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  • Drishyam to join Sundance Screenwriters lab in Goa

    Drishyam to join Sundance Screenwriters lab in Goa

    NEW DELHI: The Sundance Institute is to join Indian film production company Drishyam for the Sundance Institute Screenwriters lab that will be held in Goa from 12 to 16 April.
     
    Drishyam is a recent entrant to the Indian independent film production scene, having produced Umrika that won the audience award in the world cinema dramatic category at Sundance this year. Its Dhanak won the Grand Prix in the Generation KPlus segment at Berlin.
     
    Former Mumbai Film Festival director S Narayanan is heading the Sundance-Drishyam lab.
     
    “The lab will be very beneficial for Indian Cinema in the long run. It goes well with our idea of promoting content driven cinema. Films like Margarita with A Straw, Umrika and Masaan have come out of Sundance Screenwriters Lab,” said Drishyam chairman Manish Mundra.
     

    Sundance had a three year partnership with the Mahindra group to conduct Indian screenwriting labs that came to an end last year. 

     

  • Indo-German script development workshop at Mumbai fest

    Indo-German script development workshop at Mumbai fest

    MUMBAI: The 13th edition of the Mumbai Film, a Reliance Entertainment initiative, is scheduled to get underway on 13 October.


    Among various activities, a three-day Indo-German script development workshop has been planned. The workshop will be held in association with ‘Germany and India 2011-2012 – Infinite Opportunities, Life Entertainment, Primehouse, dffb, Hff and Skw Schwarz.


    The workshop, for screen-writers, directors, producers and film students who want to explore opportunities in story-telling and more globally accepted story development, especially between Germany and India, will begin two days earlier on 11 October.
     
    “Any writer, director and producer who has at least one film to his credit can apply for the workshop. Film direction and script writing students from the film institutes like FTII (Film and Television Institute of India) in India can also attend the workshop,” said 13th Mumbai Film Festival festival director S. Narayanan in an statement.


    ‘We have the privilege of welcoming talents like Dani Levy, Thorsten Schulz, Jochen Brunow who will share the platform with Indian directors such as Ashutosh Gowarikar amongst others. We believe that this is a huge step forward,‘ he added.


    An Indo-German project will be presented during the workshop as a case study in how collaboration between Indian and German writers and directors might work.