Film Festival
Learning reaches its fullest value when work meets an audience. The FootPrint Film Festival provides that stage.
Each year, young filmmakers from India and abroad present their work alongside established practitioners, receiving the opportunity to screen their films, exchange ideas, and join a community of students, educators, and industry professionals that grows with every edition.
Now in its 6th year, the festival has been hosted in New Delhi and Kolkata, with future editions extending to additional cities across India, in collaboration with the Ministry of Culture, the National Film Development Corporation, and UNICEF.
FootPrint is The Peninsula Studios' investment in the future. If Brains Trust preserves the judgement of experience, and the Music Archive preserves musical traditions, FootPrint develops the storytellers who will document the generations to come.
FootPrint grows through partnerships with institutions that believe the next generation deserves both opportunity and an audience.
The programme has worked with the Ministry of Culture, the National Film Development Corporation, UNICEF, and the Ministry of Information and Broadcasting, alongside schools run by the Indian Air Force and the Indian Navy.
Institutions and corporations can work with FootPrint through Learning by Making, the annual Film Festival, or longer-term partnerships that combine both. Each carries a different level of involvement and visibility, from festival sponsorship to sustained programme funding.
Today's students become tomorrow's storytellers. FootPrint exists to help that happen.
For partnership enquiries: +91 9899004393 · thepeninsulastudios@tps.ind.in
Art of Content Creation
Every generation inherits stories. Every generation must also learn to tell its own.
The future of any culture depends not only on what it preserves, but on who learns to observe, interpret, and tell its stories.
FootPrint exists to help young people develop the judgement, discipline, and craft to tell stories that matter. It combines practical learning with public exhibition, giving young filmmakers the opportunity not only to make films, but to have them seen.
Like every part of The Peninsula Studios, FootPrint exists to ensure that work of lasting value finds its audience.
Every filmmaker starts somewhere.
FootPrint brings together practitioners from film, journalism, documentary, television, and digital media to teach through practice rather than theory. Participants learn by researching, filming, editing, interviewing, and presenting their own work under professional guidance.
The programme is certified by the National Skill Development Corporation (NSDC). Over 10,000 students across more than 100 schools — including institutions run by the Indian Air Force and the Indian Navy — have trained through FootPrint, producing over 2,500 films.
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What you will need: a camera — a smartphone is fine — and a Windows or Mac computer with free video editing software. Films made through the programme go directly into FootPrint Film Festivals, and selected student articles and videos are published on footprintfilmfestival.com and in the Peninsula Post
