#HGAcademy: The Art Of Learning From Watching Films With Renowned Filmmaker Bejoy Nambiar

#HGAcademy: At a time when our physical spaces are confined and movement is stifled, the only constant in our lives is our own creativity. For a while, we, at Homegrown have been toying with the idea of evolving our platform into space that inspires generations to believe that their career paths are not limited to those shaped by our society and that there is a world out there that where creative industries are thriving. Our sole motivation behind this attempt is to shift the needle in the Indian creative industries.

Homegrown as a brand has always stood for responding to the Indian youth’s needs, and to this end, we bring to you HG Academy, to teach you everything your school didn’t. As we spend our days inside our homes and within ourselves, HGAcademy with its commune of creative thought leaders and pioneers will teach you the basics that you might not get access to elsewhere. We hope for it to evolve into a culture of creation, collaboration, discovery through an exchange of thoughts & ideas. The coming weeks will see digital festivals, skill-building sessions, new personal & professional strategies and similar efforts towards connecting you to the world of creators to learn and be inspired. The aim is to deep-dive into the creative process, new ways of learning, re-imagination of old ways and experience and learn more. This session, we have acclaimed Director Bijoy Nambiar to help us learn from watching movies.

Bejoy Nambiar is a director, and screenwriter and he is mostly known for his critically acclaimed films, Rahu (2005), Shaitan (2011), David (2013), and Reflections (2005). He marked his feature film debut with the thriller Shaitan. His second feature film was a bilingual gangster-comedy film called David. Before venturing into Bollywood, he was declared the best director at Sony PIX’s Gateway to Hollywood which was judged by an esteemed panel comprising Ashok Amritraj, Rajat Kapoor, and Anurag Basu. In 2018, Bejoy wrote the story for Akarsh Khurana’s Karwaan starring Dulquer Salmaan, Irrfan Khan and Mithila Palkar in prominent roles. The following are his recommendations for understanding films better:

Books:

Bejoy is currently reading The Conversations by Walter Murch and The Art Of Editing Film by Michael Ondaatje. His other suggestions are:

All That Man Is - David Szalay

Way Of The Peaceful Warrior - Dan Millman

The Demon Seed and other writings - M.T. Vasudevan Nair

Uncommon Type - Tom Hanks

Movies:

Portrait of A Lady On Fire

Incendies

Naseeb

Podcasts:

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