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National and international awards, and coveted selections at the most prestigious film festivals of the world are quite a regular feature of SRFTI’s achievement graph. Take a quick tour of the archive of accolades SRFTI has received so far.
Between The Rains
Direction: Samimitra Das
Camera: Siddhartha Diwan
Edit: Rashmima Dutta
Sound: Bina C. Amakkadu
The story is about the city, for that matter where people from all parts of the country come in search of work and embark on their own individual journeys. Priorities and choices we take as individuals under circumstances make us who we are. Honesty is an opportunity cost and our stakes get defined by it. All the characters are at different stages of breaking out from their compartmentalized identities that society inflicts on them. Some individuals stay inside it and revolt by being indifferent and ignoring the need to make a choice which affects the other person. They end up staying in their own little islands. While others, take a higher risk and put more at stake and have faith in a chance encounter and the belief that they will connect with each other.
Awards: Rashmima Dutta (Best Editing short fiction above 10 mins., NSFA)
Daak Nouka
Direction: Rohitaswa Mukherjee
Camera: Ramanuj Dutta
Edit: Avik Mondal
Sound: Nilotpal
“DAAK NOUKA” is a film which tells a fairytale about a small coastal village and the people living there. It has a linear documentation of their day to day monotonous life with the help of few subtle abstractions. With those subtle abstractions, every character of this fairytale gives birth of freedom to their internal wings of desire …and life goes on.
Awards: Rohitaswa Mukherjee (Best Script, NSFA)
Doyam
Direction: Shakeel Mohammad
Camera: Rukma Readdy
Edit: Atanu Mukherjee
Sound: Sudipto Mukhopadhyay
This story is about a boxer Hatim who like his failed father is on the verge of losing it all. He is in debt, he is losing his matches and has stopped communicating with his wife. He struggles with the guilt and the agony of having lost his father. Doyam in Urdu, means “second”. But is it second failure or second chance?
Awards: Sudipto Mukhopadhyay (Best Sound Design short fiction above 10 mins., NSFA)
Song Of The Butterflies
Direction: Torsha Banerjee
Camera: Rohit Singh Rana
Edit: Swapnita Roychoudhury
Sound: Anindit Roy
In a world bustling with lights and colors , a small blind school, situated in a remote village of Eastern India, is striving with a different spasm for life. It’s a story of an organic relationship between a space and a few blind characters. Adoori, a small ten year old girl shows her boxes full of earrings and bangles , her new clothes… and lives with the belief that ‘ I am beautiful’, whereas Hasibullah, a 7 year old boy imitates the sounds arounds him and connects the world with his own symphony. Yasin , Tabassum , Shumon , Gautam… Each character comes with a unique story to tell and flows with the rapturous mood of the film. This documentary is a glimpse of the conversations, rolling between a few unlit eyes and an unknown space.
Awards: Torsha Banerjee (Jury Special Mention, NSFA)
Birds Of Passage
Direction : Ashim Paul
Camera : Anil Pingua
Edit: Shivanshu Pathak
Sound : Sulagno Banerjee
Both of them were alienated before they meet up. They spoke to each other. They shared their personal memories. Hesitation became the major factor for creating distance between them. However, both of them overpowered their own emotions. Gradually, they became good friends. Was it really supposed to happen? Where has their feminine ego gone?
Awards: Anil Pingua (Best Student Cinematographer Award Of The Year, Kodak)
Panchabhuta
Direction: Mohan Kumar Valasala
Camera: Sunny Lahiri
Edit: Charitra Gupt Raj
Sound: Iman Chakraborty
The permanence of elements defines the basic character of any space. A space may have a tendency towards being incoherent for the average human perception. In contrast, for everyday inhabitants the seemingly uninhabitable space becomes a part of their accustomed daily life. The presence of elements coupled with the routine of the inhabitants from the crux of ‘Panchabhuta’.
