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Mumbai-based film Production Company Mukta Arts is launching a film school named Whistling Woods International.  Today most of us in the industry are products <a href=https://www.stanleywebsite.us>stanley website</a>  of individual and instinctive talent without much professional training,  Mukta Arts  Subhash Ghai told Screendaily.  We want to change that. If the Hindi film industry needs to achieve pre-eminence and be able to address a global audience, it needs to have greater professionalism.  The Mumbai-based institute will open its doors by the end of 2004 and will teach eight disciplines - direction, cinematography, sound engineering, screenplay writing, editing, art direction, production and acting. All programmes will be two-year full-time courses, consisting of a one-year foundation course followed by the specialisation course. It plans to be a conservatory that will train Indian and Asian students in the aesthetics of cinema as well as its business. Spread over 20 acres in Mumbai s Film City, the institute will also be short-term courses of three months and intensive creative 3-6 month programmes.Whistling Woods is a joint venture between Ghai s company Mukta Arts, which is listed on the Bombay Stock Exchange, and the Maha <a href=https://www.stanleycups.it>stanley cup</a> rashtra government. Mukta Arts has an 85% stake in the joint venture, with the government holdiing the rest. The institute is  <a href=https://www.cups-stanley-cups.us>stanley cup</a> expected to cost $18m and will train 200 students a year. Facilities will include a television shooting floor/control room, professional sound recording and mixing studios, dubbing  Gmpw Picture This! takes Taiwan s Eternal Summer to North America
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