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		The FTII's television wing was created in the 1970s with the expressly stated purpose of conducting in-service training courses for Doordarshan personnel, and it had little connection with the regular courses of study, being tailored to DD's specific requirements.
		The FTII can't be shut down, since everyone on the staff, from the watchman and sweepers to the office clerks and teaching faculty are permanent government employees who cannot simply be asked to pack up and leave.
		The FTII's present Director has already declared his plans to alter the "structure and functioning" of the Institute, which include proposals to conduct short-term training courses and to invite commercial film-makers to shoot on campus with the assistance of FTII students.
	www.upperstall.com /ftii.html (1629 words)

	FIAF
		Other details of the joint report compiled by NFAI, FTII and the civil construction wing (CCW) of All India Radio, who were collectively responsible for the maintenance of the air-conditioned film storage vault for nitrate-based films, were not revealed to the press.
		The FTII premises, where employees and students remained in a state of shock, wore a pall of gloom.
		FTII director Prem Matiyani revealed the police and fire brigade experts were still investigating the cause of the accident.
	www.fiafnet.org /es/news/shownews.cfm?id=41 (1300 words)

	Indiainfo.com -> News -> India -> Film institute students protest new syllabus (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-20)
		Further, first year students are not guaranteed admission to the next two years as the number of seats are reduced from 80 students in the first to 48 in the second year and to 38 in the final year.
		The idea, according to FTII director Mohan Agashe, is that people can do a year-long course, go out to work in the industry and then come back to take the other two years if interested.
		A second objection is that the FTII is the only institute of its kind which imparts professional training in filmmaking and this training should be imparted in a cohesive manner.
	newsarchives.indiainfo.com /2000/08/18/18institute2.html (704 words)

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		The Film and Television Institute of India (FTII), where frequent protests led to the scrapping of an acting course in the past, is witnessing a fresh protest over administrative action taken against three students.
		FTII students then threatened to go on strike and in a meeting convened by the director, an NRI student, who is studying cinematography, insulted Sharan in full public view on December 12, they said.
		The FTII subsequently revoked the expulsion and allowed the students to continue their course on the condition that they completed their current and pending work on schedule, while the NRI student was expelled by Sharan on December 13.
	www.business-standard.com /general/storypage_test.php?&autono=268681 (403 words)

	FILM AND TELEVISION INSTITUTES OF INDIA
		The alumni of the FTII have penetrated all corners of the Indian film and television industry and have excelled in all its fields.
		The FTII is an autonomous body under the Ministry of Information and Broadcasting of the Government of Indi.a.
		Situated in Pune on a gently inclined shoulder of one of the many hillocks that mark the frontier between the Western Ghats and the beginning of the vast plateau of the Deccan, the FTII campus is a melange of old and new buildings tucked away in a green expanse of 21 acres.
	mib.nic.in /informationb/AUTONOMUS/FTII.htm (254 words)

	Introduction - FTII
		The alumni of the FTII have penetrated all corners of the Indian film and television industry and have excelled in all its fields.
		The FTII is an autonomous body under the Ministry of Information and Broadcasting of the Government of India.
		Situated in Pune on a gently inclined shoulder of one of the many hillocks that mark the frontier between the Western Ghats and the beginning of the vast plateau of the Deccan, the FTII campus is a melange of old and new buildings tucked away in a green expanse of 21 acres.
	www.ftiindia.com /html/introduction.htm (372 words)

	Hiring Facilities to Outside Producers - FTII
		For items where the equipment is to be carried out of the FTII premises, the actual time of its utilization would be calculated, from the time it leaves the premises till the time it is returned.
		The equipment, while being taken out of the FTII premises, will always be accompanied by the operating crew and charges for their services will be paid by the hiring agency.
		Ex-students of FTII will be given 50 % concession for hiring equipment and facilities (except personnel) if he/she is the producer of the film.
	www.ftiindia.com /html/hiring_terms.htm (494 words)

