NEW DELHI: The Sundance Institute is to join Indian film production company Drishyam for the Sundance Institute Screenwriters lab that will be held in Goa from 12 to 16 April.
 
Drishyam is a recent entrant to the Indian independent film production scene, having produced Umrika that won the audience award in the world cinema dramatic category at Sundance this year. Its Dhanak won the Grand Prix in the Generation KPlus segment at Berlin.
 
Former Mumbai Film Festival director S Narayanan is heading the Sundance-Drishyam lab.
 
“The lab will be very beneficial for Indian Cinema in the long run. It goes well with our idea of promoting content driven cinema. Films like Margarita with A Straw, Umrika and Masaan have come out of Sundance Screenwriters Lab,” said Drishyam chairman Manish Mundra.
 

Sundance had a three year partnership with the Mahindra group to conduct Indian screenwriting labs that came to an end last year.