Project
People’s Archives of Indian Cinema (PPAIC)
The Project People Archive of Indian Cinema (PPAIC) is committed to sharing, building and making accessible hidden micro-archives of peoples on the rich heritage of Indian cinema. We believe in the power of people to become agents of heritage, irrespective of their backgrounds.
Biographies of Our People
Prof Monia Acciari (PhD) is a Visiting Fellow, Ashoka University and Professor in Film and Television History at De Montfort University (Leicester, UK)
She teaches and researches Film Festivals, Film Archives, Global Indian Cinema History, digital storytelling and Film Heritage data. She is interested in notions of Film archaeology, citizen film heritage and her research intersect Indian film history with archival studies and more recently with digital humanities. Most of her teaching is informed by research-led practices, specifically pertaining to film curatorship, film archives (both tangible and intangible) and film material culture. She has recently co-edited along with Phillip Rhensious a book entitled The Politics of Curatorship, published by NORIENT Books (2023). She completed her Heritage Data training at Cambridge University and is FIAF-BAVASS trained in Digital archiving of cinema. Dr Acciari is associate director of the UK Asian Film Festival (Leicester Section) in the UK, Director of the Indian cinema Archive at De Montfort University. She has been principal investigator of a number of funded research projects in the UK. Dr Acciari has been Visiting Professor at The English and Foreign Languages University (2019), Ashoka University (2021) and international visiting faculty at the University of Pune (Liberal Arts, 2022) and IISER Pune (2022). Dr Acciari, is currently working on her monograph Fortuitous Archives of Indian Cinema Now on Record (Amsterdam University Press, 2027), editing a book Archivescapes of Indian cinema (Routledge 2026) and co-editing a special issue of the South Asian popular Culture Journal, alongside Dr Kaushik Bhaumik (JNU) on Archives and the Popular.
Anoop Bhogal-Nair An Associate Professor of Marketing and Consumption at the within the School of Leadership, Management, and Marketing at De Montfort University, UK.
She is an inter-disciplinary marketing and consumer research academic engaged in research that investigates how individuals negotiate and consume both their sense of physical being and their self-identity within the spaces they occupy. Specifically, her research activity has centred upon minoritized consumers and vulnerable groups, focusing on the challenges, threats, and opportunities individuals face in their daily lives. Her research work sits at the intersection of Identity and voice, positive social impact, and the broad wellbeing agenda. Through adopting the sensibilities of a transformative research, she is passionate about engaging in research that can: benefit society; allows for an engagement with other disciplines; and adopts non-extractive and collaborative approaches with stakeholder groups through creative methodologies (digital storytelling, poetry, applied theatre, co-creative strategies and participatory research). Anoop’s research has been funded by The British Academy, The Arts and Humanities Research Council, and Innovate UK, working with colleagues across a range of subject disciplines (Education, Film Studies, Health and Life Sciences, Theatre). Anoop is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts, an Associate Editor for the ABS-ranked journal, Qualitative Market Research, and the school lead for sustainability and social impact.
PAIC Collections
A growing cartography of intimate film material culture archiving projects, formed by objects, digital storytelling, and personal lived experiences.
Project Sholay: Delhi Chapter
CREATIVE ARCHIVES: In and Around Leicester
Filmi Katta: Project Nashik
CROSSROADS
Media
Technical Support Team
Key member of the Research & Development team, driving innovation and technical solutions.