Awards: Mohan Kumar Valasala (Jury Special Mention)
Sunny Lahiri (Navroz Contractor Award for Best Cinematography)
Best Film (Nonfiction), National Students’ Film Award
Charitra Gupt Raj (Best Editing (Nonfiction), NSFA)
Iman Chakraborty (Best Sound Design (Nonfiction), NSFA)
Sita Haran Aur Anya Kahaniyan
Direction: Anusha Nandakumar
Camera: Nikhil Arolkar
Edit: Diksha Sharma
Sound: Sujoy Das
Music: Satyaki
This is a short experimental film of a storyteller and his world of stories. When his daughter dies, he loses his motivation to tell his stories and the character in his stories start talking over. He lives in an illusionary world where he is unable to distinguish between his characters anymore and get stuck between reality and fiction.
Awards: Anusha Nandakumar (Best Music Video, I D S F F, Kerala)
Thug Beram
Direction: Venkat S Amudhan
Camera: Tarun K. Rakeshiya
Edit: Swapnita Roy Choudhury
Sound: Vineet Vashistha
Life is programmed from events happening around one’s surroundings where nothing is right or wrong but things just move on relentlessly. Firoz’s life revolves around his work in the café. It is in this café that an event forms a part of Firoz. What happens in the end and who is at the receiving end is not as important as the impact it creates on Firoz as he witnesses life around him ‘lived’, which is what ‘Thug Beram’ is about.
Awards: Venkat S Amudhan (Sonje Award 16th Busan International Film Festival)
Best Film Short fiction upto 10 mins. National Students’ Film Award
Kusum
Dir: Shumona Banerjee
Camera: Raghavendra Matam
Edit: Manas Mittal
Sound: Avik Chatterjee
Can hope be found in the most unusual places among the most unlikely characters? A young women transvestite prostitute, Kusum, locked up in her room, gears up for a regular night like any other. Just then enters Purab, an out of job English literature teachersuffering from Tourettesyndrome and obsessive compulsive behavior, without a clue of the local language. He spent his meager savings to spend one night with a girl and finds himself stuck with a boy! Both can’t understnd what the other is saying. All hell breaks loose! Will these two people, manage a connection? Perhaps like a flower budbursting through a crack in the wall, an unexpected begining will see them through.
Awards: Shumona Banerjee
The Boxing Ladies
Direction: Anusha Nandakumar
Camera: Rahul Deep Balchandran
Edit: Diksha Sharma
Sound: Sujoy Das
Zainab, Bushra, and Sughra are sisters. They are muslim and they are national level boxers. ‘The Boxing Ladies’ is a story of this incredible family of women, of their strong will to survive in the society and make a mark.
Awards: Anusha Nandakumar (Rajat Kamal, Best film on Sports, 58th National Film
Germ
Direction: Snehal Nair
Camera: Sayak Bhattacharya
Edit: Tinni Mitra
Sound: Ayan Bhattacharya
This is a story of a boy who is afflicted by cancer and makes an album of black and white passport picture that he found as a child. His brother is a filmmaker and he sees this book. Inspired after watching the pictures, he begins to collect pictures of the metropolis where they live, observing the changing horizon of the city.
Awards: Snehal Nair (Swarna Kamal, best Non Feature Film in the 58th National Film Award)
Tinni Mitra (Best Editor, Non Feature film, 58th National Film Award 2010)
Sayak Bhattacharya (Best cinematography, Munich International Film Festival of Film Schools)
Snehal Nair (Best experimental film, 13th International Student Film Festival,Tel-Aviv)
Pocha Apple
Direction: Srinath Ravulapalli
Camera: Arindam Bhattacharyya
Edit: Apratim Chakraborty
Sound: Nairit Dey
A mentally challenged middle-aged woman living on the Kolkata streets meets another man in a similar condition on a rainy night. After the initial refusals from the women, stubborn and intense, the man succeeds in winning the woman’s company and friendship. Soon the sociopolitical developments in the city affects their relationship and lead to their separation. Alone and impassionate, the woman moves to deserted fields in the outskirts and find solace in the loneliness. The man returns and searches for the woman. When he eventually meets her, he realizes that things are not same, which leads to a tragic end
Awards: R.Srinath (Best Film, Bonjour India Festival)
First prize (Joint winner); Best Diploma Film at the Campus France Film School
Competition of Diploma Films
My Armenian Neighborhood
Direction: Samimitra Das
Camera: K Appalaswamy
Edit: Reshmima Dutta
Sound: Avik Chatterjee
The documentary takes a look at the Armenian community of Kolkata, who originally had arrived much before the city had its name. They are credited with having built the oldest building of the city.
