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Save Myanmar Film Team Strengthens Preservation Skills at Glass Plate Negatives Workshop in Yogyakarta
The Save Myanmar Film team recently participated in a one-week Glass Plate Negatives (GPN) Workshop held at the Sonobudoyo Museum in Yogyakarta, Indonesia, from 26 January to 1 February 2026 which was organized and funded by UNESCO–JFIT under the project “Glass Plate...
General Cartoon (1963) Makes Its Singapore Premiere — Painting With Light Festival
We are pleased to share that General Cartoon (1963), directed by Tha Du, had its first-ever screening in Singapore as part of the Painting With Light film festival at the National Gallery Singapore. This marks a significant milestone in the ongoing efforts to...
ဗိုလ်ကာတွန်း (General Cartoon) Film Digitization Project in collaboration with The Film Archive Organization (Thailand)
In collaboration with the Film Archive Organization (Thailand), Save Myanmar Film successfully carried out a digitization project in 2024. General Cartoon (1963) was directed by Academy Award-winning director Thardu and the intellectual property rights go to Thardu...
Sharing Myanmar’s Audiovisual Archival Practices: A Dialogue Across Borders
In May 2025, Save Myanmar Film had the privilege of participating in the two-day conference “Dialogue with Audiovisual Preservation Practice in India and Myanmar,” hosted by Tainan National University of the Arts (TNNUA) in Taiwan. Our representatives, Okkar and May...
CTC Grant 2023 Project: Preserving Myanmar’s Audio-Visual Heritage Amid Environmental Crisis
As a recipient of “Connection Through Culture Grant 2023”, Save Myanmar Film has organized the Paper Restoration Workshop, held on 8–9 August 2024, where 16 participants—including filmmakers, students, archivists, and collectors—were trained in essential paper...
Bringing Myanmar’s Film History to Life: Our mini Audio-Visual Resource Center
With the support of ACC-MOWCAP—the National Asian Culture Center (ACC) and the UNESCO Memory of the World Committee for Asia and the Pacific (MOWCAP) small grant programme 2024—a mini audio-visual resource center was successfully established in August 2024. Two...