India-born Gitanjali Thapa gets performance award at LA Film Festival

India-born Gitanjali Thapa gets performance award at LA Film Festival

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NEW DELHI: Ryan McGarry‘s emergency room documentary Code Black and Janis Nords‘ coming-of-age drama Mother, I Love You have won the DirecTV Documentary and Narrative Awards at the Los Angeles Film Festival 2013.

Audience Award winners include Short Term 12, American Revolutionary: The Evolution of Grace Lee Boggs and Sony Pictures Classics‘ Wadjda. Awards for Short Film and Music Video were also given at the closing ceremony after the 11-day Festival.

The Festival closed with The Way, Way Back, and the cast and crew - including Steve Carell, Toni Collette, Allison Janney, AnnaSophia Robb, directors Nat Faxon and Jim Rash.