Martin Scorsese

Martin Scorsese founded The Film Foundation in 1990 to restore neglected films, and its World Cinema Project, launched in 2007, has restored classics from Africa, Asia and Latin America such as Ousmane Sembène's Black Girl and Djibril Diop Mambéty's Touki Bouki, making them available on disc and streaming. He also lends his name as executive producer to younger directors, including Joanna Hogg on The Souvenir. Few directors have spent so much effort on other people's films.