Since its inception in 2015, the training program has successfully traveled to cities like Pune, Chennai, Hyderabad and Kolkata and attracted support from film personalities like Shyam Benegal, Naseeruddin Shah, Kamal Haasan, Mani Ratnam, SS Rajamouli, Nagarjuna, Chiranjit, Prosen. Chatterjee and Goutam Ghose.

Designed by David Walsh, Training and Outreach Coordinator at FIAF, the workshop will include theory and practical group sessions on the conservation and restoration of celluloid and digital film and film-related materials such as paper, photographs and 3D objects.

In addition, the Regal Cinema in Mumbai will be screening restored classics from around the world daily.

Dungarpur said he was happy to see the workshop return after three years.

“It was 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 lost time and the lost momentum we had built up over six years of traveling the country and training.” more than 300 people in India and neighboring countries.

“The world stood still during the pandemic, but time did not stand still for the countless films that continue to be at risk of being lost,” the archivist said in a statement.

He added that the Film Conservation and Restoration Workshop has had a huge impact and is essential in building a pool of archivists to save the country’s film heritage.

“We would like to thank FIAF and Martin Scorsese and The Film Foundation’s World Cinema Project for their unwavering support since our first workshop. Special thanks to our wonderful faculty from leading film archives and museums around the world who took the time to come to India and share your knowledge and experience with our participants.

“Today, the Film Heritage Foundation is known around the world not only for this unique educational initiative, but also for our outstanding work including the archiving and preservation of films and film memorabilia, film restoration, festival curation, the oral history program and our publications,” said the 80-year-old actor .

Bachchan further said that he hoped the initiative would inspire the film fraternity and those who appreciate the film heritage of the country to come and support the Film Heritage Foundation.

Scorsese said The Film Foundation’s World Cinema Project has been a proud partner of the Film Heritage Foundation workshops in India since their inception in 2015.

To date, the workshops have given more than 300 participants the skills needed to preserve and restore films, he added.

“It is extremely gratifying to see how instrumental this initiative has been in creating 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 working to preserve the history of cinema in archives 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, UK, Switzerland and Germany , this is truly a global effort,” said the 79-year-old Scorsese.