Mumbai,Lalit Tewari ,9 Dec :The Film Writers’ Association (FWA) announces the 2nd Indian Screenwriters’ Conference – dedicated to Vijay Tendulkar and his work – to be held at Mumbai on December 13 & 14 at the Indira Gandhi Institute of Development Research, Goregaon, Mumbai. The Conference also takes up the issue of screenwriters’ professional rights. What are a writer’s legitimate rights? What should be the standard of remuneration? What about credit protection? How does one deal with royalties? What are the problems confronting the writer-director and the writer-producer relationship?
All the leading lights of screenwriting will be attending. Confirmed panelists include Javed Akhtar, Kamal Haasan, Ashutosh Gowariker, Rajkumar Hirani, Anurag Basu, Rakeysh Omprakash Mehra, Prakash Jha, Jalees Sherwani, S.M.Vasanth, Abbas Tyrewala, Anurag Kashyap, Amole Gupte, Anjum Rajabali, Sriram Raghavan, Atul Tiwari, Shridhar Raghavan, Jalees Sherwani, Imteyaz Hussain, B.R.Ishara, Govind Nihalani, Amol Palekar, Dr. Jabbar Patel, Vinay Shukla, Rohan Sippy, Vipul Shah, Subhash Ghai and several other luminaries of screenwriting.