Kamal Hassan depicts in Screenwriting Workshop: IIT

Updated on: Wednesday, April 22, 2009

Chennai: IIT-M presents a week long interaction with the best screenwriting teachers in the country between May 29 to June 3.

'It's a strictly instructional event. Basic education is compulsory and candidates need to demonstrate their seriousness to get selected,'says Kamal Haasan ,the writer-filmmaker-actor. He make his presence in association with Indian Institute of Technology, Madras

Jean Claude Carriere, Veteran writer  on participate via video conference. Moreover,the screenwriting workshop will be conducted by K.Hariharan, Director of the L.V. Prasad Film and TV Academy, Anjum Rajabali, Professional screenwriter and head of departments of screenwriting at Film and TV Institute, Pune and Whistling Woods, Mumbai and Atul Tiwari, Professional screenwriter and well known playwright.

'We will be approaching screenwriting from two angles', says Mr.Hariharan. 'How to turn words into images that you see on screen and also how to do the opposite – putting in words what you see as images in your mind. Every day, we will have two sessions of guest lectures by reputed writer-filmmakers from the industry.'

'While all good writing is essentially intuitive, it is essential to understand the basic principles of storytelling and the form of the screenplay to be a competent screenwriter', says Mr. Anjum Rajabali, who founded the screenwriting department at FTII and at Whistling Woods.

The workshop will be open to industry professionals. The event is an initiative of Raajkamal Films International to bring screenwriting to the forefront.

To get sellect in 250 candidates, send a copy of  resume, a passport-size photograph along with a 200-word synopsis on their favourite film and a list of their five favourite films to [email protected] before May 5, 2009.

More details are available on http://screenwritingindia.com. For further queries, email [email protected]

 

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