MUMBAI: The 13th edition of the Mumbai Film, a Reliance Entertainment initiative, is scheduled to get underway on 13 October.

Among various activities, a three-day Indo-German script development workshop has been planned. The workshop will be held in association with ‘Germany and India 2011-2012 – Infinite Opportunities, Life Entertainment, Primehouse, dffb, Hff and Skw Schwarz.

The workshop, for screen-writers, directors, producers and film students who want to explore opportunities in story-telling and more globally accepted story development, especially between Germany and India, will begin two days earlier on 11 October.
 
"Any writer, director and producer who has at least one film to his credit can apply for the workshop. Film direction and script writing students from the film institutes like FTII (Film and Television Institute of India) in India can also attend the workshop,” said 13th Mumbai Film Festival festival director S. Narayanan in an statement.

‘We have the privilege of welcoming talents like Dani Levy, Thorsten Schulz, Jochen Brunow who will share the platform with Indian directors such as Ashutosh Gowarikar amongst others. We believe that this is a huge step forward,‘ he added.

An Indo-German project will be presented during the workshop as a case study in how collaboration between Indian and German writers and directors might work.