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FLASHBACK by SNS Sastry & HOSPITAL by Frederick Wiseman <at> "THE fd ZONE" ON 25TH MAY 2013, SAT 4 PM <at> FILMS DIVISION, MUMBAI

WELCOME TO THE 45TH EDITION OF “THE fd ZONE” !

ON 25TH MAY 2013, SAT 4 PM <at> FILMS DIVISION, MUMBAI

Curator's Note:

Who is Frederick Wiseman? The Dan David Prize citation sums it up all, 'Frederick Wiseman is widely acclaimed as the most important person ever to lift a camera for documentary filmmaking. His first film, 1967's Titicut Follies, remade the whole genre of nonfiction film, introducing path-breaking innovations such as the lack of a narrator, a spare and honest cinematography and a narrative line that resembled a Hollywood film in its dramatic development, even though the story was entirely true. He has influenced thousands of film directors and producers....In all of his work, Wiseman makes us reckon with our emotions, the cost to society of marginalizing those who cannot speak for themselves.

Pankaj Rishi Kumar will introduce the film and moderate a discussion after the films.

Programme:

FLASHBACK by SNS Sastry
(1974/India/21 min)
The film is a survey of the documentary film movement in India seen against the general back ground of documentary film making. We hear views Sukhdev and Sastry before the emergency and close to the end of their lives talking about documentary...
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HOSPITAL by Frederick Wiseman
(1970/USA/84min)
Synopsis: HOSPITAL shows the daily activities of a large urban hospital with the emphasis on the emergency ward and outpatient clinics. The cases depicted illustrate how medical expertise, availability of resources, organizational considerations, and the nature of communication among the staff and patients affect the delivery of appropriate health care.
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Wiseman's films are studies of social institutions, (42 till date): for example, hospital, high school, police department, criminal justice system, asylum, academy ... Two of his films, High School and Welfare, have been designated National Treasures by the U.S. Library of Congress.

He works only four to six weeks in the institutions he portrays, with almost no preparation. He spends the bulk of the production period editing the material, trying to find a rhythm to make a “movie.”

'[My films are] based on un-staged, un-manipulated actions... The editing is highly manipulative and the shooting is highly manipulative... What you choose to shoot, the way you shoot it, the way you edit it and the way you structure it... all of those things... represent subjective choices that you have to make... The compression within a sequence represents choice and then the way the sequences are arranged in relationship to the other represents choice. All aspects of documentary filmmaking involve choice and are therefore manipulative. But the ethical ... aspect of it is that you have to ... try to make a film that is true to the spirit of your sense of what was going on. ... My view is that these films are biased, prejudiced, condensed, compressed but fair. I think what I do is make movies that are not accurate in any objective sense, but accurate in the sense that I think they're a fair account of the experience I've had in making the movie.' -- Frederick Wiseman

I am here reminded of a Wiseman comment, on the impossibility of capturing and classifying reality: “Everybody’s running around with a butterfly net in their hand trying to capture smaller or larger aspects of it... but the butterfly keeps getting out of the net ...”
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FREE ENTREE

Date:
25TH MAY 2013, SAT 4 PM <at> FILMS DIVISION, MUMBAI

Venue:
RR Theatre
10th floor
Films Division
24, Pedder Road
Mumbai – 400026



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amudhan r.p. | 20 May 2013 11:22
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Chennai Monthly Screenings: May 2013

 

Chennai Monthly Screening: Docs, Shorts & Animation Films

25 May; 4-8 pm; Book Point (opp. to Spencer Plaza)

Jointly organized by MARUPAKKAM, Padapetti & Book Point

 

Guest speakers:

* Trotsky Maruthu, Artist and designer

 *Dr.M.D.Muthukumaraswamy, Director, National Folklore Support Centre, Chennai

 *Dr.Binitha Thampi Asst. professor, Department of Humanities and Social Sciences, Indian Institute of Science, Chennai.

 

Films to be screened:

 

1) Dilli 

Direction:  Sushmit Ghosh and Rintu Thomas.

