The 18th Jio Mami Mumbai Film Festival-David Chou's Diamond Island won Golden Gateway Award in International Competition.

The Jio Mami 18th Mumbai Film Festival has come to a close last evening. The ceremony which took place at Bal Gandharva Rangmandir, Bandra, saw a galaxy of  stars and celebrities attending the function .Winners under various categories were announced. 

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Full list of Winners :

INTERNATIONAL COMPETITION

Golden Gateway Award - David Chou's Diamond Island.

Silver Gateway Award - Ralitza Petrova's Godless.

The Jury Grand Prize Natalia Almada's Everything Else.

Special Mention for Political Commitment of the Film - When Two Worlds Collide.

The Special Mention - Macarena Arias's Alba.

INDIA GOLD

Golden Gateway Award - Haobam Paban Kumar's The Lady of the Lake.

Silver Gateway Award - Satish Babusenan and Santosh Babusenan's The Narrow Path.

Jury Grand Prize - Aicheng Jai Dohutia's The Hidden Corner.

Special Mention - Deepak Sampath's Autohead

Special Mention - Shirley Abraham and Amit Madhesiya's Cinema Travellers.

DIMENSIONS MUMBAI

Golden Gateway Award - Santosh Ganpat Kamble for Mumbai's Mahuwa.

Silver Gateway Award - Tabu Kaariya's Ajeeb Dastan Hai Yeh.

Special Mention (Dimensions Mumbai) Award - Yashwardhan Goswami's Bombai.

HALF TICKET

Golden Gateway Award (Feature) – Laha Mebow's Hang in There, Kids!

The Silver Gateway Award (Feature) – Evi Goldbrunner and Joachim Dollhopf's At Eye Level.

Special mention (Feature) – Mrinmoy Mondal, Shupratim Bhol's Colours of Innocence.

The Golden Gateway Award (Short) – Vincent Patar and Stephane Aubier's A Town Called Panic: Back to School.'

The Silver Gateway Award (Short) - Nina Sabnani's We Make Images.

Special Mention (Short) - Pedro Paulo De Andrade's The Best Sound in the World.

OTHER AWARDS

Oxfam Award for Best Film on Gender Equality - Alankrita Shrivastava's Lipstick Under my Burkha

Mastercard Best India Female Filmmaker 2016 Award - Konkona Sensharma for A Death in the Gunj.

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Audience Choice Award - The Salesman by Asghar Farhadi.

Young Critics Choice Award - Shirley Abraham and Amit Madhesiya's Cinema Travellers.

BOOK AWARDS

Special Mention for Excellence in Writing on Cinema (Hindi) - Naye Daur Ka Naya Cinema by Priyadarshan.

Special Mention for Excellence in Writing on Cinema (English) - Kanan Devi: The First Superstar of Indian Cinema by Mekhala Sengupta

Excellence in Writing on Cinema Award (Hindi) - Bhartiye Cinema Ka Itihas by Anil Bhargava.

Excellence in writing on Cinema Award (English) - The World of Hrishikesh Mukherjeeby Jai Arun Singh.

47TH IFFI-2016 -Indian Panorama Feature and Non-Feature Films announced

Indian Panorama films ,to be screened in Goa at 47^th International Film Festival of India, 2016 have been finalized.. 

