2022 film Posters

FACILITATOR: DR HEMA RAMANATHAN

At the Footprint Film Festival 2021, the workshop on SCRIPTWRITING: FROM TELL TO SHOW provided an overview of how to take an idea and build it into a screenplay.

In this workshop, Take 2: Scriptwriting - From Tell to Show, we will review the five stages of scriptwriting and explore the features and purposes of each stage. We will then focus on Stage 4 - Treatment/Script. We will watch one of the film entries to the festival and draw from it what the Treatment/Script should have been. Maybe you can give the director some ideas of how this could have been shot differently, and better!

Appropriate for all groups.

When: 3rd July, 2022

Time: 11:15 AM - 12:15 PM

FACILITATOR: NILANJAN CHOWDHURY

We hope to discuss and explore the relationship between journalism and documentary filmmaking during this workshop at the Footprint Film Festival 2022. Using a few insights from my experiences as a news producer and a filmmaker  ,we try to look at how journalism and documentaries have often complemented each other yet existed as separate entities. But these days, where almost everyone has access to basic film making tools  and everyone is striving to get viewers and "likes" in the real world and the virtual one, both journalists  and filmmakers  are  often using  the same tools and releasing their content on similar platforms. Beyond just documentation of facts and events, it's a  good story that everyone wants. 

Appropriate for a younger age group.

When: 2nd July, 2022 

Time: 11:30 AM - 12:30 PM

FACILITATOR: MALLIKA PRASAD SINHA

The workshop will be on Voice. Mallika will share 3 ideas with participants 

1. What is the human voice 

2. Voice and creativity 

3. Voice and character 

When: 3rd July, 2022  

Time: 2:45 PM - 3:45 PM

FACILITATOR: SIDHARTH SAXENA

Upgrade your skills and get the best out of your mobile camera.

Practical tips on lighting, camera movement, sound recording.

Learn how to create a sequence of shots in order to tell a story. 

When: 2nd July, 2022   

Time: 5:15 PM - 6:15 PM

FACILITATOR: FARHANOOR IMTIAZ TURJJO

Learn basic filmmaking skills from a self taught filmmaker. 

When: 2nd July, 2022   

Time: 3:00 PM - 4:00 PM

Hema Ramanathan firmly believes that the arts encourage students to channel their energies in constructive forms and provide a non-verbal vocabulary for expression. She is a life-long student of the arts, a constructively critical audience, and preferably a behind-the-scenes organizer rather than an on-stage performer. As a teacher and teacher educator for over 40 years, she has included the arts as a process and a product in her pedagogy: interpreting literature through films and storytelling, and performing poetry with music.

Nilanjan Chowdhury is an artist and a media professional who presently shares his life between Kolkata and Delhi.

As a broadcast journalist, he has reported, produced, and coordinated news teams for over two decades from many countries in South and Central Asia and has been part of the 2016 International Emmy® Award nominated team for Al Jazeera English television.

Chowdhury's artworks often emerges from his experiences as a journalist and he has participated in various group art exhibitions in Kolkata and New Delhi.

Chowdhury trained in visual communication from the National Institute of Design, Ahmedabad.

Mallika Prasad is the founder/creative director at Actors Ensemble India Forum (since 2007) – which is a practice-led arts research company. She has taught at National School of Drama, NINASM and University of Hyderabad in India, and at LASALLE, ITI and NAFA in Singapore. With over two decades of experience as performer/educator/actor trainer, she has developed Vachika – a uniquely Indian take on voice training for the contemporary performer.

Sidharth Saxena is a director, cinematographer & editor based in Mumbai – exploring this new paradigm in filmmaking.

Raised by filmmaker parents, Sidharth made his first film, ‘Chail’ at the age of 13. The film won ‘Best Student Film Award’ at Sadho International Poetry Film Festival in 2009.

In 2019, he completed his graduation in filmmaking from Srishti Institute of Art, Design & Technology, Bangalore. Inspired by Italian Neorealism, Sidharth cast his entire family for his graduation film - ‘Checkmate’ and used his own house as set and location. 

Farhanoor Imtiaz Turjjo is an aspiring filmmaker and a college student . He has a wonderful gift of storytelling, combining scenes, frames and music. He always tries to add a reality check in all of his films. He is enthusiastic about filmmaking and wants to explore more in this field.