25 min; Hindi with English subtitles; 2011; Documentary


The movie film brings out a stark comparison of the rampant progress and development of the megalopolis vis-à-vis thousands who are left homeless while the whole city is modernized and revamped.

 

2) Cotton for my Shroud

Direction: Kavitha Bahl and Nandan Saxena

77 min; Hindi, Marathi with English subtitles; 2011; Documentary

Cotton for my Shroud investigates the ongoing farmer suicide crisis in India and the culpability of the multinational Monsanto and the Indian government. It examines the strategy of multinational corporations to control seed supply, and corrupt politicians' willingness to help in this second colonization of India.

 

3) Algo Queda (Something Remains)

Direction: Ana Lorenz

16 min; Spanish with English subtitles; 2011; Short film

The film talks about the arduous task that caregivers of Alzheimer patients perform; about the dedication, that selfless sacrifice expecting nothing in return, when only the worst of endings is yet to come.

 

4) Special package of animation films (curated by Trotsky Maruthu)

 

All are welcome!




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debaranjan sarangi | 17 May 2013 03:19
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Please come for the screening of 'At The Crossroads' in Bhubaneswar [5 Attachments]



BHUBANESWAR FILM ARCHIVE
Inviting you for Documentary Film Screening
Film : At The Crossroads             Director : Deba Ranjan          Duration : 90 minutes
Language : Odia, Telgu, Hindi and Kui (with English subtitles)
Youtube trailer : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=biH8pmg9vh4
Venue : Lohia Academy, Behind Chitrakut Ashram, Bhubaneswar
Date and Time : 18th May, 2013 (Saturday) at 6pm
Contact : 9437019395 (Sudhir), 9437762272 (Deba)

Synopsis:
The Nehruvian era made ordinary people - mostly adivasis and dalits - lose their lands, forests and streams in the name of ‘national development’. That development never reached them. Not only they remained as deprived of basic health care and education as ever, but also of even safe drinking water though surrounded by reservoirs and dams. While this state injustice continued unabated, the post-liberalization era made these very people `anti-national’, ‘anti-development’ and `Maoists/Naxalites’, when they resisted corporate land grab for mining and industrialization. This branding became and continues to be an easy license to kill them with impunity.
Southern Odisha is witness to this war between the hapless people and the neoliberal development paradigm. It led to CPI (Maoist) consolidating its presence in this area in the recent past. The film AT THE CROSSROADS tries to explore the predicament, the dilemma and the confusion of the local people, especially, of adivasis and dalits in this war zone.
The film covers the Balimela cut-off areas, Bonda Hill and Mathili area of Malkangiri; the anti-bauxite resistance areas of Kashipur and Niyamgiri,  Sunabeda sanctuary; and Narayanpatna area. These are mainly in Malkangiri, Koraput, Rayagada, Nuapada and Kalahandi districts. It took three years to complete the film.
It captures the intensity of old dilemmas while asking some new questions.





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sunit sinha | 17 May 2013 12:04
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Fwd: Children's theatre workshop with National School Of Drama Alumni


   
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Children's Summer Theatre Workshop

'First Act'
09 June to 23 June 2013
With National School Of Drama Alumni and Associate of Trinity College London

Save Rs 1000/-, enroll before 25 May 2013

Training in ‘Acting & Life Skills’ –
for 8 to 15 year olds

Spread over 15 days, First Act will introduce essential life skills through the medium of theatre, and the avant-garde methods applied in acting worldwide. In the process, it will also guide children to overcome shyness and stage-fright; help them develop unique flair for problem-solving; and empower them to self-express with autonomy. This specially devised module for First Act will encourage teamwork among participants, and aid them in enhancing self-image by fostering mutual trust, all leading to a short performance at the end of the program.

