The Technology Behind Screens
Ujwal Nirgudkar |
TEDxSKNCOE
• February 2018
Ujwal Nirgudkar is a member of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, joining in the class of 2017 along with other Indian members such as Amitabh Bachchan, Amir Khan, Shah Rukh Khan, Dipika Padukone, Irrfan Khan, Aishwarya Rai, Priyanka Chopra and Salman Khan. He is the first Indian to join the Academy as a member-at-large, having worked in the film industry for 36 years. He started his film career at the Filmcentre Laboratory in Tardev, Mumbai, as a Technical Manager. After that, he joined Film Labs in Goregaon, Mumbai in 2000. He rose to the position of technical director on the Filmlab board of directors in July 2007. He was also a global consultant to the Fortune-500 MNC Akzo Nobel in the Netherlands from 2007-2014, where he prompted green technology for film processing around the world. He currently works as the Technical Advisor for the National Film Heritage Mission, a media conversation project launched by National Film Archive of India.