Priyatam Mudivarti

One of my men­tors who I worked with ear­lier just started an inde­pen­dent Film Pro­duc­tion Stu­dio in Vir­ginia. In the process of set­ting up a team, we shared our pas­sions of writ­ing and films and the like and I must say, it’s been a great ride in the last sev­eral months! Under­stand­ing film-making from the ground up, ele­ments of screen­writ­ing, going through pre pro­duc­tion, post pro­duc­tion plan­ning and all the usual stuff that indie films need to take care of brings you much more closer to the world cin­ema, that now when you see a movie, you see it in a two sets of lenses.

I got myself into read­ing a cou­ple of books in screen­writ­ing, looked at the edit­ing process of Final Cut Stu­dio & also did a few screen­writ­ing courses. What amazes me is that the entire process has become much more acces­si­ble if you have the right set of tools and ofcourse, a pas­sion­ate team to work with. There are even open­source tools, we’re plan­ning to use. For instance, Celtx is an out­stand­ing open­source tool for scriptwrit­ing. (works on mac)

It’s rare to find a com­pany where you have immense faith in the peo­ple — this is one of them. And I hope we are suc­cess­ful in bring­ing out the best.

There is a lot to talk about, but I’ll keep hush hush now. I’ll be work­ing on some of the ear­lier projects as a script writer and asst direc­tor. Our first project is called “The Depar­ture,” its a short film filmed in a sin­gle loca­tion and I really believe that it has a great story!

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