Few books were purchased by the trust: Shrinathji: Prakatya evam Mewar Yatra, Knowledge Encyclopedia Human Body, Why answers to everything, DK Find out: Science, Earth, Animals and Solar System, Breaking India: Westerm Interventions in Dravidian and Dalit Faultlines, Bhim Singh: A romance of mughal times, Mewar ki gaurv gathayen, Being in it and being of it: Conversation at the Kumbh, Allahabad, 2013- 8 Volume Set.

Film Preservation and Restoration Workshop

To celebrate the 100 years of Cinema in Bengal, Film Heritage Foundation, Mumbai organised 4th Film Preservation and Restoration Workshop in Kolkata from 15-22nd November 2018.

FPRWI 2018 is an initiative of Film Heritage Foundation and FIAF, in association with The Academy of Motion Picture, Arts & Sciences, L'Immagine Ritrovata, Fondazione Cineteca di Bologna, British Film Institute, The Criterion Collection, the Irish Film Institute, the Austrian Film Museum, Eye Filmmuseum, Bundesarchiv (German Federal Archives), the Indiana University Libraries Moving Image Archive, Centre for Creative Photography, University of Arizona, and ARRI.

The intensive week-long workshop, certified by FIAF, covered both lectures and practical classes in the best practices of the preservation and restoration of both films and film-related paper and photographic material and taught by a faculty of international experts from leading institutions around the world.Classes were followed by daily screenings of restored classics from around the world.

Mr. Prashant Lohar, Archives and Conservation Assistant, The City Palace Museum, Udaipur represented MMCF. Mr. Shivendra Singh Dungarpur, Founder Director Film Heritage Foundation, Indian filmmaker, Producer, Film archivist and restorer; Mr. Gautam Ghosh, Film Director, Music Director and Cinematographer of Modern India, Mrs. Mamta Shankar, Actress of Mr. Satyajit Ray's films and Renowned Dancer actor, Mr. Christophe Dupin, FIAF and Mr. David Walsh, FIAF 'International Federation of film Archives' Training and Outreach Coordinator felicitated the participants.