FilmCamp.TV Writer's Meet December 1, 2007

FilmCamp.TV announces ' From Script to Screen' - a collective discussion on writing for the screen.
What: FilmCamp.TV Screen Writers' meet
Where: Brew Ha Ha Cafe, Near Jyoti Nivas College, Koramangala
Date: Sunday, Dec 2nd 2007
Time: 11am to 2pm
Entry: Free (but you will have to pay for your own coffee! :))

"A good film begins and ends with a good script" - Ernest Lehman (Screen Writer - Winner, Honorary Academy Award)

Even after a 100 years of filmmaking, very few filmmakers in India today invest sufficient time and effort in developing, fine tuning and polishing a script. Writing for the screen is a very specialized craft where every word in the script is aimed at making a visual and emotional imprint on the reader . Every sentence is weighed by an entire team of people from actor, to cinematographer to music composer, each of whom will prepare and set out on separate journeys to reach the same destination - a film. Hence, a script's clarity, brevity and focus plays a huge role in its success.

FilmCamp.TV addresses this huge lacuna by conducting a writers meet where we will discuss sections of a script from a writer's standpoint. We will then view footage of the those sections of the film to understand how a film evolves from the written word to become a film.

Our first collective will discuss sections from two films, The Shawshank Redemption (writer - Frank Darabont) and Chinatown (writer - Robert Towne).

The collective is free and open to all. It will be moderated and conducted by Sanjay Nambiar, a feature film director, writer, cinematographer, editor and teacher of filmmaking. Sanjay's feature film Yanam won the Kerala Film Critics Special Jury Award for Yanam in 2004. Sanjay trained to make film in Chicago and Los Angeles for 12 years.

Official Website: http://www.filmcamp.tv