Filmi stalwarts to host masterclasses

Panaji: Noted filmmakers Priyadarshan, Shyam Benegal and Rajkumar Hirani will interact with delegates at the 46th International Film Festival of India (Iffi) during different sessions on filmmaking. Starting this year, Iffi in association with the Oscar Academy, will organize masterclasses with eminent academy members from allied fields of filmmaking like sound design, costume design, film archive, film editing, etc.
Delegates will get an opportunity to interact with director, producer, and screenwriter, Priyadarshan, best known for his comedies. In a career spanning almost three decades, he has made over 80 films in Malayalam, Hindi, Tamil and Telugu, and has won the Best Feature Film National Award in 2007 for his Tamil film Kanchivaram.
Shyam Benegal, is a Dadasaheb Phalke award-winning director, who pioneered the new cinema movement in the 1970s with films like Ankur, Nishant, Manthan and Bhumika.
Director, screenwriter and film editor Rajkumar Hirani, is best known for the films, Munna Bhai MBBS (2003), Lage Raho Munnabhai (2006), 3 Idiots (2009) and PK (2014).
In association with the Oscar Academy, workshops will be held on film production by Edward Pressman, sound design by Mark Mangini, film archive and preservation by Milt Shefter, and will feature sessions by French costume designer Rosalie Varda, casting director Nancy Bishop, Indian cinematographer KK Senthil Kumar, and film editor Humphrey Dickson. Delegates can look forward to interactions with filmmakers like Aanand L Rai, director of Tanu Weds Manu and Vetrimaaran, five-time national award winning director.