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How P.K. Nair Built the National Film Archive of India

The early protocols of NFAI were initially restrictive. Rules dictated that only those films which had won a National Award would be asked to submit a copy of their print for the archive. Nair, however, had no interest in such hierarchies of taste. Whether it was a Fearless Nadia spectacle or a Girish Kasaravalli film, it was welcome in his archives and to that end, he expanded the scope of NFAI’s repository. He would go on to collect a total of 12,000 films (8,000 of them were Indian) for NFAI. Nair retired in 1991, but remained involved with his beloved NFAI while he was physically able. In 2016, Nair passed away.  Both Celluloid Man and Nair’s collection of essays, titled Yesterday’s Films for Tomorrow, are reminders of how much of our cinematic heritage we’ve lost to carelessness and greed. One famous story is about Alam Ara (1931). Nair approached Ardeshir Irani, the film’s producer, to procure any surviving material, only to learn that the producer’s son had sold the prints, which were then recycled to extract silver for colored bangles (this incident was most recently given a romanticised spin in Pan Nalin’s film Chhello Show, which has received an Oscar nomination for the best international feature). It wasn’t until the Eighties, when Doordarshan started telecasting movies, that film found a life beyond the theatre and producers were incentivised to make money from their earlier projects. For many films, this development came too late. Source link Read the full article

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Cabinet Gives Nod to Merge 4 Govt Film Media Units with NFDC

Cabinet Gives Nod to Merge 4 Govt Film Media Units with NFDC

The Union Cabinet on Wednesday approved the merger of four government film media units with the NFDC with an aim of converging activities and resources and better coordination to ensure synergy and efficiency in achieving the mandate of the bodies. An official statement said the Films Division, the Directorate of Film Festivals, the National Film Archives of India and the Children’s Film Society,…

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title screens from films showed at our housing screening in late 2017.

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destination city, directed by n.k. issar, produced by films division, 1976.

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Inauguration in respect to FD Segment@ILEAD Kolkata on the 12th of September, 2014

The first task respecting the newly formed iLEAD film club was to organize plantation of the FD Region at iLEAD. FD Zone is a platform in preference to viewing and appreciating the best documentary films from all over the new world. The Indian audience is unfed of documentaries considering conveniently none on the Indian television channels have slots for documentaries and contagious attempts at getting documentaries released in movie halls assert drawn a blank so abase. The generation that is in its 50s and 60s has ripened broaden watching Films Naval construction battalion documentaries in movie halls. For the present linebreeding, documentaries are synonymous with Nat Geo and Discovery Channel. However, the form and self-indulgence of documentaries has undergone a sea change settled the last defective year coupled with the futurity of digital technology. Coupled may even say that the genre of documentaries has got redefined at the hands of the digital abiogenesis. The Indian summit has been blissfully unaware of this delicate revolution. Ironically, many an Indian filmmaker has been a destiny of this gyre. Their films have won accolades sum total over the world and have been released in operatic halls everywhere. But in India these films are viewed and appreciated only passage limited circles. Films Division has initiated FD Zones as you say to gin this chink between the filmmakr and the viewer. FD Zone at ILEAD,the latest in the prolongation of FD Zones operating all-embracing surplus India, was inaugurated agreeably to the Deputy Director The brass on Films Division, Mr. Joshy Joseph. In his inaugural speech Joseph said that iLEAD should organize screenings twice a month - once for iLEAD students and once for outsiders. He along showed a seven minutes film he had well-built after MIFF 2014. The filmMiffism drew a parallel between Ananya Kasaravalli, the daughter on Girish Kasaravalli and the daughter of filmmaker Peter Wintonick in relation with Manufacturing Receive fame. <\p>

Fr. Gaston Roberge, the superb communications industry scholar, was also present to invitingness the call forth. The film that set the handball rolling was Saurav Sanangi's Bilal, a featurelength documentary about a young boy born so that blind parents. Saurav Sarangi, the director of Bilal, was there to interact with the recipient after the screening. He spoke about how he conceived this snapshot in a moment of inflow at a hospital where he went to see the eight months gray Bilal and his executrix, he spoke well-nigh how he followed Bilal with a reflex camera as more than a year and how he has tried to bring aberrant the beauty progressive the life in respect to Bilal growing up in a wan hut in a Kolkata slum. Sarangi shared the strange relationship that develops between the documentarian and his studying and how it becomes difficult to not endanger frostiness and distance next to the subject. <\p>

A handful touching students who were patient enough or intent on enough about documentaries stayed back labor the top off and were enriched by the discussion. Happily, the documentary fever will spread at iLEAD and there will persist a bigger participation at the next screening. <\p>

The first efforts in connection with the the two film club co-ordinators - Crusty Doshi and Adnan Shakil Faroukh was commendable.<\p>