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Born on 25 August, 1969 in Patna, Bihar, Shivendra Singh Dungarpur is an award-winning Indian filmmaker, producer, film archivist and restorer who has won acclaim for his films "Celluloid Man", "The Immortals" and "CzechMate - In Search of Jirí Menzel".He belongs to the erstwhile royal family of Dungarpur State in Rajasthan, India. He was first introduced to 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 veranda of their home in Dumraon. His family fostered his love for photography and wildlife and a keen interest in ornithology that continues even today.Dungarpur graduated from The Doon School in 1987 and went on to do a degree in History (Hons) from St. Stephen's College, Delhi. He came to Mumbai soon after to begin his career in film as an assistant director to his mentor, writer-lyricist and director, Gulzar. Subsequently, he enrolled in the Film and Television Institute of India (FTII) at Pune to study film direction and script writing from where he graduated in 1994.He established Dungarpur Films in 2001 under which banner he has directed and produced over 800 commercials as well as television series, documentaries and short films. Over the years, he has won innumerable awards for his work in advertising including five IDPA gold awards and three silver awards. These include award-winning public service campaigns on leprosy awareness, rural welfare projects, the efforts of the Indian Army in Kashmir, campaigns on health issues in rural India for World Health Partners (WHP) and the Bill Gates Foundation and Warren Buffett.Dungarpur's first feature-length film was the 2012 documentary Celluloid Man, a film about P. K. Nair, India's pioneering film archivist. The documentary traveled to more than 50 film festivals in India and abroad, including the Telluride Film Festival, the 50th New York Film Festival, the International Film Festival, Rotterdam. The film won two National Awards at the 60th Indian National Film Awards and the "Nestor The Chronicler" award for the best archival film at the Kyiv International Documentary Film Festival, 2013. A print of the film has been preserved at the George Eastman Museum, Rochester, New York.Dungarpur completed his second documentary, "The Immortals" in 2015 and it premiered at the 20th Busan International Film Festival. The film is a personal journey and tells a story of Indian cinema through a visual exploration of physical artifacts, personal spaces and living memories. "The Immortals" won the Special Jury Award in the National Competition Section of the Mumbai International Film Festival (MIFF) in 2016.Dungarpur's third documentary titled "CzechMate - in Search of Jirí Menzel" (2018) is an epic in-depth exploration of the work of renowned Czech director Jirí Menzel and the Czechoslovakian New Wave. Eight years in the making and at a duration of a little over seven hours, it is the longest film ever to be certified by the Central Board of Film Certification in India. Oscar-winning writer and filmmaker, Alexander Payne said about the film, "I think it's one of the greatest and most fascinating film docs I've ever, ever seen. Breathtaking, really."Second Run will be releasing a special edition 2-disc Blu-Ray of the film in July 2020.The film was screened at the 20th Jio MAMI Mumbai Film Festival where it was presented by the award-winning Slovakian filmmaker Martin Sulik.Dungarpur also forayed into the world of television in 2001 when he directed a 26-episode series produced by Contiloe Films "Rahe Na Rahe Hum" hosted by renowned scriptwriter and lyricist Javed Akhtar. He has also produced a five- episode serial for Doordarshan based on the classic novel Bhoole Bisre Chitra written by Shri Bhagwati Charan Verma and a 13-episode weekly television mini-series for Sony Television titled "Rajuben" with creative director, Anurag Kashyap.Dungarpur is passionately committed to film preservation and restoration. He was a donor for the British Film Institute's restoration of Alfred Hitchcock's silent film, The Lodger: A Story of the London Fog. He facilitated the restoration of the Indian film, Uday Shankar's "Kalpana" (1948) and eminent Sri Lankan filmmaker Dr Lester James Peries' film "Nidhanaya" (1972) in collaboration with Martin Scorsese's World Cinema Foundation.In 2014, he founded Film Heritage Foundation a not-for-profit organization based in Mumbai, dedicated to the conservation, preservation and restoration of India's film heritage. The institution is a pioneer in the field in India, being the only non-governmental organization working in the field of film preservation in India. Since its inception, Film Heritage Foundation has put the cause of film preservation on the map in India and the subcontinent. A member of the International Federation of Film Archives (FIAF), It has a growing collection of films on celluloid as well as film-related memorabilia. The foundation has been conducting annual film preservation and restoration workshops around the country in association with FIAF to build a local resource of film archivists.Dungarpur is a member of the Artistic Committee of the Il Cinema Ritrovato Festival in Bologna that includes among others Alexander Payne, Aki Kaurismäki, Jonathan Rosenbaum, Peter Becker and Kevin Brownlow. In 2019, he was elected to a second term as a member of the Executive Committee of FIAF. - IMDb Mini Biography By: Teesha Cherian

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