NFDC India announces six selected projects of its first Children's Screenwriter's Lab introduced this year
Mumbai: National Film Development Corporation (NFDC) India is pleased to announce the six projects selected for its first ever Children’s Screenwriters’ Lab introduced this year. Mieke de Jong, Rasmus Horskjær and Anna Tamara Bos, known internationally for their extensive work in children’s films, will mentor the projects.
The Six Projects are:
A Lottery Ticket - Sagarika Banik
Kabuliwala - Soumitra Ranade
The Adventures of Kaka and Kiki - Shreyas Govindarajan Thathachari
The Girl with the Gents Bicycle - Ravi S. Alok
The Mahout - Sharmila Sankar
The Pink Walls of My School - Girish Jotwani
The selection consists of narratives and perspectives that would engage young audiences.
The participants will also get a chance to pitch their scripts to producers and investors in a specially designed session during Film Bazaar 2015.
Nina Lath Gupta, the Managing Director of NFDC India who introduced Children Screenwriters' Lab this year says, "For a country where a very substantial percentage of our population are children, we have a huge paucity of sufficient content for kids in the feature film space. Given NFDC's focus on initiating development work in areas where there is a perceived vacuum, it was only natural for the institution to take up the issue of developing production worthy content for children's films."
