TPW Desk: MoU signed between Getty Images and Bangladesh Film ArchiveA memorandum of understanding has been signed between the Bangladesh Film Archive under the Ministry of Information and Broadcasting and the American visual media organization Getty Images for the purpose of collecting and preserving footage related to the great liberation war of Bangladesh and Father of the Nation Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman.

According to a press release received in Dhaka today, this memorandum of understanding was signed at the Getty Images office in New York on Friday local time in the United States. Senior Secretary of the Ministry of Information and Broadcasting. Humayun Kabir Khondkar was present this time.

On behalf of the Bangladesh Film Archive, the director of the organization’s “Collection and preservation of audio visual documents of the Liberation War from domestic and foreign sources and capacity building of the Bangladesh Film Archive” project. Md. Mofakharul Iqbal and the company’s Asia Pacific TV and Sales Director Aran Barcheno signed the MoU on behalf of Getty Images.

Officials of the Bangladesh Embassy in Washington DC and the Bangladesh Permanent Mission to the United Nations in New York were present at this time.

Before the signing of the memorandum of understanding, the senior secretary of the Ministry of Information and Broadcasting Humayun Kabir Khondkar held talks with senior executives of Getty Images.