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[ Filmmaker/s : MEENAKSHI & VINAY RAI ]
[ Theme : Children , Media/ Film ]
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The film attempts to evolve a set of indicators for the filmmakers on what makes a good children's film. 
[ Filmmaker/s : PARANJOY GUHA THAKURTA ]
[ Theme : Media/ Film ]
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The film examines the commercial nature of media organisations all over the world, and in India in particular, which adversely impacts the democratic ideal of objective journalism. [ Filmmaker/s : SUMIT KHANNA ]
[ Theme : Urbanscapes , Media/ Film ]
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The film offers glimpses into the lives of assistant directors in an attempt to understand their role in the film making process. How some have realised their dreams whereas most are driven to the point of despair. [ Filmmaker/s : GARGI SEN ]
[ Theme : Media/ Film ]
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The film engages with different audiences in order to explore the concept, need and possibilities of public television in India.
- Silver Award, Film & Video Production Category, Houston World Film Festival
[ Filmmaker/s : BINDU NAIR ]
[ Theme : Gender & Sexuality , Media/ Film ]
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The film explores stereotypical images of women portrayed on Indian television by juxtaposing them against lived realities. [ Filmmaker/s : ISHANI K. DUTTA ]
[ Theme : Urbanscapes , Media/ Film ]
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[ Filmmaker/s : UMESH AGGARWAL ]
[ Theme : Media/ Film ]
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Indian media has much to be proud of as a significant part of Indian democracy. But, there is an increasing public disenchantment, not just with its shrillness, sermonising and sensationalism, but with its core value - integrity. News market in India is getting too crowded while the advertising pie is getting thinner. Media houses are furiously engaged in finding new and innovative ways to augment their dwindling revenues. One route to prosperity is passing off sponsored news as professional news - journalism is up for sale and selling of editorial space has become both blatant and institutionalised and neither the print nor the electronic media are immune to the malaise.[ Filmmaker/s : MADHUSREE DUTTA ]
[ Theme : Media/ Film , Urbanscapes ]
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A series of two short Films.
An impressionistic sketch of 'the public' as created by our cinema and its relationship with cinema itself.
- Official Selection, 60th Berlinale International Film Festival
Avijit Mukul Kishore is based in Mumbai and works as a cinematographer. Besides filmmaking, he has been involved in video-art installations and pedagogy and theatre groups - Music Theatre Workshop and Ruchika Theatre Group. He studied cinematography at Film and Television institute of India, Pune.
DO RAFIQUE by Rafeeq Ellias
Rafeeq meets Rafique Bagdadi, an extraordinary living archive of the city and its cinema, and explores the cinema city through him.
An international award-winning advertising and magazine photographer, Rafeeq Ellias has shot three previous documentaries as a cinematographer. “The Legend of Fat Mama” was his first documentary as a director and scriptwriter as well. The Film has won two National Awards, one award (best short film) at the Mumbai International Film Festival. He is currently preparing for his first feature film.
[ Filmmaker/s : MADHUSREE DUTTA ]
[ Theme : Media/ Film , Urbanscapes ]
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A series of two short Films.
HAVE YOU DREAMT CINEMA? by Hansa Thapliyal
DHANANJAY KULKARNI 'CHANDRAGUPT' by Rrivu Laha
A journey of migrants to the dream city through the tract of filmi aspiration.
A graduate of the Film and Television Institute of India, Rrivu Laha works as a freelance Cinematographer and Director. He began his career with assisting Rakesh Sharma on his film Final Solution.His first documentary Aamchi Kasauti received several awards and accolades at various national and international film festivals. He is currently a fellow of Commutiny Youth Collective working on ‘addressing information gaps in the area of food security through creation, compilation and use of audio visual materials’.
[ Filmmaker/s : MADHUSREE DUTTA ]
[ Theme : Media/ Film , Urbanscapes ]
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A series of two short Films.
The Film deals with the cityscape of crime and its representation in cinema. It reverberates with Bombay cinema's sounds of crime, its grandiloquent echo effects, percussion and music. The young men in a working class neighbourhood, their silences, their pleasure, their aspirations, are playfully pitted against this expressive sound track, creating irony and resonance around the sense of crime.
DARK ROOM by Renu Savant
The city as a dark room creates many chemical reactions through its agitation and development of emulsions.
Official Selection, 60th Berlinale International Film Festival
After completing MA and drifting around as a lecturer, assistant director, a journalist and writer, Renu Savant is currently studying film direction at the Film and Television Institute of India, Pune. Making images and forming idea connections is what hooks her to the audio-visual and chemical/ virtual world.
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