Conceived and designed since 2014, Versova Films is run by Loubna Régragui, film director, producer and film curator.
Loubna Régragui is an independent filmmaker (cinéaste) and film preservationist with over twenty years’ experience in an international, multicultural professional environment.
Cinema being her greatest passion, Loubna followed specific professional trainings in film preservation : the European training program ARCHIMEDIA for the Promotion of Film Heritage (initial training and seminars) then, graduated from the L. Jeffrey Selznick School of Film Preservation at the George Eastman Museum (Rochester, USA) where she had the opportunity to work on the private film collection of Martin Scorsese.
Since then, Loubna has collaborated with international major film festivals (Europe, Asia), with leading film archives (USA, Europe) and with specialized film laboratories such as Technicolor Creative Services (USA) and Haghefilm Foundation (Netherlands) on film preservation programs and many prestigious restoration projects.
In India, Loubna set up the “Film Educational Program for Film Heritage”, the first major program specially tailored for sensitizing the future generation of filmmakers to the importance of film preservation, in partnership with the FTII (Film & Television Institute of India) and the NFAI (National Film Archive of India) in Pune. Shortly after that, she curated the “IFFI Goa Film Treasures”, the new section dedicated to classics within and in collaboration with the International Film Festival of India (IFFI) in Goa.
Because Loubna has always believed in the active participation of film directors in the process of film preservation, she has fostered an ongoing dialogue with cinema personalities from the film industry.
Loubna gained production experience working on her first feature-length film made, for the silver screen, as an homage to the finest poet of Indian cinema, Mani Kaul. In that purpose, Loubna has lived and worked in Bombay (in the culturally cool Versova neighbourhood) for some years. Before that, she has traveled extensively and has lived and worked in the US, in Sweden and in the Netherlands.
Her debut film The Nine Lakh Stars had its world premiere at the International Film Festival in Rotterdam (IFFR 2022).
Her specialties and areas of expertise include:
– film curatorship and film collection management
– film preservation (conservation, restoration, promotion, exhibition)
– historical film color processes
– history of film technology
– film materiality
– the cinema of Mani Kaul and Indian independent cinema since early 1970s
– contemporary auteur cinema
– creative documentaries
In particular, Loubna graduated in Modern Literature at Sorbonne University and specialized in creative documentary filmmaking at Ateliers Varan in Paris and at the Documentary School of Lussas (South of France).
Loubna is also a doctoral researcher in Cinema studies at Sorbonne Nouvelle University (Paris, France), her research focuses on the Technicolor Dye-Imbibition process developped in the US.