Manipur Film Archivist honoured at Mumbai
- Mumbai, 08th December, 2022 -
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Johnson receiving the award from David Walsh, the FIAF Training and Outreach Coordinator and Boman Irani, acclaimed Indian actor
In the opening ceremony of the ongoing Film Preservation and Restoration workshop in Mumbai, a film archivist from Manipur, Johnson Rajkumar has been honoured for his remarkable contribution to the field of film archiving.
Johnson was awarded ‘Champions of Film Heritage Award’ by the Film Heritage Foundation with the citation that reads, ‘For his selfless commitment and courage in taking the road less travelled with limited support and resources and taking on the challenge of sparking a movement for film preservation and laying the foundation to building a film archive and training archivists in his home state of Manipur.’
The professionally trained film archivist, Johnson has been instrumental in setting up the film archive of Manipur and has been voluntarily working in SN Chand Cine Archive & Museum. He is currently participating in the ongoing Film Preservation and Restoration workshop as a Tata Trusts Scholar.
In the workshop, Johnson along with Film Heritage Foundation and experts from L'Immagine Ritrovata, Bologna are working to save the recently found reels of Mainu Pemcha (1948), the first feature film attempted of Manipur.
The workshop which commenced on December 4 is jointly organised by the Film Heritage Foundation in partnership with Martin Scorsese’s The Film Foundation (TFF) and the International Federation of Film Archives (FIAF), in association with the World Cinema Project.
* This info was sent to e-pao.net by Johnson Rajkumar who can be contacted at rajkumarjohnson(AT)gmail(DOT)com
This article was posted on December 09, 2022 .
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