Awards: K.Apalla Swamy (Best cinematographer 3rd I D S F F, Kerala)
Lal Juto
Direction: Shweta Merchant
Camera: Harindar Singh
Edit: Saikat Sekhar Roy
Sound: Sreemanti D Sharma
Shweta Merchant was at her wit’s end when her chosen child actor came down with fever on the day of the shoot. It was monsoon and ‘all the girl I saw thereafter began showing similar symptoms,’ says Merchant. And then, by a happy chance, she found’ the sweetest girl who fitted so well in the film’ just fifteen minutes before call time. Since Merchant’s Lal Juto is about the first stirrings of romance in a fifteen-year-old boy’s heart for his otherwise annoying fourteen-year-old neighbor, the serendipitous moment of discovering the child actor fell in line with the theme of the story.
Awards: Sweta Marchent (Best creative idea, 11th Shanghai International Film Festival.)
Khoj
Direction: Tridib Poddar
Camera: Parixit Warrier
Edit: Soumendu Bhattacharjee
Sound: Partha Pratim Barman
A man goes looking for his friend who disappeared ten years ago. Only his mother survives alone in the house. In this search our protagonist travels through a spectrum of life – he meets people, he meets mountains, rivers. What exactly happens with his psyche is what we experience through the visual story telling.
Awards: Tridib Poddar (IDPA Award (Best first film) /MIFF)
Tridib Poddar (Best Director BFJ Award)
Shundar Jeebon
Direction: SandipChatterjee
Camera: Mrinmoy Nandi
Edit: Malay Laha
Sound: Arijit Pal
This is the story of a writer who lived in Kolkata. He was married. One day his wife deserted him. Now he is suffering from a writer’s block, unable to write anything. He stays away from the city in an old house in the country, with an elderly woman… a widow. The incessant mating calls of the cuckoo disturbs him. He cannot stand the sweetness of it’s tone. On one such afternoon, an old friend Shanti comes looking for him. Shanti narrates a kind of ideal love that he happened to witness between a young couple whom they knew. The course of this discussion reveals that Shanti has lost his wife just the day before. Shanti did not bother to go and attend her funeral. Is he sad? Sundar Jeebon is the sour taste of beauty.
Awards: Sandip Chatterjee (Best Short Fiction, National Award,2003)
Abhiman Band Party
Direction: Siladitya Sanyal
Camera: Anirudh Garbyal
Edit: Sudip K. Chatterjee
Sound: Tapan Bhattacharjee
Tapas clings to a tacky band party business, acquired from his late father. Tapas hates Monoj (his mother’s lover). Inspite of mother’s dislike towards dogs, Tapas decides to bring home an Alsatian puppy. He confides in Shanti (sister in law) and borrows some money from her to buy the puppy. His visit to Decampo’s house to get the puppy leaves him in a sense of trepidation. Back home, the sudden discovery of the physical proximity between mother and Monoj exacerbates him. Frustrated he flings himself back to his only recluse – Shanti. An unexpected chain of coincidences truncates the futile exuberance to master fate. Tapas lies to Shanti about the accident her husband meets. And both of them are bound by passion and desire. Mother and Monoj decide to marry the next morning at Kalighat on the day of Rashlila. A celebration follows… Tapas shows his contempt… The eternal questions of love, passion and desire get readdressed through the film.
Awards: Siladitya Sanyal (Best Short Film BFJ Award)
The Egotic World
Direction: Vipin Vijay
Camera: Millind Nagamule
Edit: Pranom Dutta Majumdar
Sound: Sayandeb Mukherjee
The film is inspired by the scriptural text of ‘ Yoga Vasistham’ which explains the unfolding mystery of the life of Lord Rama. The film depicts the tale of a boy entrapped inside a ‘zone’ from which he escapes temporarily only to return and find himself elevated from the worldly pleasures. He rejects liberation and ‘merges’ into the ‘black’ bearing the sorrow of the future.
