A great news for Assamese Movie lovers. As per news received from noted film maker and critique Utpal Borpujari, “Mayong: Myth/Reality”, directed by Utpal Borpujari and
produced by Jayanta Goswami, will be archived by the Royal Anthropological
Institute (RAI) of Great Britain and Ireland so that researchers and
academicians associated with cultural ethnography studies can access the
documentary.
A
communication to this effect has been sent to Borpujari by Susanne Hammacher,
film officer with the RAI. “We will take the film up to Edinburgh and it will be available in the
video library and for any future visitors at the RAI for consultation,” she
informed Borpujari. The film, produced under the banner of Darpan Cine
Production, will be made available for visitors and added to the archive in a
few weeks’ time from now.
The film, which was recently screened at the 5th
CineASA Guwahati International Film Festival and the India International
Centre, New Delhi, has also been selected for the Long Documentary
(Non-Competitive) Section of the 6th International Documentary and Short Film
Festival of Kerala (IDSFFK) to be held in Thiruvananthapuram in June and the
Gandhinagar International Film Festival to be held in the Gujarat capital in
September.
The RAI’s ethnographic film library,
which the film will be a part of, is one of the
world’s largest and most important such archives. “All films included in the
library are screened by the specialist Film Committee, guaranteeing a standard
of excellence unparalleled elsewhere. Growing numbers of film company
researchers and broadcasters now consult the RAI film materials,” according to
the RAI’s description of the archive.
The RAI is the world's longest-established scholarly association
dedicated to the furtherance of anthropology in its broadest and most inclusive
sense. It seeks to combine a distinguished tradition of scholarship stretching
back over more than 150 years with the active provision of services to
contemporary anthropology and anthropologists. The institute is strongly
involved in promoting the public understanding of anthropology, and the
contribution of anthropology to public affairs, and has a privileged link with
the Anthropology Library of the British
Museum.
Courtesy: Utpal Borpujari.
