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The Indian television industry's first ever Scriptwriters
Workshop and Forum, Qalam 2001, will be held in Mumbai on
20-21 December.
Conceived by Indian Television Dot Com Pvt Ltd as the first
event of Qalam, a TV Scriptwriters forum, the workshop will
provide attendees an insight into the rudiments of scriptwriting,
character development, dialogue writing, the process of
getting scripts approved by TV producers and channels, and
the pitfalls in the business.
Endorsed by the Film Producers' Guild of India and backed
by Balaji Telefilms, Sony Entertainment Television, Star
India and B.A.G. Films, the two-day workshop will be unique
for the interactivity that has been built into it. Exercises
will be allotted to attendees on which they will be provided
feedback. For the first time, an eminent scriptwriter and
instructor from the Vancouver Film School (Canada), Joyce
Thierry is coming down to India to conduct the workshop
in co-ordination with leading Indian scriptwriters. Among
the eminent film and TV personalities who will address participants
are filmmaker Mahesh Bhatt, scriptwriters Dr Achala Nagar,
Anjana Sood, Ashwani Dhir, Ila Bedi Dutta, Mir Muneer, Rajesh
Joshi, Vipul D Shah, Raman Kumar, Vinta Nanda, former Sony
programming head Rekha Nigam and actor turned producer Soni
Razdan.
The workshop will end with a big bash and a special networking
session on the evening of 21 December. Indiantelevision.com
is aiming to present a select bunch of bright scriptwriters
who will emerge out of the two-day gruelling sessions to
the television industry, thus offering a unique opportunity
for budding writers to showcase their talents and meet people
who count within television -programming heads from TV channels,
executive producers, creative directors from production
houses and directors. The workshop will be held at Time
& Again, Banquet Hall in the northern Mumbai suburb of Andheri
(W).
Says Thierry: "I am so excited about the prospect of interacting
with Indian scriptwriters. I have been conducting workshops
in Canada for some years now and I am looking forward to
this experience."
Adds Star Plus creative director Deepak Segal: "Writing
is integral to our existence in television because that's
from where our content flows. If you want an engineer you
go to an engineering school, but where do you go if you
want a scriptwriter? We decided to back Qalam 2001 because
it is a first of its kind endeavour to develop writing talent
and needs encouragement."
Adds Balaji Telefilms CEO Sanjay Dosi: "The script is the
soul of any programme and it is a very creditable step by
indiantelevision.com to promote scriptwriters and help them
in honing their writing skills and it would go a long way
in promoting new talent. The industry needs such kind of
initiatives."
Information and television services company Indian Television
Dot Com Pvt Ltd has earlier held the Indian Telly Awards
2001, the first ever television industry awards held in
July this year. Says indiantelevision.com founder & CEO
Anil Wanvari: "There is a paucity of trained television
scriptwriters in India. This is a plaint I have often heard
from the TV industry. After the Indian Telly Awards 2001,
Qalam 2001 is an effort from our company to start what we
hope will become de rigueur in television - training."
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