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The Satyajit Ray Film and Study Collection (Ray FASC) was established on Satyajit Ray's seventieth birthday, May 2, 1991, at the University of California, Santa Cruz (UCSC). In 1993, Professor Dilip K.Basu, Ray FASC founding director, helped establish the Society for the Preservation of Satyajit Ray Films (The Satyajit Ray Society) in Kolkata. The two work in tandem as “sister” organizations. Both coordinate , for example,restorations Ray films by the Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences Archives (AMPASA) in Los Angeles.
Ray FASC is organized as a “Focused Research Activity” (FRA) in the Humanities Division at UCSC. Over the years, it has built up a major collection of Satyajit Ray's films in 35mm, DVD and VHS formats, books on Ray and books by Ray, graphics, screenplays, articles in newspaper and magazines, posters and a sizable collection of production stills and film stills. |
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These are available to scholars, students and the
general public exclusively for educational and non-commercial purposes. The Ray FASC provides
public access to its database, following the World catalogue system of the Library of Congress,
on the internet.
Over the years, Ray FASC has helped
organize Ray retrospectives and exhibitions, and participated in film festivals in North America,
Europe and Asia. It was invited to the Cannes Film Festival in 2005 to screen Ray's Pather
Panchali to mark the film's fiftieth anniversary. It has also undertaken publication series on
the works of Satyajit Ray .
Ray FASC hosts a lecture-cum-event with
a Ray film screening in the month of October every year. It is named after its first major
supporter the late Dr. Sidhartha Maitra. Past speakers include Vikram Seth, Pico Iyer, Partha
Mitter and Sharmila Tagore. This year's speaker will be Professor Amartya Sen .
Ray Film and Study Collection
University of California - Santa Cruz
2801 Mission St. #132
Santa Cruz, CA 95060
Phone: +1 (831) 459-4012
Ray FASC website : http://satyajitray.ucsc.edu |
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