Shivendra Singh Dungarpur

Shivendra Singh Dungarpur is an award-winning filmmaker, producer and archivist. His first feature documentary Celluloid Man won two National Awards. His second documentary The Immortals premiered at the Busan International Film Festival and won the Special Jury Award for the Best Film at MIFF 2016. His third documentary CzechMate – In Search of Jiri Menzel is an exploration of the Czechoslovakian New Wave. In 2014 he established Film Heritage Foundation (FHF), a not-for-profit organization dedicated to preserving and restoring India’s film heritage. He is the Festival Director of the MAMI Mumbai Film Festival. He is also a member of the Artistic Committee of the Il Cinema Ritrovato Festival, Bologna and of the Honorary Committee of the Nitrate Picture Show, George Eastman House’s Festival of Film Conservation. In 2025, he was conferred with the Vittorio Boarini Award. His first foray into the world of film restoration was as a donor for the restoration of Hitchcock’s silent film The Lodger  by the British Film Institute. He went on to collaborate on two restoration projects with Martin Scorsese’s World Cinema Foundation: Uday Shankar’s Kalpana and Dr Lester James Peries’ Nidhanaya that premiered at the Cannes Film Festival in 2012 and Venice Film Festival 2013, respectively. FHF has been restoring forgotten gems of Indian cinema including Aravindan Govindan’s Kummatty and Thamp̄, Aribam Syam Sharma’s Ishanou, Shyam Benegal’s Manthan, Satyajit Ray’s Aranyer Din Ratri, Sumitra Peries’ Sri Lankan film Gehenu Lamai, Bimal Roy’s Do Bigha Zamin and Ramesh Sippy’s Sholay.