Bollywood Actor Amitabh Bachchan will be bestowed with an award by the International Federation of Film Archives (FIAF).
Key Points
- Amitabh Bachchan will be the first Indian cinema personality to be honored with the FIAF Award.
- He will be honored for his dedication and contribution to preserving the world’s film heritage.
- The award will be presented to the megastar at a virtual showcase scheduled on March 19, 2021.
- Hollywood filmmakers and previous recipients of the FIAF Award — Martin Scorcese and Christopher Nolan — will also be a part of the event.
- The name of Amitabh Bachchan was nominated by the FIAF affiliate Film Heritage Foundation.
- The FIAF is an organization that comprises film archives and museums from across the world.
- This year FIAF is celebrating the 20th anniversary of its annual award.
- Founded by filmmaker and archivist Shivendra Singh Dungarpur, Film Heritage Foundation is a not-for-profit organization dedicated to the preservation, restoration, documentation, exhibition, and study of India’s film heritage.
- Amitabh Bachchan, who has championed the cause of saving our film heritage and constructively wielded his influence to amplify the cause on a war footing in our part of the world.
Previous recipients of the FIAF Award include Ingmar Bergman, Manoel de Oliveira, Hou Hsiao-Hsien, Geraldine Chaplin, Peter Bogdanovich, Rithy Panh, Nelson Pereira dos Santos, Liv Ullmann, Agnes Varda, Kyoko Kagawa, Jan Svankmajer, Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne, Yervant Gianikian and Angela Ricci Lucchi, Apichatpong Weerasethakul, Walter Salles, and Jean-Luc Godard.
