| Event Name: | Lifting the Curtain: Niranjan Pal in Cinema in the UK |
| Description: | This programme is to mark the launch of a new year-long Film Heritage Project focused on Niranjan Pal that South Asian Cinema Foundation (SACF) has begun this May. As an introduction to the period being covered by the project, clips from some significant films _ed by Niranjan Pal such as A Throw of Dice will be screened. There will also be interesting presentations on early cinema, filmmakers, filmmaking and film exhibition in Britain and on various film sources that can be tapped by students researching on how the fledgling film medium evolved and found its feet in Britain in the early decades of the twentieth century.
As part of this pioneering film Heritage Project, SACF is to collaborate with The Nehru Centre, Watermans, British Library, British Film Institute, Bharatiya Vidya Bhawan and others to organise a wide range of activities includeing introducing volunteers to film research, producing a new publication, organising an exhibition, screening films, dramatic reconstructions and making power point presentations to highlight the main findings of the project. |
| Type of Event: | Films - Movies |
| Event Agenda: | Introduction: Lalit Mohan Josh; Speakers : David Somerset (British Film Institute (BFI), Dr Luke McKernan (British Library) and Dr Kusum Pant Joshi (SACF), Presenter: Rhia Roy; Chair: Prof John Eade. |
| Event Location: | The Nehru Centre |
| Event City: | London |
| Type of Venue: | Cultural Center |
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| Event Start Date | 25-Aug-10 |