== Film and Television Institute of India ==




India’s premier training institute for filmmaking,
cinematography, editing and soundrecording.
Founded in 1960, a decade after the
S.K. Patil Film Enquiry Committee’s
recommendations, as the Film Institute of
India. It was established in Pune using the
premises of the former [[Prabhat]] Film. Became
an autonomous organisation funded by the
Ministry of Information & Broadcasting in 1974,
simultaneously expanding to include a TV
section in the context of [[Doordarshan]]’s
development plans. The FTII’s history is most
closely associated with [[Ritwik Ghatak]] who
joined as Professor of Film and Vice-Principal
(1966-7) and formed several of the New Indian
Cinema pioneers, such as [[Kumar Shahani]],
[[Mani Kaul]], [[Adoor Gopalakrishnan]] et al., as
well as numerous key technicians, e.g.
cinematographer K.K. Mahajan. The FTII
produced two feature films, Raakhi Raakhi
([[Mahesh Kaul]], 1969) and Jai Jawan Jai
Makan ([[Vishram Bedekar]], 1971).
Film Finance Corporation see National Film
Development Corporation