State film archivist honoured in Mumbai
Source: Chronicle News Service

Mumbai, December 08 2022: In the opening ceremony of the ongoing Film Preservation and Restoration workshop in Mumbai, Manipuri film archivist Johnson Rajkumar has been honoured for his remarkable contribution in 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 at SN Chand Cine Archive & Museum.

He is currently participating in the ongoing Film Preserva-tion and Restoration workshop as a Tata Trust scholar.

In the workshop, Johnson along with Film Heritage Foundation and experts from L'Immagine Ritrovata, Bologna is working to save the recently found reels of 'Mainu Pemcha' (1948), the first feature film attempt of Manipur.

The workshop, which commenced on December 4, is being organised by Film Heritage Foundation in partnership with Martin Scorsese's The Film Foundation (TFF) and International Federation of Film Archives (FIAF), and in association with the World Cinema Project.

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