S. No.	Title of the Film	Language	Director
1.	Roopanthram	Malayalam	M B Padmakumar
2.	Harikatha Prasanga	Kannada	Ananya Kasaravalli
3.	Natsamrat - Asa Nat Hone Nahi	Marathi	Mahesh Manjrekar
4.	Loktak Lairembee	Manipuri	Haoban Paban Kumar
5.	Bastu Shaap	Bengali	Kaushik Ganguly
6.	Veeram Macbeth	Malayalam	Jayaraj Rajasekharan Nair
7.	Ekk Albela	Marathi	Shekhar Sartandel
8.	Kaadu Pookkunna Neram	Malayalam	Dr.Biju
9.	U Turn	Kannada	Pawan Kumar
10.	Ishti	Sanskrit	G. Prabha
11.	Shankhachil	Bengali	Gautam Ghose
12.	Irudhi Sutru	Tamil	Sudha Kongara
13.	Pinky Beauty Parlour	Hindi	Akshay Singh
14.	Mantra	English	Nicholas Kharkongor
15.	Ringan	Marathi	Makaramd Mane
16.	Onaatah	Khasi	Pradip Kurbah
17.	Chitrokar	Bengali	Saibal Mitra
18.	Sahaj Paather Gappo Colours of Innocence	Bengali	Manas Mukul Pal
19.	K Sera Sera	Konkani	Rajeev Shinde
20.	Allama	Kannada	T S Nagabharna
21.	Sairat	Marathi	Nagraj Manjule
22.	Dikchow Banat Palaax	Assamese	Sanjib Sabhapandit
23.	Baahubali (Best  Feature Film in 63rd NFA)	Telugu	S.S Rajamouli
24.	Bajirao Mastani	Hindi	Sanjay Leela Bhansali
25.	Airlift	Hindi	Raja Krishna Menon
26.	Sultan	Hindi	Ali Abbas Jaffar
Non-fature films selected.

 

	Title of the film	Director’s name	Language
11	The wind in the Maruwa	Sankhajit Biswas	Bengali
2.	Taandav	Devashish Makhija	Hindi
3.	Paywat	Mithun Chandra Chowdhary	Marathi
4.	In return, Just a Book	Shiny Jacob Benjamin	Malayalam
5.	Gudh	Saurav Rai	Nepali
6.	Cecilia	Pankaj Johar	English
7.	Guns and Guitars – a musical travelogue	Bidyut Kotoky	English
8.	Randu Kurippukal	Gireesh Kumar.K	Malayalam
9.	Gods in Shackles	Sangita Iyer	English
10.	Memories of a forgotten war	Utpal Borpujari	English
11.	Ima Sabitri	Bobo KH	Manipuri
12.	Earth Crusader	Shabnam Sukhdev	English
13.	Bachchha Saheb	Saikat Sekhareswar Ray	Bengali
14.	Ormayude Athirvarambukal	Sudesh Balan	Malayalam
15.	Chaukat	Umesh Mohan Bagade	Marathi
16.	Edpa Kana	Niranjan Kumar Kujur	Hindi
17.	Sabin Alun	Altaf Mazid	Karbi (Assam)
18.	Samann	Billu Paul	Haryanvi
19.	Daayra	Sonia Saharan	Haryanvi
20.	Daaravtha	Nishant Roy Bombarde	Marathi

The Feature Film Jury constituted of the following Members:

                   Rajendra Singh Babu(Chairman)

·        Rama Vij, Producer and Director

·        Arup Manna, Director

·        C. V. Reddy, Producer and Director

·        Girish Mohite, Producer and Director

·        Dr. K. Puttaswamy, Writer

·        N. Krishnakumar, Producer and Director

·        Sabyasachi Mohapatra, Filmmaker

·        Sanjay Pawar, Director and Columnist

·        Satinder Mohan, Critic and Journalist

·        Swapan Mullick, Journalist and Film Critic

·        Uday Shankar Pani, Writer and Filmmaker

·        Shri Ahathian, Producer and Director

 The Jury has recommended Sanskrit film ISHTI Directed  G. Prabha as the Opening Feature Film of Indian Panorama 2016.

The Non-Feature films Jury chaired by well-known documentary filmmaker Arvind Sinha has picked 21 films out of 198 eligible entries. The 7 Members Jury took 15 days to finalize the selections. The Jury constituted of the following Members :

        Aarti Srivastava, Documentary Filmmaker

        Abhijit Mazumdar, Documentary Filmmaker

        Gautam Benegal, Animation Filmmaker

        Madhureeta Anand, Film writer and Director

        RONEL HAOBAM, Documentary Filmmaker

        Prof. Suresh Sharma, Film Critic and Documentary Filmmaker

Ima Sabitri directed by Bobo KH has been chosen as the Opening Film by the Non-Feature Film Jury.  

News Courtesy:PIB