A training on Smartphone Film Making, organised by Film and Television Institute of India (FTII) in collaboration with Department of Information & Public Relations (DIPR), got underway today at Kohima.
Additional Director IPR Dzüvinuo Theünuo, in her inaugural address, said: “Technology doesn’t wait for anyone but we must try to keep up with the pace, who better than the premier technology institution in India and globally acclaimed FTII resource person with vast experience to educate and train the upcoming generation interested in filmmaking in our state.”
She also said that for every craft and art one has to start from basics, and one needs to learn the technical aspects for which the FTII has come in. She also expressed gratitude to the FTII team for proving the technical expertise and training the young upcoming professional of the state.
The collaboration of FTII and IPR Department could be done only after 75 years but is still not late for taking the state filmmaking to the next level, Theünuo added.
She said that four online courses had already been conducted with the FTII and in continuation with the Azaad KaAmrit Mahotsav, the FTII is conducting the offline training, based on good response.
Registrar FTII Sayyid Rabeehashmi, IIS, said filmmaking is about creativity and that of all the tools needed to make a film, creativity is the most important.
He told the trainees that the film institute was established in 1960 as Film Institute of India and later became Television Institute of India in 1974. He said that the FTII has so far educated 14,000 people including Rajkumar Rao and Shabana Azmi and produced super hit films like 3 idiots.
Rabeehashmi also encouraged the trainees to take up postgraduate courses as this training is just the beginning of the filmmaking process.
The five-day training in Smartphone Film Making being conducted at the Conference Hall of the Directorate of Information & Public Relations Kohima will culminate 21 October.
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Later in the day, Sayyid Rabeehashmi, IIS, Joint Secretary Investment and Development Authority of Nagaland (IDAN), Reny Wilfred, officials from the Information & Public Relations and Technical Education departments called on the Development Commissioner, Nagaland, Amardeep S. Bhatia IAS at Development Commissioner’s Office at Nagaland Civil Secretariat, Kohima.
Preliminary discussions were held about the prospect of FTII offering various courses in film making and related courses for film enthusiasts in the state by collaborating with educational institutes and concerned government departments.
In the meeting, deliberations were held at length regarding logistic arrangements, targeted group of students and trainees, course contents and feasibilities of offering short term as well as long term courses.
