The Department of Drama and Film of Bangladesh Shilpakala Academy has organised a month-long film appreciation course in Chattogram.
Director general of the BSA, Syed Jamil Ahmed, inaugurated the course on December 8.
Among others, course director Zahirul Islam Kochi, course instructors Shoibal Chowdhury and Saikat Dey were present at the inaugural ceremony.
Moderated by cultural officer of the district academy, Md Moslem Uddin, course coordinator Md Ikramul Islam delivered welcome speech at the ceremony.
In collaboration with Chattogram District Shilpakala Academy, and under the overall supervision of Faiz Zahir, director of the drama and film department, the instructors of the course are Moinuddin Khaled, N Rashed Chowdhury, Zahirul Islam, Humaira Bilkis, Nahid Masud, Wahid Tarek, Rafiqul Anwar Russell, Kashef Shahbaji, Kislu Golam Haider, Saikat Dey, Shoibal Chowdhury, Chaitali Samadder, Bidhan Ribeiro, Sadia Khalid Reeti, and Rajibul Hossain.
The topics of the course include film aesthetics, film history, artistic use of the camera, editing, sound and music, director鈥檚 worldview and aesthetic ideas, director鈥檚 dreams and applications, documentary theory and applications, global film movements and diversity of aesthetics, film language, film analysis and criticism, conversations with directors, new technologies and the future of film.
The course will be conducted every Friday and Saturday from December 13 to January 10.
