[9] The foundation also runs education and training programmes and regularly holds workshops on film conservation and preservation and restoration around the country.
[12] The foundation initiated an oral history project in 2018, in which it interviewed at length, for a permanent historical and cultural record, some of the most eminent film personalities of India, including Adoor Gopalakrishnan, Buddhadeb Dasgupta, Mani Ratnam, Amitabh Bachchan, Soumitra Chatterjee, Goutam Ghose and Aparna Sen.[13][14] The foundation in the past has been supported by Tata Trusts with a three-year grant in 2017 to provide scholarships for participants at their annual film preservation and restoration workshops.
Sippy, Buddhadeb Dasgupta, Goutam Ghose, Bhimsain Khurana, Chitra Palekar, Onir, Shaad Ali, Sumitra Bhave and Sunil Sukhthankar.
[20] The foundation also archives film-related memorabilia like posters, photographs, scripts, lobby cards, song booklets and artefacts of eminent film personalities.
[21] The foundation has a rapidly expanding archive of film-related memorabilia that includes posters, photographs, scripts, lobby cards, song booklets, cameras, projectors and artefacts of eminent film personalities like A.R.
The mission is to record, collect and preserve audio and video interviews with the men and women who form the rich fabric of filmmaking history - from designers, documentarians and executives to actors, animators, technicians and composers.
One of Japan's top film reviewers and scholars, Tadao Sato, described "Kummatty" as masterpiece and said he had never seen a more beautiful movie in his entire life.
Ltd. and Fondazione Cineteca di Bologna, two of FHF's partners, Martin Scorsese's The Film Foundation's World Cinema Project was given permission to restore the movie by General Pictures producer K. Ravindranathan Nair.
At Chennai's Prasad Studios, the sound and picture were scanned, and hours of physical labour went into the image stabilisation and digital repair of tears and scratches.
The outdoor landscapes in the print that FHF worked on were full of high contrast images with very dark blacks and very bright whites and no mid-tones or shadow details.
The negative had vinegar syndrome decay on reels, mold and warping, broken perforations, scratches, emulsion halos, and base distortion.
Film Heritage Foundation conservators worked hard to repair the negative before scanning it with a wet-gate scanner at L'Immagine Ritrovata in Bologna.
[37] The real problem was using inter-negative in the original camera negative, which caused grainy image quality and didn't match the rest of the film.
Ltd.’s Post – Studios, Chennai and L’Immagine Ritrovata Laboratory, in association with Gujarat Co-operative Milk Marketing Federation Ltd. (Amul), the cinematographer Govind Nihalani and the director Shyam Benegal.
2 each to fund the making of Manthan.The film, shot in Sanganava, a village 26 miles from Rajkot, Gujarat, stars Girish Karnad, Naseeruddin Shah, Smita Patil, Mohan Agashe, Amrish Puri and Kulbhushan Kharbanda.
The screening was preceded by a conversation with Shyam Benegal, Naseeruddin Shah, Kulbhushan Kharbanda, Abha Dhulia, Shama Zaidi and Prahlad Kakkar moderated by Shivendra Singh Dungarpur.
[42] From October 8 to October 11, 2022, 11 Amitabh Bachchan blockbusters screened as part of the "Bachchan Back to the Beginning" festival in 17 Indian cities and 22 theaters, ranging from large cities like Mumbai, Delhi, Kolkata, Bengaluru, and Hyderabad to smaller towns like Ahmedabad, Surat, Baroda, Raipur, Kanpur, Kolhapur, Prayagraj, and Indore.
[45] A special screening of the original “Don" (1978) directed by Chandra Barot was introduced by Zeenat Aman followed by a conversation with FHF Director Shivendra Singh Dungarpur at Regal Cinema, Mumbai on 29 September 2023.
Shivendra Singh Dungarpur travelled to Nantes to present the films along with filmmakers Saeed Akhtar Mirza, Sanjiv Shah and Sai Paranjpye.
[56][57][58] Film Heritage Foundation in collaboration with the Goethe-Institut / Max Mueller Bhavan Mumbai conducted a 2-day Workshop for the Preservation of Audio and Videotapes in 2020.
[61] Narinder Singh, acclaimed sound recordist who worked on films like Mani Kaul’s avant-garde feature 'Uski Roti' (1969), Kumar Shahani’s debut 'Maya Darpan' (1972), was the Chief Guest for the closing ceremony to hand over the FIAF certificates to the participants.
[62] The 7th edition was an advanced course that was open to applicants from India, Sri Lanka, Nepal, Bhutan, Bangladesh and for the first time, the Middle East.
In a gesture of goodwill, FHF donated the first two rewinding tables to the new archive, which were transported by road in a journey that took 21 days from Mumbai to Imphal.