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Kamal Haasan, in association with IIT-Madras, convenes an international workshop on screenwriting
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Professor Kamal Haasan walks around the class talking at length about how he wrote “Thevar Magan” as students try to catch up, scribbling notes on their copy of the spiral-bound script. One of them raises his hand to ask a doubt.
This scene is likely to play out at IIT-Madras between May 29 and June 3, 2009. And to be a part of that classroom of select 250 at the Chennai International Screenwriting Workshop, you need to apply before May 5, 2009.
Kamal Haasan, in association with IIT-Madras, has convened an international workshop and seminar on screenwriting. “It’s a strictly instructional event. Basic education is compulsory and candidates need to demonstrate their seriousness to get selected,” says the writer-filmmaker-actor.
Veteran writer Jean Claude Carriere will lecture students over video-conference and the 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 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.”
“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 Anjum Rajabali, who founded the screenwriting department at FTII and at Whistling Woods.
For long, screenwriting has been a neglected discipline even in film schools. “But even then, we have seen that the pedagogy of screenwriting has not taken roots in India,” adds Atul Tiwari.
The event is an initiative of Raajkamal Films International to bring screenwriting to the forefront.
To apply, students must send a copy of their resume, a passport-size photograph along with a 200-word synopsis on their favourite film and a list of their five favourite films to admissions@screenwritingindia.com
More details are available on http://screenwritingindia.com. For further queries, email helpdesk@screenwritingindia.com
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