Mumbai, May 22 (PTI) National Film and Development Corporation (NFDC) is providing a platform to promising scriptwriters to prepare them for working and selling original screenplays in the international filmmaking market.

The Government-run agency is organising Screenwriter's Lab 2011, a two-session workshop designed to prepare screenwriters with original Indian stories for working in the international arena.

It is being organised in association with Binger FilmLab, an Amsterdam-based feature-film development agency.

The workshop aims at improving a completed screenplay and increasing the international marketability of the same.

The first session will be held during the Venice International Film Festival in September where participants will get first-hand experience of the workings of the international film community and get to train with their screenplay mentors.

The second session will be held at Film Bazaar, IFFI Goa from November 24?27 where participants will apply their training and pitch their revised screenplays to participants at the film market.