FTII students take part in BRICS project in MP

PUNE: Three students from the Film and Television Institute of India (FTII) along with film researchers from South Africa and Europe explored Maheshwar, Madhya Pradesh for BRICS project ‘Visual Practices and Methodologies Research, India Chapter 2018-19’ on the theme ‘Geographies of Gender’.

This was an unique four-day field visit to Maheshwar on the banks of the Narmada. FTII had recently entered into an international academic partnership with WITS School of Arts, University of Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa and Valand Academy, University of Gothenburg, Sweden for the BRICS project.

During the nine-day programme, four film academicians and practitioners from South Africa and Sweden are working closely with students and faculty of FTII selected for the project. The team comprising three Swedish academicians is led by Prof Jyoti Mistry from South Africa, with local mentoring by Prof Debkamal Ganguly from FTII’s Film Editing Department. The three 2016 batch students in this project are Ramandeep Malhotra from Sound Recording and Sound Design, Sanskriti Chattopadhyay of Direction and Ravi Raj Murmu of Editing.

“It is significant that for the first time, FTII is part of this prestigious BRICS project. This will open up possibilities of audio-visual expressions from the point of view of certain aesthetic and sociological research through engagement in actual field situations in India. The students chosen for the research project stand to gain from the international exposure that comes from working with the visiting South African and Swedish researchers,” said Bhupendra Kainthola, Director, FTII.