MUMBAI: In keeping with its mandate of promoting the development of cinemas of India, the National Film Development Corporation Ltd. (NFDC), in association with Binger Filmlab and Locarno International Film Festival, has decided to conduct Screenwriters‘ Lab 2010, a 2-part screenwriters‘ workshop for writing and selling original Indian screenplays.

The workshop will aim at improving a completed screenplay in its final stages and to increase the international marketability of the same.

The first session will be held during the Locarno International Film Festival, Switzerland, from 7 to 9 August this year where participants will get first-hand experience of the workings of the international film community and get to train with their screenplay mentors.

The 2nd session would be held at Film Bazaar, Goa, from 23 to 26 November where participants will apply their training and pitch their revised screenplays to participants at the film market.

The workshop will be conducted by Marten Rabarts, artistic director, Binger Filmlab, aided by experienced international guest mentors.