John Abraham Awards in Signs Film Festival 09

Malayalam Film ‘Bhoomimalayalam’ directed by T.V.Chandran and Marathi film ‘Harishchandrachi Factory’ directed by Paresh Mokashi shared this year’s John Abraham National Awards for feature films in the SIGNS festival of feature and short feature films . The award for the best documentary was won by Umesh Kulkarni’s ‘Three of Us.’ Sidhartha Mukherjee’s ‘100 Watt Bulb’ adjudged short feature film The award for the best cinema of resistance was won by ‘There was a queen’ by Kavitha Pai and Hansa Tapliyal. The best experimental film is Amit Dutta’s ‘Kramasha’. Renowned film maker Adoor Gopalakrishnan gave away the awards in the concluding session of the festival held at Kalabhavan theatre ,Thiruvananthapuram