We recently went on a trip to Mumbai from Bangalore, to attend the Mumbai International Film Festival for Short, Documentary and Animation films. We went there with quite a lot of excitement, but there were only a few films that made a mark for us. The other films, for me, were also very important to see, as watching them made me realise that we are really doing a good job. We have a great teaching staff, who are showing us the right path, and we are creatively growing so much more than some of our counterparts from other film schools. Yes, we might not have the best equipment like dolly tracks, jimmy jibs and all, but we are learning to function without them, and that is what is the greatest thing about us...
The other learnings that I had in Mumbai, after visiting the city after so long, was that you have to have a great ability to keep your cool when you are there in the city. For one, the local trains are so so Jam Packed that you have to let go of all those "pretty" ideas about yourself and learn to get stamped on your feet, and get squeezed between two people who have huge baloons as bellies. This was also a great learning experience.
The fact that me and few of my friends were living in Panvel, which is quite outside the city, also gave us the opportunity to see so much more than the others who were staying really close by to the NCPA, where the MIFF was happening.
In all, was a great trip.....
