SANKALAN - India's first ever script lab in India

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Hi !

2 years back we , at Baiscope Entertainment , promised you that this is a non profit organisation designed to provide everybody interested in films a Window of Opportunities to the World of Cinema.

We endeavoured , with our knowledge sharing workshops every month, to bring in experts to you to facilitate an organic interaction on various aspects of the business of Film Making.

And now we are here with our latest venture SANKALAN -India's first ever 'Ideas to Screen' Workshop presented by Mahindra ; conceived and designed by BAISCOPE ENTERTAINMENT

We feel that the time is right ...we need to revive the Art & the Craft of Story Telling

Mentored by 3 of India's premium writers Anurag Kashyap (Black Friday, No Smoking) ; Anjum Rajabali (Ghulam , The Legend of Bhagat Singh) and Sriram Raghavan ( Ek Haseena Thi , Johnny Gaddar), SANKALAN aims at sourcing and nurturing scripts over a period of 9 months.

The best of the scripts will be made into feature films by Mahindra .

Closing date for entries is 29 July 2008

E- mail sanka...@gmail.com
or call Anu pama Bose +91 9833255171
Rabia Chopra   +91 9820962559

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Why SANKALAN ? The time has come to revive the art & the craft of story telling. There are few writers, and even fewer story tellers.. Its time, we feel, for a Script Lab in India. An opportunity which will help nurture ideas and concepts for films into full blown scripts that eventually will see the light of the day. Scripts whi ch will be made into films. Hence - India’s first ever ‘Ideas to Screen’ Workshop SANKALAN. Contestants are invited to send in their concepts for feature films (live action or animation). 24 best entries will be selected for one to one pitching sessions with our panel comprising Mahindra, Baiscope Entertainment, writers and directors. .

Sankalan brings together 3 of the best talent in the industry - Anurag Kashyap , Anjum Rajaballi and Sriram Raghavan – to select and mentor these oven fresh ideas into f eature scripts over a period of 9 months. ‘ Supporting Sankalan is our way of saying that the script comes first, second, third… And we, at Mahindra, intend to give scripts and script-writers the importance they deserve in order to create really good, entertaining and meaningful cinema “ Andrey Purushottam, CEO, Mahindra media and entertainment business. “This is the first time that a Script Lab structure is being set up in India….. Baiscope Entertainment has also factored in stipends for the finalists so that they can concentrate only on developing their scripts and their expenses are taken care of. “ - Anurag Kashyap, Writer & Filmmaker Sankalan is a very highly needed relationship between producers on one hand expecting good scripts and raw talent on the other hand wanting  to develop their ideas into scripts which can be turned into films.  All they need is a little push and mentoring. This will provide them that. - Anjum Rajaballi , Writer " We keep saying that there is a tremendous lack of good scripts in our industry. Hopefully, this initiative will help attract new ideas and writers. There must be so many people all over the country who have stories to tell but perhaps dont know how e xactly to go about it. Thelma and Louise, Rocky, Blood Simple Salaam Bombay and Juno were scripts written by first time writers. So i'm very optimistic." - Sriram Raghavan , Writer & Filmmaker These scripts will then be further developed / produced by Mahindra media and entertainment business. The last date for submission of concepts is 19th July, 2008. For more information on Sankalan and its rules and regulations and eligibility criteria, please send us an email on sanka...@gmail.com

Objectives Give opportunity to writers to develop their projects with guidance from some of the most reputed writers - directors in the business. To provide a platform to Producers / Filmmakers to source out quality scripts mentored by the finest talent in the industry. Explore fresh ideas , concepts , narrative styles. Help evolve these concepts into workable projects. Enable the selected writers/filmmakers to pitch their developed projects to established production houses. About Baiscope 20entertainment Baiscope Entertainment is a NGO and the first of its kind of organisation in the Indian entertainment space. Conceived 2 years back with a vision of providing a ‘Window of Opportunities into the World of Cinema’,  the objective behind the organization is to create a platform whereby knowledge can be shared on all aspects of cinema and a way can be paved  for a defined indie filmmaking culture and movement in the country. Baiscope has been working towards setting up a knowledge sharing platform in the Indian film industry by conducting knowledge sharing workshop sessions with people from the different areas of the film fraternity. These workshops are attended by film buffs, film school=2 0students, people who are looking at making a career in film and people who have nothing to do with the film space. Guest speakers have included Anurag Kashyap (writing and filmmaking), Sudhir Misra (world film festivals itinerary), Christina Marouda (film festivals), Amitabh Shukla with Real Image (editing, VFX and Digital projection), Gitanjali Rao (animation), Mehool Parikh (film completion bonding), Ashutosh Kane (IPR), Sriram Raghavan (Film Noir) etc. Baiscope has conceptualized and is now organizing India's first ideas to screen initiative, a comprehensive script writing initiative to find and develop new talent in the film writing space. Our core team consists of people from various fields within the media and entertai nment space, all with a passion for cinema. For more information  call Anupama Bose: +91 9833255171 Rabia Chopra: +91 9820962559 Or e-mail to sanka...@gmail.com / universe...@gmail.com -----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

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