Workshop for betterment held
Source: The Sangai Express
Imphal, July 04 2014 :
Manipur Film Development Corporation limited in collaboration with Television and Cine Foundation, Manipur organised a four-day workshop on Documentary Project Development and Pitching at MFDC (July 3 to July 6, 2014) .
The workshop is conducted by the Documentary Resource Initiative (DRI), Kolkata under the guidance of Nilotpal Mazumdar, Dean of Satyajit ray Film and Television Institute, Kolkata along with his team of renowned film makers.
The programme is participatory, collaborative and it will, hopefully, lead to the development of project ideas.
Workshop co-ordinator, Ronel Haobam in his speech to the media explained that the workshop has been organised to help produce better films based on the day to day life and events of Manipur with an aim to take Manipuri documentary films at the International level.
The workshop is attended by a total of 18 students including three women.
The tutors working on the programme are Sourav Sarangi and Supriyo Sen, renowned documentary film makers; Nilotpal Majumdar, SRFTII Kolkata; Bishnu Haldar, Workshop co-ordinator, Kolkata; and Haobam Paban Kumar, Manipur.
The Main highlights of the workshop are to develop project ideas into scripts, learning how to pitch a project to financers/broadcasters, integrating global film distribution trends to local situation and daily film screening and interaction on latest documentary trends.
The main objective of the workshop is to help local film makers to develop the skill of articulating effectively, the original documentary ideas conceived.