About CFOL

Center For Open Learning

 

The Centre for Open Learning (CFOL) is the outreach vertical of Film and Television Institute of India, (FTII), Pune. This outreach initiative works for democratizing cinema education and providing quality cinema literacy to masses. The outreach activities of the Institute began in 2017 as Skilling India in Film and Television (SKIFT), which is now integrated as CFOL.

 

Under CFOL, FTII organizes short courses in various aspects and film making and television production. These courses are held online, offline, on-campus in Pune as well as off-campus across the country. These courses, particularly the online courses are also conducted in evening as well as on weekends. 

 

In association with State Governments, UT Administrations, Universities, Educational Institutes etc., from May 2017 to till date, SKIFT/ CFOL has conducted courses in 60+ cities from Kargil to Car Nicobar Islands and from Bikaner to Imphal, on approximately 90 topics. In this journey of 07 – 08 years, SKIFT/ CFOL has organized 600+ short courses in online & offline mode thereby training around 18,000 participants in the field of Cinema & Television, including participants from outside India.

 

Under SKIFT/ CFOL, FTII also imparted in-service trainings to the employees of Government as well as Private Organizations and also exclusive trainings to the students of Universities & Educational Institutes. Continuing further, FTII also conducted Faculty Development Programmes as well as Training The Trainers Programmes in the field of Cinema and Television. 

 

FTII is now expanding its outreach to another level by inking partnerships with other educational institutes. In 2022, FTII became the knowledge partner of University of Ladakh and Swami Ramanand Teerth Marathwada University, Nanded, thereby guiding these Universities in Film and Television academics. Further, under this academic guidance of FTII, these Universities launched & conducted multiple certificate courses in the field of Screen Acting, Smartphone Filmmaking etc.