Faculty

Rakesh Jasrotia
Director, First Act
Alumni National School Of Drama (NSD)

Rakesh completed his Master’s in ‘Theatre Techniques and Acting’ at the National School of Drama in 2002. Rakesh has worked extensively in the field of Theatre Education. He was a faculty at Jamia Millia Islamia in the Dept. of Mass Communications, and during the same time, he conducted several workshops at premiere institutes, including the IIMs and IITs. Currently, he finds his focus in working with children. He has been conducting children’s theatre workshops across the country, in association with various NGOs and schools. Read More >>

Vaishali Chakravarty
Associate Director, First Act
Associte Of Trinity College London

She is one of the leading theatre practitioners of Delhi, and a member of Actor Factor Theatre Company. In her distinguished career, Vaishali worked with IPTA Mumbai to begin with, before joining Actor Factor in the year 2007. In addition to learning under theatre veterans like Vineet Kumar, Sabitri Devi and Heisnam Kanhailal, she has formally trained in Drama & Speech at the Trinity College London, and was subsequently awarded the ‘Associate of Trinity College London – Diploma with Distinction’. Currently, Vaishali works extensively with children.
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Schedule

Dates: 09 June to 23 June 2013

Time: 10:00 am to 1:00 pm

Venue: Actor Factor Studio, 3rd Floor 221-A Shahpur Jat, New Delhi
           (10-min walk from the Hauz Khas metro station)

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MIFF | 17 May 2013 11:33
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Suggestions for MIFF - 2014 [1 Attachment]

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Dear Friend,

	Films Division received tremendous support from the film fraternity
in the round of meetings to discuss various issues regarding MIFF at
Mumbai, Delhi and Kolkata and we are grateful to all of you for the
support.

	We are now approaching the final structure for MIFF ’14 and seek your
valuable suggestions on some important aspects of the festival. Please
do spare some time to forward us your suggestions on the following :

a)	CUT-OFF DATES		:	We propose to have two cut-off dates (for sending
entries for selection in Indian Competition section only) to ease the
process of pre-selection of films : 31.7.2013 for films completed
before 30.05.2013, and 15.9.2013 for films being completed by
31.08.2013.

b)	FORMAT			:	Apple ProRes (HQ) is being proposed the default
screening format for the festival and also for sending competition
entries.

c)	ANIMATION FILMS	:	We propose to do away with Animation category
under the Indian competition section in view of the poor quality of
entries received in the previous editions. All Animation films will
now be entered into the International competition section.

d)	FICTION FILMS 		:	In the previous editions of MIFF, fiction films
of upto 70 minutes duration have been accepted for competition. At
times this causes confusion with festivals dealing with feature length
films. We propose to re-name the category as ‘Short Fiction Films’ and
to restrict the maximum duration to 40 or 50 minutes.

e)	ENTRY FORM		:	A copy of the entry form used for MIFF ’12 is
attached to the mail. Kindly go through the same and point-out if
anything needs to be removed / added to the information or regulations
part of the entry form.

	May I request you to respond to our request within a week to help us
take an informed decision on these issues.

( Anil Kumar N.)
Co-ordinator MIFF 2014

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Gautam Grover | 16 May 2013 17:38
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Authenticity of TIIFF film festival in Bangalore.

All,

I recieved a mail on docuwallahs last week promoting this film festival
in Bangalore. 


I spent considerable time on their website today trying to figure
details to send my short film.

They have amazing posters, graphics and trivia on global films but when I
looked for their credentials, I did not find much.

I contacted the number and spoke to someone who acknowledged they
were doing this festival for the first time but had it planned 
like the Indian version of Cannes unlike festivals in India which 
were not events.

He said the jury, venue , sponsors, organisers etc were still 
being finalised but they were accepting films at a Rs. 2500 registration
and every film would be screened. Winners would get cash (not quantified), 
a film kit ( he said it maybe a canon 5d from the sponsor)and an opportunity 
to direct a feature film (he had no clue about the b udget, script, language)
owing to their association with Viacom 18.

I did a Google check and figured their company had organised an 
outdoor screening of films in Bangalore and had consumer cases registered 
against them.They have a Linkedin presence which has 0 contacts.
A one page facebook presence with a poster asking for registrations.

