FTII, SRFTI granted college standing: Training ministry

FTII was arrange by the federal government of India in 1960, within the premises of the erstwhile Prabhat Studios in Pune. Previously generally known as the ‘Movie Institute of India’, it was a division of the ministry of knowledge and broadcasting.

In 1971, FTII got here to be generally known as the ‘Movie and Tv Institute of India’ and shortly began in-service coaching programmes for Doordarshan, India’s public broadcaster. The tv coaching wing, which was earlier functioning in New Delhi, shifted to Pune in 1974. Thereafter, the institute grew to become totally aided by the I&B ministry. In 2017, the Affiliation of Indian Universities (AIU) granted equivalence to 6 PG diploma programmes of the institute with Grasp’s levels.

Positioned in Kolkata and named after the legendary maestro Satyajit Ray, SRFTI was the second nationwide centre of cinema training established in 1995 by the federal government of India as an autonomous tutorial establishment underneath the I&B ministry.

At presently, the institute conducts three-year postgraduate programmes in cinema in six specialisations of filmmaking and two-year postgraduate programmes in electronics and digital media in six specialisations.