A two-day Workshop on Screenplay Writing by award winning filmmaker Prithvi Konnanur was held at the Institute premises on 22nd & 23rd April 2024. A software engineer turned filmmaker, Prithvi has on several occasions visited NICO and interacted with students and faculty.
With his experience in scripting, screenplay writing and filmmaking, Prithvi shared with students, the journey of a story turning into a script and then into screenplay. Touching upon topics like script vs screenplay, linear, non-linear and multilinear narratives and the importance of subplots, Prithvi gave examples from his own films, making it easy for students to understand.
The second day saw the screening of his Kannada film “Pinki Elli?” a social thriller touching upon the horrifying topic of child trafficking and using babies as props for begging. Winner of two awards in the New York Indian Film Festival, Pinki Elli has received critical acclaim for presenting a very real problem in a matter-of-fact manner, where every character is doing whatever he or she is, for reasons of their own, the real culprit being rapid urbanization and that very real divide between the haves and have nots. The screening was followed by an interactive session.\
With real examples, anecdotes and case studies the two-day workshop gave students wonderful insights into the world of filmmaking.
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