Post Date: 13 Jun, 2022

SUMMER FILM APPRECIATION COURSE BEGINS; 41  PARTICIPANTS FROM 18 STATES ENROLL FOR THE COURSE.


The much-awaited annual Summer Film Appreciation Course (online) began today.


The course is jointly conducted by Film and Television Institute of India (FTII) Pune in association with National Film Development Corporation (NFDC) -  National Film Archive of India. Pankaj Saxena, documentary filmmaker and former faculty of screen studies at FTII is the Course Director.


The course was inaugurated by award winning filmmaker, editor, screenplay writer and FTII alumna, Ms. Arunaraje Patil (FTII, Editing, 1969).


Dr. Milind Damle (Executive Head,  FTII Centre for Open Learning), Amlan Charaborthy, (Film Research Officer, FTII), and D Ramakrishnan (Deputy General Manager, NFDC) were present at the inaugural session.


The Course is being attended by 41 participants, which includes 14 women, from the 18 states; Maharashtra, Delhi-NCR,  Telangana, West Bengal, Tamilnadu, Himachal Pradesh, Madhya Pradesh, Uttar Pradesh, Chhattisgarh, Bihar, Haryana, Karnataka, Goa, Odisha, Jharkhand, Kerala, Assam and Gujrat.