Film Writers Association (FWA) has announced the 3rd Indian Screenwriters Conference. The central theme this year is “Untold Stories : Screenwriting and the truth of our times”.
– Venue : Venue: St. Andrew’s Auditorium, Bandra (W), Mumbai
– Dates: February 25, 26, 27, 2013
– Only FWA members can attend. So if you are not a member of FWA yet, do become one. Click here to go to FWA site for more details.
And here’s the programme detail..
Day 1 – Monday, February 25
1000-1020: Introduction to the Conference by Convenor & Co-Convenor, ISC
1020-1030: Welcome Address by President, FWA
1030-1100: Minister HRD (expected) declares the Conference
1100-1130: The Chief Guest’s address
1130-1145: Tea/Coffee break
1145-1230: Keynote Speech by Shiv Vishwanathan
1230-1300: Audience Q&A with Keynote Speaker
1300-1400: Lunch break
1400-1545: Do screenwriters have a social responsibility?
Moderator: K. Hariharan
Panel: Javed Akhtar, Tom Schulman, Rakeysh Mehra, Girish Kulkarni, Dr. Chandraprakash Dwivedi, Vinod Ranganath, Gajra Kottary
1545-1600: Tea/Coffee break
1600-1745: How does our popular cinema and TV portray women?
Moderator: Ranjani Mazumdar
Panel: Ashutosh Gowariker, Anurag Basu, Kumara Raja, Preiti Mamgain, Satyam Tripathi, Ila Bedi
Day 2 : Tuesday, February 26
1000-1130: The charge of the new ‘write’ brigade!
Moderator: Pubali Chaudhuri
Panel: Juhi Chaturvedi, Habib Faisal, Ravi Jadhav, Akshat Verma, Reema Kagti
1130-1145: Tea/Coffee break
1145-1330: Is the old order cracking? New ways of storytelling.
Moderator: Govind Nihalani
Panel: Urmi Juvekar, Anurag Kashyap (TBC), Sanjay Patil, Bejoy Nambiar, Abbas Tyrewala
1330-1430: Lunch break
1430-1600: What is driving TV content? Is it changing? Can it?
Moderator: Saurabh Tewari
Panel: Tripurari Sharan, Vivek Bahl, Sukesh Motwani, R.D.Tailang, Charudutt Acharya, Gul Khan
1600-1615: Tea/Coffee break
1615-1730: The new brigade of TV!
Moderator: Anuradha Tewari
Panel: Raghuvir Shekhavat, Mihir Bhuta, Amal Donvar, Swati Pande, Chinmay Mandlekar, Mrinal Jha
Day 3 : Wednesday, February 27
1000-1145: The empty playroom. Why such few children’s films?
Moderator: Chandita Mukherjee
Panel: Gulzar, Nila Madhab Panda, Preiti Mamgain, Farhan S., Anand Sivakumaran
1145-1200: Tea/Coffee break
1200-1330: The light through the fog: Implications of the amended Copyright Act for film and TV writers
Moderators: Rajesh Dubey & Anjum Rajabali
Panel: Souvik Biswas, Nikhil Krishnamurthy, Sai Gopal, Ameet Dutta
1330-1430: Lunch break
1430-1545: Writer-Producer Bhai-Bhai! The Minimum Basic Contract for film writers
On stage: Dharmesh Tiwari, Vipul Shah, RameshSippy, Nikhil Krishnamurthy, Anjum Rajabali
1545-1600: Tea/Coffee
1600-1730: The way forward! What FWA has for you in the next one year.
On Stage: The Executive Committee of FWA
Conducted by: Vinay Shukla & Kamlesh Pandey
1730-1745: Vote of thanks
– To know more about the topics and the speakers, click here and scroll down to “A MORE DETAILED EXPOSITION“.
– 850 screenwriters and writer-directors are expected to participate. This is the most important event for screenwriting in the country, and ought to impact the profession in a significant way.
– Confirmed participants include : Salim Khan, Javed Akhtar, Gulzar, Ashutosh Gowariker, Anurag Basu, Rakeysh Mehra, Govind Nihalani, Sriram Raghavan, Sudhir Mishra, Amit Khanna, Vipul Shah, Jabbar Patel, Vikramaditya Motwani, Bejoy Nambiar, Abbas Tyrewala, Amole Gupte, Habib Faisal, Navdeep Singh, Girish Kulkarni, Umesh Kulkarni, Lekh Tandon, Abhishek Sharma, Shridhar Raghavan, Kumararaja (Aranya Kandam), Rituparno Ghosh, Hariharan, Urmi Juvekar, Ishita Moitra, Manu Rishi Chadha, Leena Yadav, Prasoon Joshi, and others.
– Also, Tom Schulman (Oscar winner for ‘Dead Poets Society’) and Rebecca Kessinger (Asst. Executive Director of Writers’ Guild of America) will be there as guests since FWA and WGA are planning several collaborative initiatives.
(all info from press release)
– If you are completely clueless and confused whether to attend or not, click here and here to read our coverage of previous FWA conference.
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