	FTII revives acting course after 26 yrs (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-20)
		The sprawling campus of FTII was buzz with activity when 20 candidates from various parts of the country made their entry into the institute with dreams in their eyes.
		While Shah, an FTII alumnus, has redesigned the acting course, Baswani is the coordinator.
		The acting course, which has 20 seats, will be of two years' duration while the script-writing course, having 12 seats, is of one-year duration.
	web.mid-day.com /news/nation/2004/july/87617.htm (250 words)

	The Indian Express: National Network: Full story (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-20)
		Purcell acclaims FTII as a ‘‘global institution which should be in the first rank of national film schools.
		The facilities are second to none and the diversity of expertise among staff is impressive...but FTII is slowing down, almost grinding to a halt.
		Purcell draws a link between FTII’s condition and ‘‘a microcosm of the UK print and TV industry of the late 1970s which was paralysed by conservative trade unions refusing to accept the new world of technology and competition’’.
	www.indianexpress.com /ie20010607/nat7.shtml (522 words)

	FTII To Open New Courses, Admit Foreign Students (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-20)
		PUNE, MARCH 7: Film and Television Institute of India (FTII) is attempting to put its troubled past behind and infuse new life into the institution with a slew of new courses, opening its doors to foreign students, launching FM radio and a television channel and utilising its spare technical capacity to outside producers.
		FTII will start four new one year TV courses in addition to the established three year diploma course and these will be self-funded courses.
		FTII is also receiving $20,000 from the UNESCO for developmental activities which Mr Matiyani said would be used for updating the institute’s equipment.
	www.financialexpress.com /fe_full_story.php?content_id=29596 (418 words)

	FTII-Film and television institute of india,Pune (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-20)
		The FTII was established by the Government of India in the Ministry of Information and Broadcasting in 1960 on the recommendation of the Film Enquiry Committee for imparting training in the art and techniques of film making.
		The FTII became a society in October under the Registration of Societies Act of 1860, fully aided by the Government of India, Ministry of Information and Broadcasting.
		The FTII is the one of the five prestigious film schools left around the world who teach a proper film course funded by the Government.
	www.virtualpune.com /html/channel/entertain/MOVIE/HTML/ftti.shtml (1022 words)

	Without a script
		Students do gather around the "wisdom tree", the FTII's best-known landmark, but the discussions are more about their next letter of protest to the Director than about the films of the masters.
		On the FTII campus, with the figure of a dancer covered in fl plastic following a dispute between the management, which wants to remove it, and the students who demand that it be retained.
		Echoing this view, Bhatt says: "I found the FTII to be shackled to a mindset that was outdated and worn out." Going one step further, he adds: "The FTII was created on the presumption that mainstream cinema was not good enough.
	www.hinduonnet.com /fline/fl1809/18090820.htm (2628 words)

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		Counters Agashe: ‘‘The FTII is not capable of utilising given funds in the allotted period.’’ From the IXth plan provision of Rs 27 crore, only Rs 15 crore was utilised.
		The FTII is today settling down to a relatively peaceful existence after a turbulent interlude.
		“FTII’s policy-makers and the IandB ministry continue to be vague and evasive about the fundamental question — the kind of filmmakers they want to create,’’ he says.
	www.indianexpress.com /print.php?content_id=1228 (1852 words)

	Plea To Name FTII After Shantaram : News & Happenings : Movies.123India.com
		A proposal to name the Film and Television Institute of India (FTII), Pune after V. Shantaram was forwarded to I & B minister Arun Jaitley by Shantaram’s son, Kiran Shantaram, recently when the minister was in Bombay.
		Therefore, it was in the fitness of things that the FTII should be named after him to perpetuate his memory.
		As the FTII is situated at a place where Prabhat Film Company earlier was, it will be in the fitness of things that it is named after V. Shantaram, just as the film institute in Calcutta has been named after Satyajit Ray.
	movies.123india.com /contemporary/bollywoodnews/archives/con_new_40.html (183 words)

