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Some of the biggest names in the Malayalam film industry flocked together to set up a premier film academy in the south Indian state of Kerala with promises to offer world-class film education and to release the best students’ productions in theatres.
Age and language are no barriers to join Revathy Kalamandir Film Academy at Kinfra Film and Video Park in Thiruvananthapuram, which has kept its doors open for film enthusiasts from across India and abroad including the UAE, where there is a huge following for Indian movies.
The academy is the new venture of Revathy Kalamandir, a leading production house owned by heroine of yesteryears, Menaka Suresh, her husband G. Suresh Kumar and daughters Revathy and Keerthy Suresh, who is also an actress.
“We plan to expand the best diploma films of four students and they will be released as feature films under the banner of Revathy Kalamandir Productions,” Kumar, chairman of the academy said at a Press conference in Dubai on Sunday.
The academy offers two-year post graduate diploma course in direction and screenplay writing, cinematography, editing and sound recording and design for Rs6 lakh (less than Dh38,000). It also offers a one-year diploma course in acting for which graduation is not a pre-requisite.
Ace director Priyadarshan, who is an advisor to the academy, said the establishment offers the best combination of latest facilities, natural ambience, excellent faculty and industry exposure to film students. “I don’t think anything better than this can happen to any film student which I missed 32 years back,” he said, recalling how he and his contemporaries had to struggle to make it big in the film industry without the adequate professional educational background.
With movie making becoming digital and technology evolving every day, he pointed out that it is now a must for film makers to get trained in the art and craft of making films.
Veteran cinematographer Sunny Joseph is the director of the institute and will also be the head of the cinematography faculty. Renjith Sankar, former faculty member of the L.V. Prasad Film Academy, will head the editing faculty while noted Indian film maker Kumar Shahani is also being roped in to the team of teachers.
There will be entrance examination and interview to select 12 to 15 students for each discipline, the classes for which will start in August. Applications can be downloaded from www.rkfa.in, the academy’s website which was unveiled by national award-winning actor Suresh Gopi, another member of the academy’s advisory board, during the press conference.
Malayalam industry which churned out close to 190 films last year is one of the most prolific among the regional film industries in India, which, together with Bollywood, produce a major chunk of films in the world.
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