On behalf of all our faculty & staff, I welcome you all to the School of Film & Theatre or as we fondly refer to it as SFT.

As dean of SFT, I am very proud of the rich tradition that we have adopted to impart experiential learning of Film Education. Endorsed under the aegis MIT ADT University, our program prepares students to become film makers with the ethical depth and intellectual intensity essential to meet the challenges of a time of critical transition in society.

Any creative school under a university has 4 building blocks.

First block is knowledge creation. Any Film, media or art school will have teaching professors, professors of practice, research professor, visiting professors and adjunct professors.For us, the foremost important is the research Professor, because without doing any research, an educator is not complete. Today things are changing with lightning speed, so we need to keep abreast with teaching pedagogy. So Learning, Creating and Sharing becomes a part of an educator’s life. Hence knowledge creation is the foremost building block.

2nd Building Block gives rise to teaching and learning Ecosystem called Assurance of learning. Its Output based education system. We are always measuring our output vis a vis our students so that we can we assure them that whatever we have promised, we are delivering.

3rd Building Block is making our SFT known and recognize for its academic excellence and to develop it as the most preferred Film & Theatre school for learning.

The 4th Building Block aligns us with our stakeholders viz. parents, recruiters, management, trustees whose expectations we need to fulfill.

Generating Ideas is not a problem. But the lack of know-how as to how to give them shape, is what prevents us from reaching our goal. It’s one’s attachment to the baggage that we carry, that prevents us from giving fruition to our ideas. Here’s where SFT comes into picture. “Our carefully constructed curriculum uses a combination of in – classroom teachings and real-world film making simulations, along with assurance of learning pushes the students to think outside the box.

Change starts with you! Giving yourself permission to push outside expectations, unleashing your curiosity to discover what’s next and imagining a future other can’t yet see.

I would like to cordially invite all of you who are interested in expanding your knowledge and enriching your careers to explore our school further either online or through a visit to our campus.

Dr. Mukesh Sharma
Dean, School of Film & Theatre
MIT-ADT University, Pune