David Lean Foundation

The objectives of the David Lean Foundation are:

to promote and advance education and to cultivate and improve public taste in the visual arts in particular by stimulating original and creative work in the field of film production (in particular including screenplay writing and film direction and film editing) by encouraging a high standard of art and technique in persons engaged in such film production (including screenplay writing and film direction and film editing) and by encouraging and promoting the improvement of the standard of the arts sciences and techniques of film production
to benefit such charitable institution or institutions or other charitable object or objects as the Trustees shall in their absolute discretion think fit to support or establish

In furtherance of the objects the Trustees have powers:

to further the preservation and public exhibition of films (including those films directed by Sir David Lean)
to encourage and sponsor education publications and promote exhibitions and lectures and generally to disseminate knowledge of the art and technique of film production by means of the reading of papers delivery of lectures giving of advice or otherwise
to co-operate with educational authorities and organisations to procure the better appreciation and understanding of films and to encourage in every way the educational aspect of films and to encourage and sponsor the foundation of university departments of film studies
to promote and assist research in connection with film production
to make awards and give prizes for merit in respect of outstanding artistic technical or scientific achievement in connection with film production
to print and publish and to distribute gratuitously or otherwise such books, papers, pamphlets and periodicals as may from time to time be calculated to advance knowledge and appreciation of the arts, sciences and techniques of film production
to make donations or payments to any other United Kingdom registered charity or body established exclusively for charitable purposes
to promote the advancement of education generally