Monday, December 30, 2002		Feature

Actor and producer platform

A new Web portal, indoscreen.com, has been launched here to provided simple, and effective link between the film industry and the talents who aspire to build up a career in the industry.

"The site, www.indoscreen.com, will link the artists with the producers and directors all over the world directly and remove the middlemen," portal Managing Director Raman Tandon said at the launch.

Anyone can create their own Web page with the portal free of cost. The producers and directors seeking new faces would be able to look through the posted matter and utilise the aspiring talents, he said. "The portal will keep looking for good talent and try to promote them by innovative means," the portal MD said.

The producers, directors and the advertisement agencies can display their notices on the notice board in the portal about casting and audition thus facilitating their process of selection, he said.

Indoscreen Film and Television Academy, an affiliate of the union Financial Corporation of the US was also launched on the same occasion. Apart from acting, direction, and camera operations, the institute provides courses on ‘ action and stunt’, and Basic and Film based choreography, Mr Tandon said.

There is also a special "acting and personality development," course for children between eight and 15, he added.