Film industry should come forward to keep our film heritage intact: Kamal Haasan
Viacom18, India’s fastest growing media & entertainment network, today announced its support to the Film Heritage Foundation (FHF) for the annual Film Preservation & Restoration Workshop India 2017. The workshop will be held from October 7th to 14th in Chennai. The partnership was flagged off for the third consecutive year at an event held today in the city and was attended by Sudhanshu Vats, Group CEO, Viacom18, legendary actor & producer Kamal Haasan, renowned film-maker Mani Ratnam and celebrated filmmaker, archivist and Founder Director of FHF Shivendra Singh Dungarpur.
Speaking about the workshop, legendary film actor and producer Kamal Haasan said, “I am very happy and proud to know that the Film Heritage Foundation has decided to come to Chennai to run a workshop on film archiving. I’ve seen them do it once in Pune. There were about 50 students and I was moved really. The film industry should come forward to conserve, save and keep our film heritage intact. And this very important workshop is going to teach future archivists how to go about preserving film. It’s a very important workshop for those interested in cinema itself, cinema not only of today but of yesterday.
