MUMBAI: As part of its regular endeavour to promote the development of the cinema in India, the National Film Development Corporation (NFDC) will conduct Screenwriters‘ Lab 2010 this year.

Screenwriter‘s Lab 2010, being done in association with Binger Filmlab and Locarno International Film Festival, is a workshop designed to prepare screenwriters with original Indian stories for working with the international filmmaking market place. It aims at improving a completed screenplay in its final stages and to increase the international marketability of the same.

The first session to be held from 7 to 9 August during the Locarno International Film Festival, Switzerland, in which participants will get first-hand experience of the workings of the international film community and will also get to train with their screenplay mentors.

The second session to be conducted at Film Bazaar, Goa from 23 to 26 November will be where participants will apply their training and pitch their revised screenplays to participants at the film market.

The workshop will be conducted by Marten Rabarts, Artistic Director, Binger Filmlab, aided by experienced international guest mentors.