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This project builds robust and unifying connections between the academic, creative industry and cultural heritage sectors in India and the UK through three specific interconnecting pathways. The project aims to optimise creative collaboration, knowledge, strategy, research and policy sharing between universities in India and Britain and leading film festivals in New Delhi, Bangalore, Kolkata, Mumbai and London. The project’s first strand builds synergies between India-UK film festivals through bespoke symposia and networking forums, facilitating opportunities for festival curators, industry representatives, cultural organisations, policymakers, researchers and students to collaborate. The second strand will develop an India-UK Emerging Curators Lab network to foster skills development, creative practice and knowledge sharing to nurture the next generation of film curators in the two countries. The third strand involves film-based documentation of intergenerational oral histories involving diverse local community contributors in India; charting human histories and memories built around these cities’ cinema heritage – spanning the British colonial past to India’s digital present. The three interconnected pathways will therefore bring together academic research, creative industry practice and cultural heritage to foster a sustainable relationship between India-UK film festivals, young curators and community contributors.