23 May 2020
The Department of Media Studies, School of Arts and Humanities, REVA University organised a webinar on “Documentary making for OTT platforms” on 23rd May 2020.
The speaker was Ms. Vrinda Samartha. She is an independent filmmaker who is also associated with brands such as TATA and Akshayapathra. Her documentary, Limitless is internationally acclaimed and is now streaming on Netflix. Ms Vrinda spoke about her first documentary in college, the story behind Limitless, the process behind it reaching Netflix among other productions. She also spoke about the importance of film festivals for documentaries and various distributing methods that can be adopted by documentary makers.
It was an interaction session and the aspiring documentary makers from all over the country asked her questions related to funding, music rights, b roll videos, beginner’s strategies, adoptable genres, sites, future of documentaries etc. Ms. Vrinda answered all these questions and educated the students thoroughly on aspects such as content creation for OTT and the criteria for a film to reach those platforms. She also spoke about Sundance student film lab which conducts lab sessions exclusively for students under the age of 25. The participants of the webinar gained a lot of insight in documentary filmmaking and were eager to start their work on documentaries.
