- Fellowship Programme
- Session 2
- 10 - 13 November 2017
The second session of let'sdoc 2017 began with the ten filmmakers reuniting after a month of
having worked further on their projects. The tutors for this session were Nilanjan Bhattacharya,
Surabhi Sharma and Bishnu Dev Halder. This time, the participants seemed more focused with
their concepts and most had shot substantially more with their characters. During the four days
of the programme, their new materials and write-ups were intensively deconstructed and
discussed to enable them to gain a clear insight into their films and develop a final approach.
Day 1 of the workshop witnessed the filmmakers presenting their projects again and sharing a
preview of how they have progressed with their work. The tutors responded with an nitial
feedback, to be taken up in the later sessions.
Day 2 was more intense, the participants reconnected with the tutors from the previous session
as well as presenting their projects for the first time with the tutor who was seeing them for the
first time. The interactions amongst the participant group itself happened on a more personal
level, as they felt more of a bonding. The
effort all around was to discover those areas which still had room for improvement.
Day 3 continued with the second round of each group of participants meeting each tutor and
discussing the reworked projects. The afternoon had a joint session specially focussing on the
write-ups for each project. Each participant presented their logline, synopsis and treatment and
then the tutors discussed each in detail, marking out weak areas and providing inputs in making
the writings more crisp and lucid.
The day was rounded off with the screening of "Twilight of a Life" by Sylvian Biegeleisen, which
led to an extended session of further discussions about the art of filmmaking and storytelling.
Day 4, the final day, was set for the final presentations by each participant before the entire
group. The session was structured as a formal pitch with the participants getting a standard
fixed time for their verbal presentations and their clips. The tutors then scored each participant
on the basis of their presentation, clarity, expression, visualisation as in their clips and the
creative viability and promise of their projects.
The programme concluded with the presentation of the two grant awards to two projects as
selected by the panel of tutors - "Stories from the Exile" (by Tushnik Chaudhuri and Soumya
Chakraborti) and "Sheenkhalai - The Blue Skin" (by Shilpi Batra Adwani and Hitesh Adwani).
The day ended with the screening of yet another landmark film - "People I Could Have Been
and Maybe Am" by Boris Gerrets, followed up by a concluding dinner.
Congratulations to Tushnik & Soumya and Shilpi & Hitesh !
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