Due to scheduling conflicts, director Shivendra Singh Dungarpur can no longer be present.
This screening is part of the 2019 Archival Summer School hosted by IU Libraries Moving Image Archive and IU Cinema in partnership with FIAF, the International Federation of Film Archives.
Series: Additional Films and Guests
Celluloid Man is a documentary tribute to P.K. Nair, an extraordinary man who built the National Film Archive of India ‘can-by-can’ in a country where film preservation and restoration are completely disregarded. The film explores the early history of Indian cinema and highlights the importance of preserving our moving-image heritage before it is too late. The film premiered at the Il Cinema Ritrovato Festival in Bologna, Italy, in 2012 and won awards at India’s 60th National Film Awards in 2013. In English, Hindi, Bengali, Kannada, Malayalam, Japanese, and French with English subtitles.