	Community Radio Network - [India] FTII goes radio ga ga
		One unique aspect of Radio FTII will be that residents of areas that will be covered by it will have a chance to an take active part in future programmes.
		Of course FTII’s talent pool will be a major contributor to the programmes, which will include, say, interviews of FTII alumni, many of whom are today internationally acclaimed film professionals.
		FTII’s FM station will have a dedicated studio in the premises, the transmitter for which is expected to be ready by the end of the year.
	www.communityradionetwork.org /news_item.2005-08-19.9950363042 (391 words)

	Indian film and television students protest over fee hikes and course structure
		The FTII “restructure” occurs amid escalating attacks on freedom of artistic expression and other democratic rights by the Hindu fundamentalist Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), the dominant party in India's coalition national government.
		Today, unfortunately, all these organisations are in a state of decay and their achievements questioned, not on any grounds of excellence or competence, but on the basis of commercial considerations.
		FTII students who have resisted these changes, and there has been general opposition and discontent at every stage of dilution and decay of the institute, have been vilified by the authorities.
	www.wsws.org /articles/2000/sep2000/ftii-s25.shtml (1075 words)

	FTII revives acting course after 26 years-Pune-Cities-NEWS-The Times of India (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-20)
		The sprawling campus of FTII was buzz with activity when 20 candidates from various parts of the country made their entry into the institute with dreams in their eyes.
		While Shah, an FTII alumnus, has redesigned the acting course, Baswani is the coordinator.
		FTII has so far trained about 1,400 students in its diploma courses and over 6,000 professionals and others in short-term course.
	timesofindia.indiatimes.com /articleshow/775103.cms (539 words)

	Film & Television Institute of India (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-20)
		FTII is a member of CILCET (International Liaison Centre of Schools of Cinema and Television)--an organization of the world's leading schools of film and television.
		FTII enters short films by students in various international short film festivals to give exposure to their work.
		The 21st Film Appreciation Course was conducted jointly by FTII and the National Film Archives of India in the FTII campus from May 27 to June 2.
	filmindia.indonet.com /orgs/ftii/ftii.html (577 words)

	FTII to issue notices to striking students
		M.S.M. MUMBAI, SEPT 15: Film and Television Institute of India (FTII) students on strike since August 29 will be issued notices asking them why disciplinary action should not be taken against them for remaining absent from classes.
		FTII Director Dr Mohan Agashe said that Minister of Information and Broadcasting Arun Jaitley, whom he met in New Delhi, had asked students to return to the classes, failing which they face rustication.
		However, students squatting at FTII entrance agitating for re-introduction of the three-year course are adamant on continuing the strike till their demands are met.
	www.expressindia.com /ie/daily/20000916/ina16045.html (322 words)

	A peep into courses offered by FTII
		Government of India established the Film Institute of India in the year 1960, for the purpose of imparting quality education in the field of filmmaking.
		FTII is today recognized as a premier institution in film and television education, not only in India, but all over the world.
		FTII is a member of CILECT (Centre International de Liaison des Ecoles de Cinema et de Television), the apex body of all prominent film and television schools of the world.
	www.screenindia.com /fullstory.php?content_id=12570 (254 words)

	HIMAL SOUTH ASIAN \| February 2003 \| Report \| Celluloid combustion
		FTII occupies grounds that once belonged to Prabhat Studios where many regional language movies were filmed.
		Back in May 1897, two years after the motion picture era was famously born in the darkened basement of a café with the screening of the Lumiere train sequence, in Paris, nitrate film passing through a projector caught alight and 180 people died in the ensuing fire.
		And yet, a large number of films that are important aesthetically as well as historically from the first days of filmmaking, seem to be fast disappearing from the world due to either negligence or poor maintenance or indifference.
	www.himalmag.com /2003/february/report_3.html (1382 words)