When I tried to further clarify on sms, the person called back and was irritated 
at just another filmmaker questioning the festival's credentials before applying.
Finally, he got back to selling his festival and wants me to wait till August 
and see his vision come true.



Am I watching too much of newshour or is this festival- gate?



Gautam

 









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Shashwati Talukdar | 15 May 2013 12:15
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Request for Proposals: IFA’s Arts Research and Documentation Programme


This is our favourite time of the year—application time. India Foundation for the Arts is happy to announce that we are inviting proposals under our Arts Research and Documentation programme for the year 2013-2014. The last date for the receipt of draft proposals is June 15, 2013 and the last date for the receipt of final proposals is July 15, 2013. So mark your calendars and start writing!

For details on the grant application procedure please read the complete Request for Proposals below. You can also DOWNLOAD a pdf version of the file in English. The document will soon be available in other languages on the IFA website.

We hope you share this email on your organisational website, blog, Facebook and Twitter page and with your friends because we want as many people as possible to hear about this opportunity. Please help spread the word!

Last but not the least, stay in touch; call us, write to us and ask us a million questions. We are here to help you develop your proposal.

Looking forward to hearing your ideas!

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Request for Proposals: Arts Research and Documentation

Are you a researcher or an artist interested in: 1) Studying the changing practices in the contemporary arts? Or 2) Exploring how artistic practices are constructed and come to be regarded as ‘tradition’?

Scope
This grant programme supports scholars/researchers and artists to undertake research and documentation projects falling under either one of the two following themes:

1) Research and documentation that seeks to study new developments in contemporary arts practice.
As a researcher or artist, you may want to study new developments or changing practices in the contemporary arts. For instance, you may want to study the intersection of technology-television and the Internet-and contemporary art. You may want to investigate site-specific work that engages with local communities or the natural environment. Or you may want to examine democratic art practices that blur the boundary between the artist and the audience.

You might want to use existing methods of research and/or create new conceptual or technical tools that depart from existing disciplinary methodologies to illuminate and contribute to the study of contemporary arts practices.

2) Research and documentation that critically examines how artistic traditions are constructed or reinvented.
The word ‘tradition’ comes from the Latin word traditionem, which literally means ‘handing over’. What is handed over from one generation to the next may be knowledge, beliefs, legends, practices and so on. Tradition can also refer to long established ways of thinking or acting within a continuing pattern of cultural beliefs or practices.

However, because tradition provides a powerful source of endorsement and sanction for certain practices, beliefs, values and norms of behaviour, it is often invented or reconstructed, as against simply inherited. Many practices which are seen as tradition are in fact quite recent inventions, often deliberately constructed for a variety of reasons, such as to legitimize certain actions, power equations or social hierarchies, to foster group cohesion and cement collective identities, or to support political ideologies, agendas or interests. Artistic traditions are also deliberately re-described and reinvented to create new audiences and markets for them.

Support under this theme is available for researchers or artists who are interested in studying why or how traditions are constructed. For example, you may be interested in examining the new meanings, values and symbols that are created when a tradition is invented or reinvented or what might be excluded, lost, concealed or suppressed in the process. You may be interested in how this phenomenon alters the relationship between the artist, the art form/practice and the context of its production and reception. Or you may be interested in looking at the influences and ideologies that underlie or determine such constructions of tradition.

Application
IFA staff would be glad to answer your questions regarding this grant programme. You are welcome to approach us to discuss your ideas or send us a draft proposal for our suggestions and comments no later than June 15th, 2013.

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You may choose to write your proposal in any Indian language including English.

Your project may have a minimum duration of twelve months and a maximum duration of eighteen months.

You can request for support up to Rs 3 lakh. If you are a filmmaker, you can request for support up to Rs 5 lakh.

