

The first screenwriting workshop will be held from October 12 – 17, 2014 at the Courtyard Marriott, Chakan, Pune, followed by two more workshops and one-to-one consultation sessions over the next six months. Actor Konkona Sensharma and editor Ranjeet Bahadur are among the nine writers whose scripts have been selected. The National Film Development Corporation (Nfdc) has announced the nine scripts selected for the second edition of the National Script Lab to be held from October 2014 – March 2015. Nfdc announces nine scripts selected for National Script Lab 2014 Clermont Ferrand International Short Film Festival He has served on the jury of festivals like Clermont Ferrand and International Documentary and Short Film Festival of Kerala. Even after making three critically acclaimed and successful feature films like Valu (The Wild Bull), Vihir (The Well) and Deool (Temple), Umesh continues to make short films. Umesh Kulkarni won his first national award for his diploma film titled Girni (The Grinding Machine) that he made as a student of the Film and Television Institute of India (Ftii). Translating an idea into a screenplay and working with a cast and crew are some of the core areas the workshop will deal with. The workshop will be primarily aimed at guiding film enthusiasts to make short films. Umesh Vinayak Kulkarni National award winning director Umesh Kulkarni will conduct the fourth edition of ‘Shoot a short’, a workshop on short filmmaking in Pune from December 26-29.