Awards: Milind Nagamule (Best Student Film in Kodak Students Festival (India))
Bhor
Direction: Ritubarna Chudgar
Camera: Sampad Roy
Edit: Kallol Gangopadhyay
Sound: Tapas K. Nayak
Brother and sister live in a unfriendly city. They suffer from abject poverty. In the day-to-day existence, they are constantly insulted and humiliated. Poor and unhappy, they try to recall the days when they were glad and contended. This takes them to the old house they once lived, in the suburbs. Apart from an old man living, the house is deserted. The old man allows them to spend a night there. They went there to feel happy amidst their memories, but the past has something else in store.
Awards: Ritubarna Chudgar (Best Short Fiction Film, National Film Award, 2001)
Meena Jha
Direction: Anjalika Sharma
Camera: Amal Neerad C.R
Edit: Basudev Chakraborty
Sound: Mahua Maitra
The film is about two girls. Meena and Ayesha are teenagers who study in a convent school. They are grown together even though their dreams, realities and social setup are totally different from each other. Calcutta is the backdrop of this unlikely relationship. The girl struggle to live out the first adult relationship of their lives. Ayesha is easily bored and looks for constant stimulation. She likes to live in a dream world, nightmares even. In Meena, she finds a listener one who believes all her tales blindly, one who dreams and lives through her stories. The film is a collage of shared experiences, memories, dreams and realities, held together by an un-predictable non-linear structure
Awards: Anjalika Sharma (Best Debut Film of the Director, National Film Award, 2001)
Amal Neerad C. R. (Special Mention for 48th National Film Awards)
The library of Satyajit Ray Film & Television Institute, Kolkata was set up in 1997. The library has been primarily designed to meet the requirements of the Institute’s academic programme . It has a formidable collection of books and periodicals on cinema. Sociology, arts, history and critical studies along with specialized titles dealing with the technology of cinema.
At present, the library has a great collection of DVDs ranging from classics to experimental.
LIBRAY HOURS
Library shall remain open on all the days except the National and Gazetted holidays & 2nd Saturday of each month and shall observe the time schedule as given hereunder for users:
Monday to Sunday – 9.00 AM – 8.00 PM
RESOURCES
A need-based collection of knowledge resources is being developed in lines with the objectives and activities of the Institute in mind. Resources includes
Type of document |
Total no. (approx) |
Remarks |
Books |
6130 |
All the information regarding the holding of the library(including descriptive cataloguing) is available in the existing KOHA database of the Library |
Bound Journal and Technical Manual |
1101 |
|
DVD |
926 |
|
ACD |
578 |
|
VCD |
280 |
|
LD |
37 |
|
VHS cassettes |
632 |
|
CDs accompanying with books |
113 |
|
CDs accompanying with journals |
114 |
|
Effects CDs |
20+40+40 |
Updated on 01.12.2012 |
Journal |
41 |
|
Daily newspapers |
11 |
BOOKS
The book collection of the library consists of books, back-volumes of periodicals, festival proceedings etc. Most of them are kept on open shelves directly accessible to the users, while some are preserved in closed stacks and made available only on request.
These books are kept in different stacks. There are two sections – one is Reference Section and another one is Lending Section. These books are arranged by decimal numbers. Each book is assigned a number from Dewey Decimal Classification (DDC) system, widely followed in many libraries across globe. This number represents the subject of the book. On the shelves, the books are then arranged according to the numbers which are indicated on the spine of the books. Please consult the computerized catalog to find the availability and location of a book.
Location of Books by subject
Books bearing class number from 001 to 999 are housed at different Stacks in the ground floor of the library.
Display of New Books
In different intervals, new books that were added to our stock, are displayed in the New arrival section. A list of such new additions is displayed on the notice board of the library as well as on this website. The books remain on display for one week after which those can be borrowed.
Reference Books Collection
Reference collection including Encyclopedias, Dictionaries, Directories and Handbooks, etc. and some basic books of general nature are available on open shelves in the Ground floor Reading Hall. These are meant for consultation within the Reading Room and must not be taken out by the students. Only faculty members may borrow the books from Reference Section.