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debaranjan sarangi | 15 May 2013 11:48
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Documentary Film Screening in Bhubaneswar

BHUBANESWAR FILM ARCHIVE

Inviting you for Documentary Film Screening

Film : At The Crossroads             Director : Deba Ranjan    Duration : 90 minutes

Language : Odia, Telgu, Hindi and Kui (with English subtitles)

Youtube trailer : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=biH8pmg9vh4
Venue : Lohia Academy, Behind Chitrakut Ashram, Bhubaneswar

Date and Time : 18th May, 2013 (Saturday) at 6pm

Contact : 9437019395 (Sudhir), 9437762272 (Deba)
Synopsis:

The Nehruvian era made ordinary people - mostly adivasis and dalits - lose their lands, forests and streams in the name of ‘national development’. That development never reached them. Not only they remained as deprived of basic health care and education as ever, but also of even safe drinking water though surrounded by reservoirs and dams. While this state injustice continued unabated, the post-liberalization era made these very people `anti-national’, ‘anti-development’ and `Maoists/Naxalites’, when they resisted corporate land grab for mining and industrialization. This branding became and continues to be an easy license to kill them with impunity.

Southern Odisha is witness to this war between the hapless people and the neoliberal development paradigm. It led to CPI (Maoist) consolidating its presence in this area in the recent past. The film AT THE CROSSROADS tries to explore the predicament, the dilemma and the confusion of the local people, especially, of adivasis and dalits in this war zone.

The film covers the Balimela cut-off areas, Bonda Hill and Mathili area of Malkangiri; the anti-bauxite resistance areas of Kashipur and Niyamgiri,  Sunabeda sanctuary; and Narayanpatna area. These are mainly in Malkangiri, Koraput, Rayagada, Nuapada and Kalahandi districts. It took three years to complete the film.

It captures the intensity of old dilemmas while asking some new questions.



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THE fd ZONE on 18th May 2013

Dear Friends,

Respect for women is the need of the hour. The recent public uproar
against the abuse meted out to women indiscriminately exemplifies the
satiation point. Enough is enough... women need to accord to
themselves the respect they deserve and demand society give them their
due.
Invoking Justice is about the strength and conviction to break away
with time honored traditions, fight against injustice within the
confines of our legal framework and demand the right of human dignity
sans gender. Social change can only be absorbed when there is some
alignment with the larger context and this initiative by a handful of
brave women needs to be spread far and wide.
Much Ado about Knotting is a light hearted treatment of
commercialization of the institution of marriage that will strike a
resonant chord with most of us.

Programme:
INVOKING JUSTICE
86 min, Tamil with English subtitles.
Co-producers: ITVS, NHK, Japan, YLE 2 with support from the Jan
Vrijman Foundation.

SYNOPSIS
In Southern India, family disputes are settled by Jamaats—all male
bodies which apply Islamic Sharia law to cases without allowing women
to be present, even to defend themselves. Recognizing this fundamental
inequity, a group of women in 2004 established a women’s Jamaat, which
soon became a network of 12,000 members spread over 12 districts.
Despite enormous resistance, they have been able to settle more than
8,000 cases to date, ranging from divorce to wife beating to brutal
murders and more. The filmmaker Deepa Dhanraj follows several cases,
shining a light on how the women’s Jamaat has acquired power through
both communal education and the leaders’ persistent, tenacious and
compassionate investigation of the crimes. In astonishing scenes we
watch the Jamaat meetings, where women often shout over each other
about the most difficult facets of their personal lives. Above all,
the women’s Jamaat exists to hold their male counterparts and local
police to account, and to reform a profoundly corrupt system which
allows men to take refuge in the most extreme interpretation of the
Qur’an to justify violence towards women.

Director: DEEPA DHANRAJ
Deepa Dhanraj is a writer, director, and producer living in Bangalore,
South India. She studied English Literature in Madras University. She
has produced and directed numerous award-winning documentaries,
”Something Like a War , “The Legacy of Malthus” ,“Sudesha” (Faust
Film/ARD). “Nari Adalat/ Women's Courts “and “What Has Happened to
This City? “.The films have been screened on ARTE, CBC, and SBS. Her
films have been invited to festivals such as IDFA, Berlinale, Leipzig,
Oberhausen, and Films de Femmes, Creteil France, Tampere, Vancouver
and Chicago.
She has a special interest in education and has created special video
materials to address challenges faced by first generation learners.

