7 ​to 14 , 2017 in Chennai.