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Sunday, September 13, 2009

Workshop on cinema for young filmmakers held

GUWAHATI, Sept 12: The Assam State Film (Finance and Development) Corporation Ltd (ASFFDC) recently held a two-day workshop on cinema in Guwahati. Young filmmakers got a chance to interact with stalwarts in the business during this workshop.

The workshop was inaugurated by national award winning filmmaker Jahnu Barua. Delivering the first lecture of the workshop on the topic ‘Filmmaking: An Overview’, Barua said technological support in filmmaking has attained great heights and a filmmaker should use these as per his own aesthetic sense.

ASFFDC chairperson Bobbeeta Sharma said the prime objective of the workshop was to disseminate information to the filmmakers of Asom on the changes in technology in the production of films and also to find avenues of marketing in the global film market.

G Monic Kumar, the assistant cameraman of Oscar winning film Slumdog Millionaire, was one of the resource persons of this workshop. He narrated his invaluable experiences of working in the film. His briefed the participants about the experimentation carried out during the shooting of the film with seven cameras – three film cameras and four digital cameras. There was also a panel discussion on ‘The problems and prospects of Assamese film industry’, stated a press release. THE SENTINEL

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