Ctrl Alt Cinema Masterclasses are part of our ongoing annual residential course. It will serve as an introduction to the art and craft of cinema. It will enable students to engage critically, aesthetically, and consciously with this contemporary art form. Students are drawn to the course because of the prospect of direct engagement with, and guidance from, the best in the industry.

Teachers come to us because they believe in our open and inclusive philosophy: we have a purpose, not a syllabus.

Sudeep Chatterjee - Cinematography

Director of photography, whose recent work speaks for itself, and includes films like Padmaavat, Bajirao Mastani, Chak de India, Dhoom 3, Guzarish, Dor, Iqbal & Chatushkon. His work is both popular and critically acclaimed. His awards include: two successive National Awards, the Filmfare Award and the IIFA Award.

Anjum Rajabali - Screenwriting

He is a veteran Indian screenwriter and teacher.

He has written films like Drohkaal (1994), Ghulam (1998), The Legend of Bhagat Singh (2002) and Raajneeti (2010). He is also known for his leadership and lobbying for the rights of Indian screenwriters, as a senior activist of the Screenwriters Association, India.  He is the Head of Screenwriting at Whistling Woods as well as the erstwhile Honorary Head of Screenplay Writing at the Film and Television Institute of India (FTII), a course that he founded in 2004. Apart from being a script consultant on several films, he also conducts workshops, seminars, and conferences on screenwriting.

Amitabh Chakraborty - Editing

Amitabha is an ace editor and a National Award Winning Film Maker. He is an alumnus of FTII, Pune who is respected for his Art-house cult films like Kaal Abhirati, Bishar Blues and Cosmic Sex which has been critically acclaimed in India as well as other countries. Amitabha has also conducted classes and workshops in the prime film schools of the country over more than two decades. He has been a revered mentor for several generations of film students.

Asheesh Pandya - Sound Design

Having graduated from the Film and Television Institute of India, Pune in 1988, Asheesh has been practicing the art and technique of Sound for films, theatre, music and audio projects. Has recorded, designed and mixed sound for several award winning Indian and international films and has travelled widely with some of the best names in broadcasting industry within and outside his country. Visiting faculty at various prestigious institutions in India, he loves to engage with young minds. His sound workshops, titled 'Happy New Ear', invariably draw full attendance by the students, who've often described them as life changing. A photographer, an occasional poet, a theatre actor, an amateur architect, Asheesh designed the sound scheme and studio for India World Radio and organized a festival of documentaries in his city Gurgaon.

SANDEEP CHATTERJEE - Direction

The National Award winning director of Sundar Jeebon (2002), Sandeep Chatterjee is a film-maker and teacher of cinema whose work spans nearly 25 years. In the late eighties, Sandeep is a distinguished alumnus of the Film and Television Institute of India (FTII), Pune, and now heads of the Department of Direction and Screenwriting.

SPECIAL MASTERCLASS | Ranbir Kaleka – Moving Image; New Media and Art

Ranbir Kaleka is a multi-media artist based in New Delhi. Kaleka was trained at College of Art, Chandigarh, and the Royal College of Art, London. Initially trained as a painter, his work has increasingly animated two-dimensional canvases within experimental film narrative sequences. Kaleka has been exhibited in a range of major international gallery and museums. In 2007, Dr. Felicitas Heimann-Jelinek, Senior Judaica curator, Spertus Museum Chicago commissioned Kaleka to make a Holocaust memorial. The site-specific video installation is titled "Consider", an installation consisting of two projections, a painting and an audio narrative of oral testimony from Auschwitz. In 2005 Kaleka showed at the 51st Venice Biennale in the exhibition ‘iCon - India Contemporary’ Co-curated by Julie Evans, Gordon Knox and Peter Nagy. In 2002 Kaleka exhibited at the Kunsthalle, Vienna, Austria in the exhibition Kapital and Karma: Recent Positions in Indian Art. Kaleka was awarded the National Award by the president of India at the 22nd National Exhibition of Art organised by the Lalit Kala Akademi in 1979 in Delhi. 

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