Academics

Awarded by: Tata Institute of Social Sciences – Deemed University under Section 3 of the UGC Act, 1956.

The objective of this 1-year, 2-semester course is to help create professional screenwriters. They need to develop writing skills that will help them write for a wide range of genres, for cinema as well as television, with some basic understanding of the craft of writing short films, corporate films, documentaries, and advertisement films. The deeper aim of the course is to help student-writers discover their own voice, free up their creativity, hone their intuition and impart to them the skills through which they are able to write their own original as well as others’ stories. The course makes students learn screenwriting by actual hands-on writing on a continuous basis with active mentoring from faculty, combined with a study of the widest range of cinema and narrative literature, via intensive theory classes, workshops, and interaction with many senior and experienced writers and writer-directors. Apart from this, the course offers other educational inputs from the field of culture and arts, especially from theatre, and from ancient narrative traditions like mythology and folk tales.