Lending Books Collection
Lending collection including textbooks, film scripts, handbooks fictions, Bengali and Hindi language books etc. and some basic books of general nature are available on open shelves in the Ground floor Reading Hall. Students as well as faculty members may borrow the books from Lending Section.
CD/DVD accompanying books and journals
Many books and journals in our collection are accompanied by learning materials in CD/DVD format. Those accompanying materials are kept separately. The book catalog will indicate whether a book has an accompanying material. To borrow those materials, please contact Users’ Assistance Desk.
Journals, Newspapers, and Magazines
The library subscribes to a large number of journals, magazines and newspapers. All current issues of journals, newspapers, and magazines are displayed in the Reading Hall in the ground floor.
Back volumes of journals, in bound condition, are housed in first floor of the library.
AUDIO-VISUAL AND MULTIMEDIA RESOURCES
The library has a large collection of databases of audio-visual materials. This collection contains Students diploma films and projects, Classics, Short films, Documentaries and Feature films. Please consult Users’ Assistance Desk for the details.
SERVICE
PHOTOCOPY SERVICE DESK
Photocopy Service Desk (ground floor) of the library is available from 10 AM to 5-30 PM on all working days. Following charges are applicable for different users groups:
Category | Charges | Remarks |
Students, faculty members, officers, and staff of the institute | 50 paisa per exposure | Please fill up the Photocopy requisition form, in according to the instructions, and submit the same to the Photocopy Service Desk. Forms are also available at the Photocopy Service Desk.(photocopy service is restricted to 300 impressions per month/student) |
Official job of the institute | Fill up the Requisition slip in prescribed format will be sent to the library through H.O.D. for free of cost | |
External members | Re1/- per exposure |
ONLINE PUBLIC ACCESS CATALOGUE
An OPAC (Online Public Access Catalog) is an online bibliography of a library collection that is available to the public. Through the OPAC interface users can find the items (Books, & Audio Visual Materials) available in the library and
INSTITUTIONAL MEMBERSHIP
SRFTI Kolkata has institutional membership with British Council Library located in the city.
GUIDELINES & RULES
GENERAL RULES
BORROWING FROM THE LIBRARY
Entitlement | Duration of borrowing |
a) 02 books from Lending Section | a)14 days (one time renewal for another 14 days) |
b)02 CD accompanying with books / journals | b)14 days |
c)1 bound journal and 1 technical manual OR 02 back issue of journal | c) 14 days |
d) 04 Sound Effects CD & 1 ACD | d) 04 days |
Type of materials | isuse for | period of borrowing |
04 dvds 02 vcds 02 vhs cassettes | Hostel for over night one audio-visual material for one student only | audio-visual materials within 10 am ( 02PM on SUNDAY ) of the next day failing which library will not issue any DVD or audio-visual materials to his / her for the next 15 days |
Category | Entitlement | Duration of borrowing | |
Faculty member & Registrar, SR M (IT & MR) | a) 05 books from Reference & Lending Section | a)30 days | |
b) 03audio-visual materials | b) 04 days | ||
c) 2 bound journal & 2 back issue of journal | c) 30 days | ||
Administrative Staff | Officers | 04 books | 14 days |
Other Staff | 02 books | 07 days | |
01 VCD or 01 ACD per head twice a week |
OVERDUE & FINES
Type of materials | Penalty for late return | Penalty for loss of materials |
Books and audio-visual materials from general stock | Re1/- per day per book after the due date – For members other than studentsRs 2/- per day per audio-visual material – For members other than studentsFifty paisa per day upto 07 days and 8th day onward Re1/- per day – For studentsRe1/- per day per VCD, VHS and Re1/- per ACD (four days after issue) and Rs2/- per day per DVD – For student | As decided by the competent authority |
Welcome to SRFTI, where creative energies fuse with cinematic craft to transform ideas into life!
Here, there is no difference between loving what you do and doing what you love.
The sprawling 40 acre idyllic green film school campus, one of the largest in the world, is a creative space that offers an immensely immersive and intensive experience with facilities of international standards.
It is a space that provokes, inspires and prepares you to undertake your audio-visual odyssey with confidence and conviction.
