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Walks, shoots and leaves
- Updated: February 9, 2017
Chanda Gauranga mounts a DSLR on a tripod to fire in Colaba. Pics/Bipin Kokate
A Two-Minute brief patrician Thoughts? unravels a universe where humans promulgate by telepathy in a birthright patrol of Kala Ghoda. Without uttering a singular dialogue, dual characters follow any other opposite a streets as a voiceover drives home a indicate that nobody speaks their mind these days. Uploaded on YouTube this week by Chanda Gauranga (aka Gaura), a representation film tells we what’s in store during a singular travel to be conducted by a 21-year-old this Sunday.
The initial meet-up organized during Gauranga’s home in Chembur
Free and open to all above 18 years (those underneath 18 need adult supervision), a first-of-its-kind beginning brings together budding eccentric filmmakers to fire dual to five-minute brief films during a four-hour travel from Chhatrapati Shivaji Terminus (CST) to a Gateway of India. “It’s desirous by a tradition of photo-walks. The thought is to build a network among filmmakers given it’s a team-based activity. Hopefully, with this walk, guest will assistance any other out,” shares a Chennai-born, Mumbai-bred mass media graduate.
A still from a short, Thoughts?
Enter a indie league
The eventuality has been organized by League of Indie Filmmakers (LIF), a height in Mumbai and Chennai that Gauranga launched in Dec 2016 for eccentric artistes associated to films to discuss, collaborate, shade their works and accept feedback from a community. “After graduation, when we went to Chennai to work on a web series, we realised it was formidable to put a organisation together due to miss of contacts. we returned to Mumbai and looked adult filmmaking meet-ups, though couldn’t find any. So, we launched LIF, and hosted a initial meet-up in my vital room,” recounts a filmmaker, who now hosts monthly meet-ups during QTube Café in Bandra.
Shoot during site
Starting during 6 am from CST railway station, a walk’s track offers pleasing settings — from markets to chronological fountains — that filmmakers can wobble into a script. “They can possibly travel with a organisation or stay behind during a sold mark to fire a scene,” he shares, adding, “They need to be prepared with a simple book on a thesis (narrative voiceover) and finish a fire within 4 hours.”
Depending on a audience (15 had purebred during a time of going to press), a guest will finish adult creation possibly a singular film together or sold ones. “In case, someone is proficient in a sold dialect (acting, camerawork or direction), we will organisation him or her adult with others. Since we’re sharpened on streets, there’s no need for complicated equipment. You can make a film with a DSLR or even a mobile phone,” he adds.
Post a shoot, a teams get a week’s time to revise their films, that will be screened during LIF’s subsequent meet-up after this month. “The meets are attended by casting companies, film selling folk and producers, who are mostly acid for talent to work with,” says a filmmaker. He skeleton to make a walks a monthly event with new themes and locations.
ON: Feb 12, 6 am to 10 am MEETING POINT CST railway station.
CALL: 8454868963
Register: bit.ly/2lmH7pY
Note: The films will be screened on Feb 26, 5 pm to 8 pm during QTube Cafe, SV Road, Bandra (W).