Shivendra Singh Dungarpur

Shivendra Singh Dungarpur (born 25 August, 1969) is an Indian filmmaker, conservator-restorer, archivist, and the founder of Film Heritage Foundation. In 2012, he won two National Film Awards for his documentary Celluloid Man, based on the life of noted film scholar, preservationist and the founder of National Film Archive of India, P.K. Nair.
==Early life==
Dungarpur was born in Patna and attended The Doon School in Dehradun. He went to St. Stephen's College, Delhi to study history and later enrolled for the course in scriptwriting and film direction at the Film and Television Institute of India, Pune.
==Work==
Dungarpur worked in advertising before directing his first documentary in 2012, called Celluloid Man, which won the National Film Award for Best Biographical Film and National Film Award for Best Historical Reconstruction/Compilation Film. In 2014, Dungarpur founded the Film Heritage Foundation to preserve and restore historic and classic Indian films that were in danger of being lost forever. In 2010, Dungarpur was approached by Martin Scorsese's organization World Cinema Project, which was interested in restoring the 1947 Hindi classic Kalpana. In the end, the project was successful in restoring the only surviving print of the film, and the film was screened at Cannes Classics 2012. The foundation's currently has about 500 films, including Satyajit Ray's Pather Panchali, Raj Kapoor's Shree 420, Akira Kurosawa's Rashomon and Sergei Eisenstein's Battleship Potempkin.
Dungarpur's second documentary The Immortals was commissioned by the Busan International Film Festival in 2015. The subject is the history of Indian cinema, spanning almost hundred years, and is covered through depiction of significant historical objects and voice-over narration. In 2018, Dungarpur released the 420-minute documentary CzechMate: In Search of Jiri Menzel, based on the life of Czech film and theatre director, screenwriter, and actor, Jiří Menzel. The seven-hour-long film was shot over six years and features extensive interviews with Woody Allen, Ken Loach, and Emir Kasturica. In 2018, Dungarpur was invited by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences to speak about his efforts in preserving India's cinematic heritage, which was followed by a screening of his documentary Celluloid Man .
==Awards==
*2012 - Celluloid Man - National Film Award for Best Biographical Filmhttp://www.filmfed.org/NFAW2012.pdf
*2012 - Celluloid Man - National Film Award for Best Historical Reconstruction/Compilation Film
==Filmography==
Year	Film 	Notes
2012	Celluloid Man 	Documentary
2015	The Immortals 	Documentary
2018	CzechMate: In Search of Jirí Menzel	Documentary
==In the media==
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== References ==
==External links==
* About the Founder Director - Film Heritage Foundation
* Shivendra Singh Dungarpur on twitter
* Shivendra Singh Dungarpur - IMDb
* Dungarpur Films | About
* Shivendra Singh Dungarpur on linkedin
* Kamal Haasan is the only filmmaker who's passionate about film heritage: Shivendra Singh Dungarpur
* Shivendra Singh Dungarpur: Cold storage - Livemint
* Meet Shivendra Singh Dungarpur: the man behind the preservation of India’s film heritage
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Category:University of Delhi alumni
Category:Film and Television Institute of India alumni
Category:The Doon School alumni
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Category:Indian film directors
Category:Indian film producers
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Category:Film producers from Mumbai
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Category:20th-century Indian film directors
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Category:National Film Award (India) winners