MUMBAI: Sandhya Daisy Sundaram, a final year student from the field of direction in the Film and Television Institute of India (FTII), has been selected to participate in Cinetrain, The Russian Winter Project to be held in Russia in January next year.

During the project, selected filmmakers from around the world travel across Russia and make documentaries on given topics. A total number of seven documentaries will be made during the project, while Sandhya will be directing the film on Russian Women.

Teams have to shoot and edit short documentary novels on a given theme. The result of the project is a full-length documentary composed of several novels different in form and approach.

The idea behind the Russian Winter Project is to explore the Russian north during winter time, taking a fresh look at the stereotypes about Russia. The project is now in development and will take place in January 2013, with the support of the Ministry of Culture of the Russian Federation.

Launched in 2008, the idea of Cinetrain has been to bring a unique working method, invented by Russian documentary filmmakers in the 1930s.