Madras Film Institute
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The Film & Television Institute of Tamil Nadu is an advanced Technical Institute, which is imparting education on film techniques and aesthetics. The main objective is to impart training in various techniques of Film and Television Production and allied subjects. The Film and Television Institute of Tamil Nadu is one of the five major institutes in India. The others are Film and Television Institute of India
Film and Television Institute of India
Film and Television Institute of India , is an autonomous Institute under the Ministry of Information and Broadcasting, Govt. of India. It is fully aided by Central Government of India. It is situated in the premises of the erstwhile Prabhat Film Company in Pune, India...

, Pune
Pune
Pune , is the eighth largest metropolis in India, the second largest in the state of Maharashtra after Mumbai, and the largest city in the Western Ghats. Once the centre of power of the Maratha Empire, it is situated 560 metres above sea level on the Deccan plateau at the confluence of the Mula ...

, Satyajit Ray Film and Television Institute
Satyajit Ray Film and Television Institute
Satyajit Ray Film and Television Institute is a film institute in Kolkata, West Bengal, India.The institute was established in 1995, and registered as a Society on 18.8.95 under the West Bengal Societies Registration Act, 1961 and is an autonomous society funded by Ministry of Information and...

 in Kolkata
Kolkata
Kolkata , formerly known as Calcutta, is the capital of the Indian state of West Bengal. Located on the east bank of the Hooghly River, it was the commercial capital of East India...

,Government Film and Television Institute in Bangalore and Bijupatnaik Film and Television Institute Orissa
Orissa
Orissa , officially Odisha since Nov 2011, is a state of India, located on the east coast of India, by the Bay of Bengal. It is the modern name of the ancient nation of Kalinga, which was invaded by the Maurya Emperor Ashoka in 261 BC. The modern state of Orissa was established on 1 April...

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The Film & Television Institute of Tamil Nadu is run by the Government of Tamil Nadu
Government of Tamil Nadu
The Government of Tamil Nadu, headquartered at Chennai is the governing authority for the Indian State of Tamil Nadu. It is seated at the Fort St. George...

 and is functioning under the administrative control of Director of Information and Public Relations.
The institute also called as M.G.R Film and Television Institute of Tamil Nadu. It is located at CIT Campus Taramani, Chennai
Chennai
Chennai , formerly known as Madras or Madarasapatinam , is the capital city of the Indian state of Tamil Nadu, located on the Coromandel Coast off the Bay of Bengal. Chennai is the fourth most populous metropolitan area and the sixth most populous city in India...

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The following Diploma courses are conducted in the Film and Television Institute of Tamil Nadu.
  • 1. Direction and Screenplay writing
  • 2. Cinematography
  • 3. Sound Recording and Sound Engineering
  • 4. Film processing
  • 5. Film Editing


The Government of Tamil Nadu are presenting an award of one sovereign gold medal, Rs.5,000/- and a memento to the Best Director, Best cinematographer, Best Editor, Best Sound recordist and Best Film Processor of the short films produced by the students of this institute.

Notable alumni

  1. Rajinikanth
  2. Chiranjeevi
    Chiranjeevi
    Chiranjeevi is a Telugu film actor and a politician. He has appeared primarily in Telugu Cinema along with a few Tamil, Kannada and Hindi films. He made his acting debut in Punadhirallu . However, Pranam Khareedu released at the box office earlier...

  3. P. C. Sreeram
  4. Ayananka Bose
    Ayananka Bose
    Ayananka Bose is a young Bollywood cinematographer who born in Uttar Pradesh .-Early life:Bose educated at the Film and Television Institute of Tamil Nadu and then received his early training from ace cinematographers Rajiv Menon and Ravi K. Chandran....

  5. Suhasini
  6. K. P. Nambiathiri
    K. P. Nambiathiri
    K. P. Nambiathiri is a cinematographer whose work spans across 2 decades in the Indian Film Industry. He is also the first stereographer in India and has worked in a multitude of 3-D films....

  7. C. Rudhraiya
  8. Bhaskar (director)
  9. Chinni Jayanth
    Chinni Jayanth
    Chinni Jayanth is a Tamil director, producer, comedian, actor, and mimicry artist, who has appeared in many supporting roles in Tamil films, he is also a regular guest judge on Asathapovathu Yaaru on Sun TV in Chennai.He is also the recipient of the prestigious 'KALAIMAMANI AWARD 'given by the...

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