As with Cannes and other large festivals, the Berlinale now engages in a wide array of long-range projects, including artist residencies, financing initiatives and a so-called Talent Campus, a crash-course academy for emerging filmmakers that runs during the festival.
Early on, Lavasa announced "tie-ups" with Sir Nick Faldo for a golf course and academy, Manchester City Football Club for a football academy and Sir Steve Redgrave for a rowing academy.
The hotel's pride is its championship parkland golf course, golf academy and clubhouse set among mature woodland.
Ultimately, of course, the academy's voting members will decide whether the year's more popular and mainstream offerings make the cut.
Against this backdrop, the 16- to 18-year-olds will study for a two-year associated science degree adapted from the diploma and higher diploma courses the academy runs in Britain, and validated by the University of Central Oklahoma.
Of course these academies might well feel that, unlike Locog's food industry sponsors, they are are at least generating future diabetes, strokes, heart disease and low self-esteem in an unimpeachable cause.
Anele Siwa, 20, is one of 120 students who this week started a one-year course at the academy.
There was also no immediate claim of responsibility for the bombings, which happened as police cadets were attending a training course at the academy.
A 35-year-old widow with eight young children, Hora (she gave only her first name) has a $240-a-month job with the A.N.P. and is now one of 26 women taking a basic training course at the academy in Kabul.
Teterboro was also home to a golf course, a riding academy and a large contingent of Gypsy families, according to a longtime resident, Catherine Watt, who says she was the first person born in the borough (though she politely declines to say exactly when).
Field director Manoj Nair was away completing a course at the academy in Dehradun.
