Amitabh Bachchan To Be First Indian Film Personality To Get FIAF Award
Amitabh Bachchan will be bestowed with the prestigious FIAF Award for his dedication and contribution towards preservation of world’s film heritage. File Photo Outlook Web Bureau 2021-03-10T10:00:12+05:30 Amitabh Bachchan To Be First Indian Film Personality To Get FIAF Award outlookindia.com 2021-03-10T10:15:13+05:30
Megastar Amitabh Bachchan will be conferred upon with an award by the International Federation of Film Archives (FIAF), the worldwide organisation of film archives and museums from across the world, at a virtual showcase scheduled to take place on March 19.
Bachchan will be the first Indian cinema personality to be bestowed with the FIAF Award for his dedication and contribution to the preservation of the world’s film heritage.
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Bollywood icon Amitabh Bachchan will be the 2021 recipient of the annual award presented by the International Federation of Film Archives (FIAF).
The FIAF Award was introduced in 2001, when it was presented to Martin Scorsese for his film archival efforts. It has since recognized personalities from outside the archival scene who have worked to advocate the cause of film preservation.
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Past winners include Ingmar Bergman (2003), Mike Leigh (2005), Hou Hsiao-hsien (2006), Peter Bogdanovich (2007), Rithy Panh (2009), Agnès Varda (2013), Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne (2016), Christopher Nolan (2017), Apichatpong Weerasethakul (2018), Jean-Luc Godard (2019), and Walter Salles (2020).
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The FIAF is a worldwide organization, comprising film archives and museums across the world. This year FIAF celebrates the twentieth anniversary of its annual Award. To mark this momentous occasion, there could be no better recipient than one of the world s greatest movie stars and one who has understood, embraced, and publicized the cause of film preservation for years, the statement quoted FiAF President Frederic Maire as saying. By presenting our prestigious FIAF Award to Amitabh Bachchan, we want to show the world how rich and diverse, but also how fragile, this unique film heritage is, and we want to publicly thank Bachchan for his role as a high-profile advocate for the rescue of this heritage, in India and beyond, he added.