The film has been screened at IDFA, November 2011,One World
International Human rights Festival Prague, 2012,Doc Point
Helsinki,Bollywood and Beyond,Germany,The International Documentary
and short Film Festival,Kerala,the Human Rights Film Festival
Mexico,the INKO womens film festival,Chennai, and the NY Asian
International Film festival, Ladies in the City/film fest ,Monaco and
Bir Duino Human Rights film Festival,Bishkek,Kyrgyzstan are coming up.

MUCH ADO ABOUT KNOTTING
52 Minutes, English subtitles,2012.

SYNOPSIS
Born into a society obsessed with marriages a young girl, a
not-so-young man and an NRI couple are compelled by tradition to look
for matches via classifieds, matchmaking bureaus and websites.
Confronted with innumerable criteria that determine who is acceptable
and who isn’t, they question themselves and their choices. As they
introspect, the melee of the matchmaking industry continues. At every
turn, there are service providers who are ready to snoop, style and
solicit potentials on their behalf. People are searching for the ideal
one endlessly and the oft-heard question is – When are you getting
married? Much Ado About Knotting is a lighthearted chronicle of this
very predicament that almost every Indian faces.

Directors:
1.      ANANDANA KAPUR: Anandana Kapur is an independent filmmaker and
social scientist based out of New Delhi, India. She has previously
worked in broadcast television and is a published author on Media, Art
and Gender. As part of a cultural diversity initiative she holds
lectures on Cinema and Culture for exchange students from US, Canada
and Europe. Anandana is also a wiki-educator and her latest works
include a group exhibition on Re-envisioning in Nicosia, Cyprus and
the critically acclaimed and award-winning documentary The Great
Indian Jugaad. She is currently working on a film on grass roots
innovation in India.
2.      GEETIKA NARANG ABBASI: Born and brought up in Delhi, Geetika Narang
Abbasi pursued advertising after completing her graduation in English
Literature from Delhi University. Soon, her love for films led her to
the field of filmmaking. Having worked on various formats of
filmmaking, from documentaries to TV commercials with different
production houses, producers and directors, she ventured into
independent filmmaking with her first short fiction, the multiple
award-winning Good Night. Subsequently, she has edited and directed
several documentaries that have been recognized and showcased
nationally as well as internationally.

Date and time: 18th May, 2013. 4pm.

Venue:
RR Theatre
10th floor
Films Division
24, Pedder Road
Mumbai – 400026

Future Screenings
25th: HOSPITAL by Frederick Wiseman (1970)
1st and 2nd June: 2 day film festival on Kashmir

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Nandan Saxena | 14 May 2013 19:59
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DAMMED

Dear friends,
Watch the vignette that gives us a window into the struggle of those abandoned by their elected representatives:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nfNjs_6Z-mc

We would love to hear from you on this.
Nandan
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Film-maker
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sunit sinha | 14 May 2013 11:32
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Your play, stage-performed by Actor Factor

Here’s an opportunity for young and aspiring playwrights to get their short plays designed and stage-performed by Delhi’s premier theatre group, Actor Factor Theatre Company. Known for its ability to consistently create original content for the stage, over the last 6 years, Actor Factor now aims to encourage original thinkers and writers for Theatre with this new endeavor. Participants have the freedom to choose to write their plays in any genre or form for the contest. The selected plays will be staged at prominent venues in Delhi NCR and some key performing centers in India. Read More >>

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Step 2: Fill up the form, attach a typed copy of your script (a maximum of 2 scripts) along with. In case you have a handwritten script, attach a clean photocopy of the same with the form.

Step 3: Write a small paragraph with each script (not more than 100 words) expressing what the playwright thinks his/her play is about.

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