Shivendra Singh Dungarpur

Shivendra Singh Dungarpur is an award-winning filmmaker, producer and archivist. He has produced and directed close to 1500 advertising films as well as short films and documentaries under the banner of his production house “Dungarpur Films”. His first feature documentary “Celluloid Man” (2012) won two National Awards. His second documentary “The Immortals” (2015) premiered at the Busan International Film Festival and won the Special Jury Award for the Best Film at MIFF 2016. His third documentary “CzechMate – In Search of Jiri Menzel” is a seven-hour epic in-depth exploration of the Czechoslovakian New Wave that has won critical acclaim from cinephiles around the world. British Film Institute and Sight & Sound Magazine voted the film amongst the top 5 releases of 2020.

In 2014 he established Film Heritage Foundation (FHF), a not-for-profit organization dedicated to preserving and restoring India’s film heritage. FHF is the only non-governmental organization working in the field of film preservation in India.

Shivendra is the Festival Director of the MAMI Mumbai Film Festival. He is also a member of the Artistic Committee of the Il Cinema Ritrovato Festival in Bologna as well as of the Honorary Committee of the Nitrate Picture Show, George Eastman House’s Festival of Film Conservation. In June 2025, Shivendra was conferred with the Vittorio Boarini Award that has been instituted by Fondazione Cineteca di Bologna to honour individuals who have made exceptional contributions to the preservation, restoration, promotion or dissemination of cinema as cultural heritage.