Film Preservation & Restoration Workshop India 2016 (FPRWI 2016) is a 10-day workshop conducted by Film Heritage Foundation in partnership with the National Film Archive of India (NFAI) and International Federation of Film Archives (FIAF) at NFAI, Pune in association with George Eastman Museum, L’Immagine Ritrovata and The Film Foundation’s World Cinema Project.
FPRWI 2016 is a more advanced and intensive course than the first edition with a wider scope that includes the preservation of both filmic and non-filmic material and a greater focus on hands-on training.
The faculty includes David Walsh, the head of the FIAF Technical Commission, Paolo Cherchi Usai, Senior Curator of the George Eastman Museum, Thelma Ross, head of FIAF’s Cataloguing and Documentation, Camille Blot-Wellens from FIAF’s Technical Commission; five faculty members from George Eastman Museum and L. Jeffrey Selznick School of Film Preservation, and five members from L’Immagine Ritrovata, Bologna including the Director, Davide Pozzi and Richard Wright, who was earlier at the BBC Archive. The workshop will have 61 participants from India, Sri Lanka and Bangladesh and covers the entire gamut of topics dealing with film preservation and restoration.