2026 Film Preservation & Restoration Workshop India

21 – 28 November 2026

Assam Administrative Staff College, Jawaharnagar, Khanapara, Guwahati – 781022, Assam

Film Preservation & Restoration Workshop India 2026 (FPRWI 2026) is an initiative of Film Heritage Foundation in partnership with FIAF and in collaboration with The Film Foundation’s World Cinema Project, British Film Institute, L’Immagine Ritrovata, Institut National de l’Audiovisuel (INA), Cinemateca Portuguesa, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, Yale Film Archive, and The Criterion Collection / Janus Films.

This 7-day workshop, open to applicants from all over the world, covers the complete range of the issues and topics required to work in the field of audio-visual preservation.

The curriculum includes both lectures and small group sessions on analogue film identification, repair and restoration, digitization and digital preservation and restoration, cataloguing, library sciences, paper and photograph conservation, programming, and much more. Classes will be followed by daily evening screenings of restored films from around the world.

Highlights:

• Course covers lectures and practical sessions in every aspect of film preservation including the preservation, conservation and restoration of celluloid, digital preservation and restoration, paper and photograph conservation, film programming and archive management.
• Superb international faculty from the premier institutions around the world including the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, British Film Institute, L’Immagine Ritrovata, Bologna, Institute National de l’Audiovisuel and Cineteca Portuguesa and the Yale Film Archive.
• Daily screenings of restored classics films.
• Participants will receive a certificate from FIAF on completion of the course.

Registration

Click HERE to download the application form, or go to the dedicated page on the Film Heritage Foundation website.

Practical information:

• Once you open the Google Drive link, kindly click on File>Download>Microsoft Word to save the APPLICATION FORM on your system.
• The deadline for submitting the application form: Wednesday 30 September 2026.

• Late applications will not be considered. 

• To apply, kindly submit the following to: fprwi2026@gmail.com 
  • A fully completed application form along with annexures if any.
  • We urge applicants to attach letters of recommendation and any other documents or material in support of their candidature.