Teaching cinema is tricky because no one can teach cinema! Cinema is essentially a trial & error craft. Mentoring this craft in an entertaining and knowledgeable manner to fellow filmmakers or film professionals is the challenge. Now, this mentoring is exactly akin to filmmaking! In filmmaking, you tell a story; it might be liked or might not, can anyone guarantee that the story or the film will surely be liked?
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| Amit R Agarwal Cinema MasterClass: With actresses & fellow filmmakers in Kyrgyzstan |
Fusing entertainment, playing to the gallery & understanding the audiences is the key to be a successful filmmaker; I always lay stress on these three basics and tell all fellow filmmakers I mentor, to master them.
Almost everyone that I have met in my MasterClass worldwide, even the ones working professionally lack these skills.
The other major skills, of course, is to develop a global network. I never say that their are good or bad films; I always say there are only two kind of films. One that make money & other that lose money. A lot of flop films that get made worldwide, are thanks to the networking and marketing skills of the filmmakers!
I also find a lot of fellow filmmakers that make 'good' films, suffer from unnecessary ego trappings. Point is, in a film school, you are better than 500 or 1000 odd students, but once you step out in the industry, you compete with about a billion people working in entertainment industry worldwide! Are you ready to take on them?
