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Our Mission To present the many shades of South Asian cinema to the global community, to analyse and comment on it and link it to contemporary society. More >
Beyond Partition Beyond Partition (2006) reflects South Asian filmmakers’ take on the Partition of India (1947). Shot for over a year, this path-breaking documentary has taken into its ambit, relevant films that emerged not only from India, but also from Pakistan, Bangladesh and the UK. A Lalit Mohan Joshi film, Beyond Partition explores the trauma of Partition and how . . . More >
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SACF receives Heritage Grant to Explore Contribution of Niranjan Pal South Asian Cinema Foundation (SACF) has received a grant of £32,400 from the Heritage Lottery Fund for its project Lifting the Curtain: Niranjan Pal and Indo-British Collaboration in Cinema which will explore the contribution made by the Indian film legend who was based in UK between 1908 and 1929. Sue Bowers, Head of Heritage Lottery Fund London, said: “This project will help to unlock little-known information about how the Indo-British film industry developed in the early years of the 20th century providing a valued source of information for film historians and academics both here and in the sub-continent.” The project will focus on scenarist, film script and storywriter Niranjan Pal and the film-related activities in which he and others from the Indian subcontinent collaborated with Britons in the first two decades of the 20th century. One of the founders of Bombay Talkies in 1934, Niranjan Pal (1889-1959) was a pioneer who contributed in the making of many significant films through Indo- British collaboration. “This Heritage Lottery grant is quite significant for the SACF in its tenth anniversary year and will go a long way in fulfilling our commitment to work for building film culture in UK. SACF’s Lifting the Curtain Project is significant as hardly anything is known about Pal's life and extraordinary achievements in the important field of Indo-British film heritage”, says Lalit Mohan Joshi, Director of SACF. SACF, based in the west London borough of Hounslow, will produce and print 300 copies of an illustrated book on Niranjan Pal and his life in Britain (1908-29). They will also disseminate it to key organisations such as the British Library (BL) British Film Institute (BFI) and interested university, local and school libraries. The year-long project will organise various film events, exhibitions and volunteer training workshops to showcase the theme of this novel heritage project in collaboration with community and statutory organisations such as The Watermans, Brentford; the Richmix Centre, Shoreditch; Bharatiya Vidya Bhawan, Kensington; Face Films; Redbridge; and the Nehru Centre, the cultural centre of the India High Commission in central London. An important part of the Project will be to demystify heritage research by introducing a mixed group of 20 volunteers to London’s key libraries and archives including the British Library, British Film Institute and the National Portrait Gallery. In the season of Niranjan Pal films which is part of this heritage project, SACF will work with volunteers to screen films like The Light of Asia (1925), Shiraz (1928) and A Throw of Dice (1929). To introduce an element of period authenticity, there is to be a special screening of one of the films where SACF will arrange live music with professional musicians to accompany the film.
Sita Devi (Rene Smith) as
Queen Gopa in Light of Asia to be screened by SACF Local communities will benefit greatly from the project and the participation of volunteers will be vital in all events including the production of the book on Niranjan Pal where their contribution and learning will be specially recorded and highlighted.
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'Light of Asia'
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'Achut Kanya'
'Throw of Dice'
'Throw of Dice'
'Throw of Dice'
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