The National Film Development Corporation – NFDC has announced the list of projects selected for its first ever Children's Screenwriters' Lab and the Romance Screenwriters' Lab 2015.<br/><br/>In a statement issued from Mumbai, NDFC said "Piku" writer Juhi Chaturvedi, "Dum Laga Ke Haisha" director Sharat Kataria and Habib Faisal will mentor the six finalists of Romance Screenwriters' Lab while the projects selected for Children's Screenwriters' Lab will be mentored by Mieke de Jong, Rasmus Horskj'r and Anna Tamara Bos.<br/><br/>All the participants will get an opportunity to explore their stories through one-on-one and group sessions with their mentors. The mentoring process will culminate at Film Bazaar, Goa, where the participants will be given an opportunity to pitch the projects to prospective producers. <br/><br/>NFDC's managing director, Ms. Nina Lath Gupta said there is a huge paucity of content for kids in the feature film space. She added that it is natural for NDFC to take up this issue given the institute's focus on initiating development work in areas where there is a perceived vacuum.<br/><br/>The projects selected for Children's Screenwriters' Lab are "Kabuliwala" by Soumitra Ranade, "A Lottery Ticket" by Sagarika Banik, "The Adventures of Kaka and Kaki" by Shreyas Govindarajan Thathachari, "The Girl with the Gents Bicycle" by Ravi S Alok, "The Mahout" by Sharmila Sankar and "The Pink Walls of My School" by Girish Jotwani.<br/><br/>The six finalists of NFDC India Romance Screenwriters' Lab 2015 are "Chitrangada: Body, Speech and Mind" by Abhyuday Khaitan, "Fly Me to the Moon" by Vivek Raju, "Matsyagandha" by Pooja Gupta, "Tatevik" by Samimitra Das, "The List" by Varun Oberoi and "You've Been Pinged" by Smita Kapoor.