Film Heritage Foundation

District

Mumbai

States

Maharashtra

Film Heritage Foundation is dedicated to preserving film heritage. Its activities encompass collecting, cataloguing, and digitizing films and related materials to ensure their timeless quality endures. This involves acquiring and documenting films, conserving them in their original format with optimal storage methods, and digitizing the material for improved public access. Additionally, the Foundation is committed to the ongoing quest for India's lost films, working on their recovery, preservation, and restoration. Currently, it safeguards the founder's personal collection of Indian and foreign films, along with film-related memorabilia, in a controlled vault. Furthermore, the Film Heritage Foundation offers support and technical guidance to studios, archives, and copyright holders to enhance film preservation and restoration practices.

District

Mumbai

States

Maharashtra

Film Heritage Foundation acknowledges film's fragility and the urgent need for restoration. The film, susceptible to scratches and deterioration, requires meticulous restoration, preserving the creator's intent and artistic integrity. Presently, restoration in India falls short, often limited to digital scans. Film Heritage Foundation's future plans involve international collaboration, advanced technology, workshops, and seminars to establish a cutting-edge film restoration facility, safeguarding India's cinematic heritage from potential loss.

District

Mumbai

States

Maharashtra

Film Heritage Foundation is committed to enhancing education through the power of the moving image. Recognizing its potential for communication, comprehension, and fostering literacy, as well as its role in analyzing social and cultural history, the organisation aims to create educational modules and raise awareness about cinema's language. Its objectives include developing modules to teach the history and evolution of cinema, conducting film appreciation courses nationwide, hosting workshops on conservation, preservation, and restoration, using film in interdisciplinary programmes for enhanced learning, advocating for film history and archiving in university curricula, and establishing a systematic programme for educating film preservation professionals, ensuring ongoing skill development in this evolving field.

District

Mumbai

States

Maharashtra

Film Heritage Foundation places significant emphasis on training future film archivists due to the critical shortage of skilled individuals in the field of film preservation. In collaboration with FIAF, it has been organising annual film preservation and restoration workshops across various Indian cities since 2015, with upcoming sessions planned. These workshops extend their reach to neighbouring countries such as Sri Lanka, Nepal, Bangladesh, Bhutan, Myanmar, and Malaysia, where the shortage of trained personnel for preserving audiovisual heritage is also a concern. This concerted effort aims to address the pressing need for well-trained professionals in the field.