Madurai Media and Film Studies Academy

Our Vision
“Visual media for creative engagement of culture and society" Dr. T. Somehow, I broke this tradition when I successfully launched BSc. J.

Chinnaraj Joseph Jaikumar
Founder and Director

The founding of the Madurai Media and Film Studies Academy (MMFSA) is no magic coming from the whiff of thin evening breeze. Personally for me, it is more than ten years of dreaming, experimenting, getting disappointed and starting it all again. For long, media and communication studies remained as the privilege of the metropolitan cities like Chenna

i, Kolkata and Mumbai. The easy excuse was the physical proximity of academic institutions to film and advertisement industries. Though considerable talent for the film/media industry came from the rural hinterland and small towns, ‘walking on the knees syndrome’ kept many academic institutions of second-tier cities not to risk with anything like film or media studies. Visual Communication at American College in 2007 under autonomy curriculum, using my privileged position as its Principal and Secretary. Then in the next three or four years, from very close quarters, I could watch how the curriculum, pedagogy and academy-industry interface worked. There were three important lessons to be learnt. First, media and visual communication studies like any other professional education demand certain ambience and ethos that could better come from specialized institutions exclusively dedicated to the purpose. Secondly, it calls for a core faculty who, beyond possessing academic qualifications, must possess practioner’s experience or exposure to industry. Thirdly, there needs to be a perfect balance between technical training on one hand and art history, aesthetics, theory and philosophy on the other hand. (The neglect of the latter has made poor caricatures of visual communication courses to ‘technician’s training’). The next opportunity for me came, after I left American College and joined a motley crew of artists, film technicians and young graduates of Visual Communication who got involved in the project of preserving a few thousand art works left behind by Prof. Vasanthan and of course more importantly in the making of a feature film length documentary on his life. In the next two years, the intensely close interactions with young graduate-technicians, on-field and off- field observations, discussions across editorial desk etc., only strengthened my conviction further. Every provocative discussion on media education with the youngsters would always result in conjuring up the dream of setting up an ‘ideal institution.’ This was the real trigger finally for me to go to senior academician friends, friends in the industry and well-wishers mooting the idea of starting an institution in Madurai. Madurai Media and Film Studies Academy (MMFSA) became a reality in no time.

01/10/2024

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03/12/2023

https://www.youtube.com/live/_BG6-b6BtT4?si=ThYhP7bSqY8F51we

25th Madurai Film Festival
Day 3, 3 December

Seminar 03 : Old and world Documentaries
Time : 11 am to 4 pm
Venue : Madurai Media and Film Studies Academy

Guest speakers : Chinnaraj Joseph Thangaraj, George Kutty, Asha Achu Joseph, Divya Bharathi, Madurai Babu, Mohammad Safi and Manikandan.

We welcome you all!

For registration : 9940642044 / 9444025348

My Broadcast

28/11/2023

25th Madurai International Documentary and Short Film Festival 2023
Dec - 03, 11am to 5 pm
@ Madurai Media and Film Studies Academy

04/12/2022

Screening Schedule of 24th Madurai International Documentary and Short Film Festival 2022.
Date: 6 Dec 2022
Venue: Madurai Media and Film Studies Academy

30/11/2022

24th Madurai International Documentary & Short Film Festival - 2022 on DEC 06 at Madurai Media and Film Studies Academy
between 10AM and 4PM

Jointly Organised by
Madurai Media and Film Studies Academy
Department of Sociology - Gandhigram Rural Institute
Department of Communication - Madurai Kamaraj University
MUTA/IDEAS/Kaleidoscope and MARUPAKKAM

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26/08/2021

Admission Open!
2021 - 2022
Contact - 95855 95885

Madurai Media and Film Studies Academy Our Vision
“Visual media for creative engagement of culture and society"

26/08/2021

Required skills:
Maintaining Facebook account, Instagram account, web page.
Posting a content with own write up's in Tamil and English.
Handling enquiries at Reception.
Mail id - [email protected]

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17/09/2020

A Maverick called Yathartha Rajan
The sudden passing away of Yathartha Rajan is a rude shock. By all count he stands distinctly out there as one who pioneered the film movement in Madurai region. He singularly devoted more than four decades of his life to this cause. It is difficult to give a label to him- a leader of film movement, activist, film exhibitor, filmmaker, jury, educator and more. He was a committed public intellectual by action who influenced young and old not through abstruse film theories and esoteric reviews but through a maverick life style and endearing nature which inevitably created an irresistible osmosis in people who came in contact with him. He was a one-man army who wanted to push cinema beyond the threshold of entertainment and teach it as an art, education and politics. He was a kind of wanderer who did not want to keep a journal of landmarks he crossed over. Today, Rajan vividly lives in the memory of all those whom he inspired and influenced. Capturing their testimony would make a unique page in the history of film movement in Tamilnadu. There can’t be a more fitting tribute to Rajan than this.
- Dr. Chinnaraj Joseph

04/08/2020

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