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Shivendra Singh Dungarpur (born 25 August 1969) is an Indian filmmaker, producer, film archivist and restorer. He is best known for his films Celluloid Man, The Immortals and CzechMate: In Search of Jiří Menzel. He has also directed several award-winning commercials and public service campaigns under the banner of Dungarpur Films. Dungarpur is the founder Director of Film Heritage Foundation, a non-profit organization dedicated to the preservation and restoration of India's film heritage. Shivendra Singh Dungarpur is a member of the Board of Trustees of the Mumbai Academy of the Moving Image (MAMI), which hosts the MAMI Mumbai Film Festival. As of 12 June 2024, he is also the interim Festival Director of the MAMI Mumbai Film Festival. He has been elected four times to the executive committee of the International Federation of Film Archives (FIAF) at the elections held at the FIAF Congress 2017 in Los Angeles, FIAF Congress 2019 in Lausanne and the online FIAF Congress in 2021. In 2023, Dungarpur became a member of the Advisory Council of the India International Centre, New Delhi. Education and early life Dungarpur was born in Patna, Bihar and belongs to the erstwhile royal family of Dungarpur State that still has its family seat in Dungarpur, Rajasthan and is the nephew of Raj Singh Dungarpur. He attended The Doon School, graduating in 1987. He went on to do a degree in history (Hons) from St. Stephen's College, Delhi and shifted to Mumbai soon after to begin his career in film as an assistant director to writer-lyricist and director, Gulzar and worked with him on films like Lekin and Libaas. Subsequently, he enrolled in the Film and Television Institute of India, Pune to study film direction and scriptwriting. He graduated from FTII in 1994. He was first introduced to the cinema by his maternal grandmother, Usha Rani, Maharani of Dumraon. It was with her and his grandfather Maharaj Kamal Singh of Dumraon that he first saw classics ranging from Pakeezah to Chaplin, Buster Keaton, Laurel & Hardy and Danny Kaye at summer evening screenings on 16 mm and 8 mm projectors in the verandah of their home in Dumraon. Career Shivendra Singh Dungarpur started his production house Dungarpur Films in 2001. Under this banner, he has directed and produced commercials and documentaries for numerous brands over the years. In 2014, he founded Film Heritage Foundation to preserve India's endangered film heritage. Film Heritage Foundation is a non-profit organization based in Mumbai which is dedicated to supporting the conservation, preservation and restoration of the moving image and to developing interdisciplinary programs to create awareness about the language of cinema. In 2021, Shivendra Singh Dungarpur joined the Board of Trustees of the Mumbai Academy of the Moving Image. In 2024, he became the interim Festival Director of the MAMI Mumbai Film Festival. He is a supporting member of the Fondazione Cineteca di Bologna, Italy, along with the legendary Pathé film company. He is a member of the Artistic Committee of the Il Cinema Ritrovato Festival in Bologna and also a member of the Honorary Committee of the Nitrate Picture Show, George Eastman House's Festival of Film Conservation. Dungarpur was a member of the Expert Committee of the National Museum of Indian Cinema. Filmography Shivendra Singh Dungarpur directed 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. The filming of the documentary began in 2010 and it was completed in May 2012. The film premiered at the Il Cinema Ritrovato Festival in Bologna, Italy, on 26 June 2012. It was the opening film at the Sierra Leone International Film Festival, 2013, and the Kyiv International Documentary Film Festival, 2013 where it won the "Nestor The Chronicler" award for the best archival film. 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. Dungarpur's second documentary, The Immortals was completed in August 2015 and premiered at the 20th Busan International Film Festival in October. This film is a personal journey, travelling through time and space to unravel hidden stories and rediscover objects and images that at one time were an integral part of the lives of these artists through which their creations came into being. The film was screened at the 17th Jio MAMI Mumbai Film Festival and was the opening film in the Documentary Section at the 21st Kolkata International Film Festival. The Immortals won the Special Jury Award in the National Competition Section of the Mumbai International Film Festival (MIFF) for Documentaries, Short and Animation Films in 2016. and was screened at the 30th edition of the Il Cinema Ritrovato festival in Bologna in the same year. In 2018, Dungarpur released the 420-minute documentary CzechMate: In Search of Jiří Menzel, based on the life of Czech film and theatre director, screenwriter, and actor, Jiří Menzel. The seven-hour-long film was eight years in the making and features extensive interviews with 85 filmmakers, actors and film historians including Woody Allen, Ken Loach, and Emir Kusturica. The film had its debut at a screening at the UCLA Film & Television Archive in September 2018 and has also been screened at the 20th Jio MAMI Mumbai Film Festival. The film has been showcased at the 24th Kolkata International Film Festival in November 2018, the Il Cinema Ritrovato in Bologna, and screenings in Prague, Slovakia and London. The British Film Institute and Sight & Sound The International Film Magazine polled "CzechMate – In Search of Jiri Menzel" in the top 5 Blu-Ray and DVD releases of 2020 in a vote by eminent film critics. Acting Shivendra acted in the film “Knock on the Door” directed by Ranjan Palit along with a cast of actors that included Naseeruddin Shah, Adil Hussain, Nandita Das, Ratna Pathak Shah and Amrita Chattopadhyay. The film was selected for the International Film Festival of Rotterdam (IFFR) in 2023. In 2022, he was offered a role in the Hindi film "Ghoomer" directed by R. Balki where he plays a prominent role along with a cast comprising Shabana Azmi, Saiyami Kher, and Abhishek Bachchan. Short films and television Shivendra directed a 26-episode series Rahe Na Rahe Hum produced by Contiloe Films for Star TV and hosted by scriptwriter and lyricist Javed Akhtar. He also produced a five-episode serial for Doordarshan based on the classic novel Bhoole Bisre Chitra written by Shri Bhagwati Charan Verma. Dungarpur Films has produced two short films I became… and Room 19. I became… was given a gold medal at the IDPA Awards 2006 for the Best Short Fiction film of the year. It also won the award for the Best Short Film at the Marbella Film Festival in 2007 and wa.... Discover the Dr Shivendra Kumar Sinha popular books. Find the top 100 most popular Dr Shivendra Kumar Sinha books.
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No Room For Regret
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Dracula
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Opal
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Spark of Passion
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10-Minute Social Psychology
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Beautiful Darkness
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Game Changer
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Ice Crown
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Dream Psychology
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The Grumpy Dinosaur
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Knock Knock
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The Odyssey
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Serendipity
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Holy Bible
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Bedtime Stories
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The Scarlet Letter
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Close to the Ridge
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Silenced Girls
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Through the Looking-Glass
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The Good Knight
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Mischief after Midnight
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The Cottage on Nantucket
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The Wonderful Wizard of Oz
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You Are Kind
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Scorned Queen
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Rascal
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When the Night is Over
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Just One Time
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The Girls on Chalk Hill
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Make Me Forget
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Doubly Claimed
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Meditations
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Wormwood Abbey
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If I Break
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Tongue Twisters for Kids
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Finding Cinderella
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Enemies With Benefits
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The Hookup Equation
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Pride and Prejudice
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Heartbreaker
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Become A Better Version of Yourself
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Little Women
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Teach Me The Ropes
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The Great Gatsby
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A Light in the Window
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Behind Closed Doors
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