	FTII course for professionals
		The course, which begins on June 30, at the FTII, is a pilot for director Dr Mohan Agashe's plans to start short-term paid courses for professionals.
		Dr Agashe denies that the course is a part of the money-raising activities of FTII, which had been opposed vehemently by students fearing change in the entire objective of the government institute.
		At the moment we are focussing on specific objectives which have been spelt out in the course structure, we want to check if it is feasible to run such courses, how they are to be conducted and what is the response from professions for whom the courses will be organiseds, says Dr Agashe.
	www.expressindia.com /ie/daily/19980629/18051274.html (369 words)

	FTII students to go to court- The Times of India (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-20)
		PUNE: Students of the Film and Television Institute of India (FTII) are planning to file a public interest litigation in the Bombay high court early next week, for allegedly violating procedural norms while finalising the name of the new permanent director.
		The students have served legal notices on FTII chairman U.R. Ananthamurthy, the premier institute’s officiating director Prem Matiyani and the Prime Minister’s Office on June 21.
		FTII students association president Binitesh Baruri told TNN on July 9 that the FTII governing council (GC), which met on March 24, had forwarded the names of two additional candidates to information and broadcasting (IandB) ministry officials without the requisite quorum.
	www1.timesofindia.indiatimes.com /articleshow/msid-68383,prtpage-1.cms (360 words)

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		The FTII has already acquired a reputation for being a centre of excellence with films made by students being entered in Indian and foreign film festivals and even winning awards.
		The FTII was established in 1960 in the former Prabhat Studios in Pune as an autonomous body under the Ministry of Information and Broadcasting of the Government of India.
		The 21-acre FTII complex on the edge of the Western Ghats and the plateaus of the Deccan is well-equipped and runs courses like cinematography, editing, audiography, screenplay writing and TV engineering.
	www.gulf-news.com /Articles/World2.asp?ArticleID=126185 (548 words)

	Indiainfo.com -> News -> India -> FTII students’ agitation enters second day
		Pune: Film And Television Institute of India (FTII) Director Mohan Agashe has described the ongoing strike by the students, which entered the second day on Wednesday, as uncalled for since the students were ''fully aware of the course and fee structure even before admission''.
		The institute has currently introduced a new one + one + one course structure under which after the first year, only a short listed number of students would be allowed into the second year and the student number would be further curtailed in the third year.
		Giving a point-by-point clarification of the students' demands, Agashe told reporters here today that the prospectus of the institute had been published in October last year which had clearly mentioned that the course offered by the FTII was a basic one-year course in film and television.
	news.indiainfo.com /2000/08/30/30ftii.html (422 words)

	The Telegraph - Calcutta : KnowHOW
		The fact that both Ghai and Sahara wish to invest heavily into such institutes is an indication that they want to tap into the booming entertainment sector that is expected to touch revenues of more than Rs 15,000 crore in the next five years.
		The FTII acting course, begun in July this year, has been designed by its alumni and two of India?s finest actors, Naseeruddin Shah and comedian Ravi Vaswani.
		FTII?s acting course has produced some of the biggest names in the film industry including Jaya Bachchan, Danny Denzongpa, Shabana Azmi, Tom Alter, Om Puri, Suresh Oberoi, Satish Shah, and Smita Patil.
	www.telegraphindia.com /1041103/asp/careergraph/story_3956696.asp (751 words)

	[cr-india] FTII radio plays a sad six month song (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-20)
		On June 12, 2002, actor-turned minister, Vinod Khanna, who was here to attend an FTII governing council meeting, said the CCRT project would kick-start in "six months".
		FTII dean (television) Iftekhar Ahmed told TNN that six months ago, Rs 10 lakh had been paid from "planned funds" to Akashwani.
		FTII academic co-ordinator and professor of sound engineering Satish Kumar told TNN on Monday that the delay could have caused due to the lengthy procedures involved in acquiring radio transmission license.
	mail.sarai.net /pipermail/cr-india/2004-March/002784.html (474 words)

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