Last Friday, monthly
Screening Night
Work-in-progress and finished films on the studio's big screen and proper speakers, followed by feedback that is specific and kind in that order. Ten minutes per piece. Bring a cut, or bring an opinion.
A Gloworks community · Bengaluru
Dream Together
A room full of people who make films — directors, DOPs, editors, writers, sound folk, actors and the ones still figuring out which of those they are. We meet, we screen, we argue about cuts, and we make things none of us could have made alone.
- Free to join
- Meets monthly in HSR Layout
- Every craft welcome
“A dream you dream alone is only a dream. A dream you dream together is reality.”
We named the community after this line because it is the whole argument. Film is the least solitary art there is — nothing gets made until a group of people agree to believe the same thing at the same time.
The idea
Why this exists
Nobody makes a film alone. Not one. Not ever.
Bengaluru is full of people who can make films and are not making them. The scripts are in drafts folders. The cameras are in cupboards. The edit that would have been brilliant never got a second pair of eyes on it. Almost none of that is a talent problem — it is a room problem. Nobody had a room.
Dream Together is that room. It started as a handful of people hanging around the Gloworks studio after shoots, watching each other's cuts and saying the honest thing. It turned out that was the whole product: regular, unglamorous, generous attention from people who actually know what a shot costs.
So we made it a standing invitation. Once a month the studio stops being a business for an evening and becomes a place to screen your work, read your script out loud, find the DOP you've been missing, or just sit at the back and watch how other people solve problems. There is no membership fee, no showreel to submit and no gatekeeping about how you came to this.
What we ask instead is participation. Bring something — a cut, a scene, a question, or two free hands on someone else's shoot. That is the only currency here, and it is the one that compounds.
The programme
What actually happens
Six things, running on a rhythm. You do not have to do all of them — most people start with one and drift into the rest.
Monthly
Table Reads
Your script, read out loud by actual actors, in a room where nobody is trying to option it. You will hear every line that does not work inside the first five pages — which is exactly why it is worth doing before you shoot.
Always open
The Crew Call
A running board of who needs whom. A director short a DOP, an editor with two free weekends, a sound recordist who wants a short to cut their teeth on. Post what you need, take what you can help with.
Members' rate
Gear & Studio Access
Community members get the studio floor and the Gloworks rental kit at a members' rate for personal and non-commercial projects — cameras, lights, audio, the works. Passion projects should not die on a quote.
Monthly
Craft Sessions
One person, one thing they are genuinely good at, ninety minutes. Colour grading. Production sound on a budget. Blocking a two-hander. Getting a permit in this city. Taught by whoever in the room does it for a living.
Once a year
The Collab Film
Every year the community writes, crews and shoots one short film together, and everyone who worked on it is in the credits. It is the point of the whole thing: a dream several people had at once, which is the only kind that gets finished.
Monthly
screening nights at the studio
Every craft
from writers to colourists
₹0
to join, always
1 film
made together every year
Everyone on a set
Who it's for
If you make any part of a film — or want to learn how — you are already qualified. There is no audition.
- Directors
- Cinematographers
- Editors
- Writers
- Producers
- Sound recordists
- Actors
- Colourists
- Gaffers & grips
- Assistant directors
- Composers
- Production designers
- VFX & motion artists
- Photographers
- Students & first-timers
The rhythm
A month in the community
Nothing here needs a subscription or a commitment. Show up for the week that suits you.
Week 1
Crew Call opens
The month's board goes up — projects looking for people, people looking for projects. Most collaborations here start as one line on that board.
Week 2
Table Read
One script gets read out loud, start to finish, with parts cast from the room. Writer listens, everybody else performs, notes come after.
Week 3
Craft Session
Ninety minutes on one skill, taught by someone who uses it professionally. Hands on the actual gear wherever the topic allows.
Week 4
Screening Night
The one everybody comes for. Films on the big screen, feedback in the room, and the part afterwards where the real planning happens.
No audition
How to join
Three steps, and the first two take a minute.
01
Tell us who you are
Fill in the form below — your craft, your city and what you are itching to make. That is the entire application, and there is nothing to pass.
02
Come to a night
We'll send you the date and address of the next screening night. Come empty-handed the first time; nobody expects you to present anything.
03
Bring something next time
A cut, a scene, a skill or a spare pair of hands. The people who get the most out of this are the ones who put something in — that is the only rule we have.
Before you ask
Questions people actually ask
Is Dream Together free?
Yes. Joining the community, coming to screening nights, table reads and craft sessions costs nothing. The only things that carry a price are gear and studio hire for your own shoots — and members get those at a reduced rate.
I've never made a film. Can I still come?
Please do. A good half of any screening night is people who are earlier in this than they'd like to admit. Come, watch, ask questions, and volunteer on somebody's shoot — that is how most people here learned.
Where and when do you meet?
At the Gloworks studio in Sector 2, HSR Layout, Bengaluru. Screening night is the last Friday of the month, with table reads and craft sessions on the weeks in between. We send the exact date and time to members before each one.
Do I have to show my work?
No. Plenty of members come for a year before they screen anything, and that is completely fine. When you do want a slot, you ask for one — nobody is ever put on the spot.
Is this a Gloworks sales funnel?
No. Gloworks hosts the community, pays for the room and lends the gear, and gets a livelier film scene in the city out of it. Nobody will pitch you a production package for turning up — and if you do ever want to hire the studio, that conversation lives on the rest of this website, not here.
Can I bring a project I want crewed?
That is exactly what the Crew Call is for. Post what the project is, what you need and what you can offer in return — paid, deferred or a favour to be repaid on someone else's shoot. Be honest about which, and you'll find people.
Are brands, agencies or students welcome?
Students, absolutely. People who work at brands and agencies are welcome as filmmakers — as someone who makes things, not as someone selling to the room. We keep the evenings free of pitching in either direction.
How do I hear about the next meet?
Join through the form on this page and we'll email you before each one. That list is used for community dates and nothing else.
Join
Come and dream with us
Tell us your craft and what you want to make. We'll send you the date of the next screening night — and the crew call board along with it.
The dream is the easy part
Everyone has one. What is rare is a room of people willing to spend a Friday on somebody else's. That room meets in HSR Layout, and there is a seat in it for you.
Gloworks Studios, Sector 2, HSR Layout, Bengaluru, Karnataka 560102.
hello@gloworks.in
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