Located in Kolkata and named after the legendary maestro Satyajit Ray, the Satyajit Ray Film & Television Institute was the second national centre of cinema education established in 1995 by The Government of India as an autonomous academic institution under the Ministry of Information and Broadcasting. The Institute was subsequently registered under the West Bengal Societies Registration Act, 1961.
The first session began on September 1, 1996. Presently the Institute conducts three years postgraduate programme in cinema in six specializations of film making; Direction and screen play writing, Editing, Cinematography, Sound Recording and Design, Producing for Film & Television , Animation Cinema and Two years postgraduate programme in Electronics and Digital Media in six specializations; Electronic and Digital Media Management, Writing for Electronic and Digital Media, Direction & Producing for Electronic and Digital Media, Cinematography for Electronic and Digital Media, Editing for Electronic and Digital Media & Sound for Electronic and Digital Media.
The Institute also conducts short courses on film appreciation, acting, digital editing and so on. The Institute has achieved significant success within its short period of existence. This has led to an attempt towards a new paradigm of specialized practices and new courses. Our alumni have been winning accolades regularly through their masterly innovations. They have been trend-setters, changing the course of film-making through a fusion of thought, craft and entrepreneurial abilities. By proving their mettle as dedicated professionals, they have increased the acceptability of current students in the complex and competitive world of cinema.
Office of the Director
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1 | Shri. Himansu Sekhar Khatua | 04.08.2022 | |||||||||||
2 | Shri. Samiran Datta Additional Charge |
04.02.2022 | |||||||||||
3 | Shri. Debasish Ghoshal Additional Charge |
01.06.2021 | |||||||||||
4 | Shri. Amaresh Chakrabarti Additional Charge |
05.02.2020 | |||||||||||
5 | Dr. Debamitra Mitra | 27.01.2017 | |||||||||||
5 | Shri Amaresh Chakrabarti Additional Charge |
03.06.2016 | |||||||||||
7 | Shri Debanjan Chakrabarti Additional Charge |
24.03.2016 | |||||||||||
8 | Shri Sanjaya Pattanayak | 27.03.2012 | |||||||||||
9 | Shri Shankar Mohan Additional Charge |
19.06.2010 | |||||||||||
10 | Shri Swapan Mullick | 19.06.2006 | |||||||||||
11 | Shri Abhay Shrivastava | 03.01.2005 | |||||||||||
12 | Shri Jatin Sarkar | 24.12.2001 | |||||||||||
13 | Dr. Debasish Majumdar | 29.08.1997 |
Named after the legendary film maestro Satyajit Ray, the Institute has emerged as a national centre of excellence which offers a post-graduate programme in Cinematic studies.
SRFTI has succeeded in articulating and disseminating classical and contemporary theories of praxis for creative minds to leap into the world of professional practice – be it mainstream, parallel, art house, experimental or non-fiction narratives.The Institute has crossed many mile stones towards a new paradigm of the art and craft of Film making……
Our alumni have been winning accolades regularly through their mastery over film-making. They have been trendsetters, changing the course of filmmaking through the fusion of thought, craft and entrepreneurial abilities. By proving their mettle as dedicated professionals, they have increased the acceptability of current students in the complex and competitive world of filmmaking.
With the state of the art facility, SRFTI provides a creative ambience to inspire the budding film makers with an innovative language of artistic expression.
And their contribution builds the blocks for better Cinema……
SRFTI is a member of CILECT, the international Association of Film and Television Schools (Centre International de Liaison des Ecoles de Cinéma et de Télévision).
As one of the largest stand-alone film school campuses in the world SRFTI is situated on the eastern fringe of the city of Kolkata.The extra-ordinarily sprawling green campus offers an array of perfect setting for the audio-visually driven minds.
The lakes, the ponds,the lush green velvety spread…… provide an idyllic creative space, serene and sequestered, to lend euphonies of creative spark.
SRFTI enjoys the very special privilege of holding the Convocation on 2nd May which happens to be the legendary maestro Satyajit Ray’s birthday.
This year, 2013, Guest of Honour Padmashree Ratan Thiyam graced the occasion with his thought provoking convocation address. This occasion was well attended by the faculty members, present and ex-students, staff members of SRFTI and parents of students who received their certificates. The convocation was cheerfully rounded off with a dinner for the guests and students.
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