Venue: Preview Theatre

12th January

17-30 Inaugural Programme – Filmmaker Buddhadeb Dasgupta inaugurates the workshop

18:00
Class Danielsen, Director DOK Leipzig presents the festival and his favourite from DOK Leipzig – a polish film Chemo (58 mints) by Pawel Lozinski

13th January

17:30
Presentation Rudy Buttignol Knowledge Network, Canada

18:00
Wakai Makiko presents New Asian Currents, Yamagata International Documentary Film Festival, Japan.

Film screening (from NAC - 2009)

The Memory of Being Here -28 min
JAPAN / 2007 / Japanese
Director, Editing: Kawabe Ryota

January 14th

17:00 to 17:30, Preview Theater

Presentation and Documentary distribution in India by Gargi Sen,Magic Lantern

17:30 to 19:00, 90 min

Session title: Shooting in the HD Era

Speakers: Ryota Kotani & Hiroshi Tomita
After a brief introduction by NHK producer Ryota Kotani, cameraperson Hiroshi Tomita will share his expertise on what a cameraperson should keep in mind when filming in HD. There are two key things, which greatly open a cameraman’s pallet and canvas – the “tools” and “digital post-production”.

January 15th

17:00
Presentation/Felicitation Ally Derks, Director, IDF/JVF

17:30 to 18:30, 60 min, Preview Theater

Session title: Everything you want to know about HD

Speakers: Ryota Kotani & Hiroshi Tomita

Why go HD? What are the benefits of using HD? What are the demerits of going HD? NHK and SONY will answer all your questions that you have.

18:30 Onwards
Presentation - Ayesha Kagal, NDTV
Presentation ESODOC – Neelima Mathur

January 16th

17.00 to 17:30, 30 min,

Session title: The Asian Pitch – An HD Co-production Project for Asian Indie Directors

Speakers: Ong Hee-Yah
The Asian Pitch (TAP) is a three-year-old collaboration between NHK and MediaCorp to find original stories about Asia and nurture new Asian talent. It's a new wave of story–telling of Asian issues and concerns presenting Asian viewpoints, production styles and values to the international market. MediaCorp’s Ong Hee-Yah will show some of the past winners to explain how TAP works and what TAP is looking for.

17:30 to 18:30, 60 min,

Session title: Interview (Story-telling and HD)

Speakers: Ong Hee-Yah, Faiza Ahmad Khan

One of the winning proposals from the first TAP was “Superman of Malegaon” by Faiza Ahmad Khan. Although a first-time director, of course first-timer with HD as well, her award-winning film sold to many countries. Ong Hee-Yah will invite Faiza up to the stage to ask her about her experience in working with TAP and with HD.