Satyajit Ray Film & Television Institute (Srfti)

The institute is equipped with up to date technology and is aimed at producing film and television professionals, capable of independent creative and innovative work in the field and thus contributing to the growth and development of cinema in the country.

SRFTI’s objectives:
- To impart practical and theoretical training in all aspects of film and television production, including introduction to related fields.
- Grant Certificates, Diplomas, Honours Diplomas and such other certificates etc. as may be instituted from time to time to the trainees on successful completion of prescribed courses of study;
- Co-ordinate the activities of education and skill development in the field of film and television programme conception and production.

MANAGEMENT & ORGANISATIONAL FRAMEWORK
SRFTI is a fully funded autonomous institution under the Ministry of Information and Broadcasting, run by a Society constituted by the Government of India. The Society, headed by a President, runs the Institute through a Governing Council (GC). The Society, Governing Council and Standing Finance Committee have officials of the Ministry of I&B as ex-officio members representing the Government. There is an Academic Council (AC), which is empowered to take policy decisions as regards all academic and production-related affairs of the Institute.

Shri Basu Chatterjee, the renowned filmmaker, is the present President of the Society by virtue of which he is also the Chairman of the Governing Council, Academic Council and other Committees.

The Director is the Head of the Institute and functions as the Member-Secretary of the Governing Council, Academic Council etc. He is assisted by the Dean in academic affairs and by the Registrar in administrative matters.

At present Shri Swapan Mullick is the Director.
Shri Adinath Das is the Dean.

LOCATION
Situated at the eastern fringe of the city of Kolkata, SRFTI has a sprawling green campus with lakes and ponds that offers an array of settings to the discerning filmmaker with camera eye. SRFTI is an idyllic set-up for comprehensive training in filmmaking and television production. It is about an hour’s drive from the city’s two major railway stations, Howrah and Sealdah. The distance from the Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose Airport is around 18 km. It is conveniently located on the Eastern Metropolitan Bypass Road, with the Peerless Hospital as a nearby landmark.