Curtains drawn on film workshop
Source: The Sangai Express
Imphal, March 10 2013 :
A 5 day workshop on documentary film making organised by EMRC, Manipur University which started from March 6 has concluded today at the Edusat Hall of EMRC.
The workshop was participated by more than 48 people who are mainly interested in film making particularly documentary films.
With two sessions everyday, Ashoke Viswanathan, eminent film maker who participated at the workshop as the main resource person interacted with the participants on different topics related to documentary film making.
Introduction to film, television and documentary film, film language and language of video, from concepts to script, shooting and post production including multi camera set ups and documentary shooting were the main topics discussed during the workshop.
On the last day of the workshop, a post production by the participants entitled Women Market, a documentary film for five minutes was also shown.
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Ashoke Viswanathan (born in 1959), a mathematics graduate from St.
Xavier's College, Kolkata, is a post graduate in film direction from the Film and Television Institute of India (Pune), having finished his specialization in 1985.Subsequently, he completed a certificate course in video production from the same institute in 1986 .
Since then, he has been active in both film and video media as a director, screenplay writer, actor and presenter, having directed more than 250 films and television programmes including feature films, documentaries, telefilms, music videos, and tele-serials.
He has won three national awards and two international awards.
Three of his feature films and two of his short features have been included in the Indian Panorama of IFFI '94, 1999, 2001, 2002 and 2005 .
His films have been shown at the Commonwealth Film Festival, Manchester, the Pyongyang International Film Festival, the Dhaka International Film Festival, and the Ipswich Film Festival, among others.