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MUMBAI:
Nishtha Jain's Lakshmi and Me which had been screened
at the recent IAWRT Film Festival in Delhi, received the Gold
Award for the best documentary while five films received more
than one honours each at the annual awards of the Indian Documentary
Producers Association (IDPA).
The
Gold Award in the Best Short Fiction of a Director category
was received for Lost and Found by Harshwardhan G Kulkarni.
His film Colours of Konkan: MTDL also got three awards:
Excellence in Scriptwriting for an advertising film, Best
Corporate Film for Tailormade Films, and Best cinematography
for Navneet Misser.
Our
Family by K P Jayasankar and Dr Anjali Monteiro received
the Gold for sound design (fiction and non-fiction) and script-writing
(fiction and non-fiction) and Silver for editing. Lost
and Found got the Silver for Navneet Misser for cinematography.
The
animation film Manpasand by Dhvani Desai, based on
a Panchantra tale which received the Gold Remi at the recent
41st Houston International Film Festival 2008 in the United
States, was given the Silver Award in the Best Short Fiction
of a Director Category.
The
Power of Five by Vijay Singh Tomar received two awards:
Gold for Excellence in Editing and Silver for Best Corporate
Film.
Harvlele
Indradhanush (The Lost Rainbow) by Dhiraj Meshram received
the Gold for Best Short fiction film and Silver for Excellence
in Script writing (fiction and non-fiction). Vijay Singh Tomar
also got the Silver for Editing for 3 Lives. Shivendra
Singh got the Silver for best commercial for two films: Havells
CFL Rimpoche and Greenply Courtroom.
The
other Gold Awards are: Excellence in Sound Design (advertising)
to R Anand for Sony Pix, best public service film is ‘The
staircase’ by George Mangalath Thomas,
Best
commercial is VIP Underwear Adjust by Shivendra Singh,
excellence in animation (fiction and non-fiction) for ‘Ostrich’
by Priya Kuriyan, excellence in animation (advertising) shared
by Ooga Booga and Ultratech Cement by Vaibhav
Studio and Aara (The Fix) respectively, best cell story Memory
Space by Dr K P Jayasankar, excellence in short fiction
(students) to the Shop that sold Everythingby Abhyuday
Khaitan, documentary (students) to Chasing Angelina Jolie
by Saurav Dey, cinematography (fiction and non-fiction)
to Hope Dies Last in War by Ranjan Palit and S Chkalingam,
and editing to Tanvir Ka Safarnama by Arjun Gourisaria
and Sukanya Ghosh.
The
IDPA-ONGC Gold Award for the Best Film in Environment went
to Kali Bein (The Black River) by Surendra Manan and
the Silver went to Death Knell the Nilgri's biosphere by
Maya Jaideep & K G Vasuki.
The
Silver Awards went to: Best Documentary Minukku by
M R Rajan; Excellence in Cinemarography (advertising) to Tata
Indigo – XL by Ravi K Chandran’; sound design
(advertising) for The Phenomenon by Paul Jacob; script-writing
(advertising) to Little Boy by Deepti Chawla; public
service to Help Age by Bappaditya Roy Pictures; animation
(Fiction and Non-Fiction) shared by Shadi ka Ghoda by
Vivekananda Roy Ghatak and Myths About You by Nandita
Jain; Cell story to Anti-Smoking by Aditya Sam Abraham’;
short fiction (students) to Dead End by Shashank Khaitan;
documentary (students) for Casting Shadow by Nayantara
Kotian; and sound design (fiction and non-fiction) by Poomaram
Or A Flowering Tree by Vipin Vijay.
Certificates
of Merit went to Dr K P Jayasankar and Dr Anjali Monteiro;
Vipin Vijay; Rajendra Janglay; and for ‘Reprise’
to Kush, Shubhangi Singh, and Saeed Vahidi.
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