The five day
long eighth edition of the International documentary and short film festival of
Kerala (8thIDSFFK) concluded with the award announcement and distribution in
the closing ceremony.
While inaugurating
the closing ceremony Thiruvanchoor Radhakrishnan, Minister for Cinema assured more
awards in various film categories and a hike in cash prize from the next edition
onwards. The Minister distributed the awards for the best film across the
different categories in the presence of K. Muraleedharan, T. Rajeev Nath , PC
Vishnunath, Rani George IAS, Joshy Mathew, Ramchandrababu Aryadan Shoukath, and
S Rajendran Nair.
‘Floating
Life’ directed by Haobam Paban Kumar won the Best Documentary award. ‘Man
and the Ocean’ directed by Tanumoy Bose won the short documentary section. The
best long documentary award carried a cash prize of Rs. 1 lakh while the best
short documentary award carried a cash prize of Rs. 50,000/- and a certificate.
Sanju
Surendran’s ‘Kapila’ and Joshy Joseph’s ‘A Poet, A City and A Footballer” was
given a special mention by the Jury from Long Documentary category.
Atanu
Mukherjee’s ‘The Gatekeeper’ won the prize for the best short fiction film,
which has a cash prize of Rs.50,000 and a certificate. Niranjan Kumar Kujur’s
‘Going Home’ and Karuna Bansode’s ‘Afternoon Lullaby’ got special mention in
this category.
‘Theiyye’
won the award for the best music video which was directed by Arun Sukumar. The
film won a cash prize of R.s 25,000 and a certificate. ‘Beautiful Grey’ by Kim
Jung Hyun got a special mention in this category.
There is no
best film in the campus film section. But the Jury gave a special mention for
two campus films viz ‘Way Home’ directed by Avinash Kumar, Prahas Nair and
Sajeev Kumar MS and ‘Reflection’ directed by Balu BA, Sham Mohammed and Veeresh
I. V.
Irom Maipak ,the
cinematographer of the film ‘Floating Life’ was selected for the ‘Navroz
Contractor Award carrying a cash prize of Rs. 15,000 and certificate, for the
Best Cinematographer, instituted by eminent cinematographer Navroze Contractor.
Audrius Stonys began his creative activities in the last years of the Soviet Empire. His film Earth of the Blind received European Film Academy award “FELIX” as the Best European Documentary film. He is member of European Film Academy and European Documentary Network. Audrius thinks that the documentary film has not been born out of the desire to inform. Filmography Open the Door to him Who Comes, Baltic Way, Earth of the Blind, Apostle of ruins, Antigravitation , Flying over Blue Field, Harbour, Three Minutes after the Big Bang, Flight over Lithuania or 510 seconds of silence, Alone, The Last Car, Countdown, Ukuukai, The Bell, Four Steps.
R V Ramani, born in Mumbai, is a graduate in Physics from Mumbai University. He worked as a photojournalist in Mumbai and later graduated from the Film and TV Institute of India, Pune, with specialization in Motion Picture Photography. After the course he moved to Chennai in late 80’s and worked as a Cinematographer. Today he is one of the leading documentary filmmakers in India, who has established a unique style of his own, making independent impressionistic documentaries, which has found recognition both in India and abroad. He has travelled widely with his films and his films and Retrospectives have been presented in many International Film Festivals.
Ashoke Viswanathan a mathematics graduate from St. Xavier’s College, Kolkata, is a post graduate in film direction from the Film and Television Institute of India. He had directed more than 150 films and television programmes including feature films, documentaries, tele films, music videos, and tele-serials. He has won two National Awards and one International Award. His films have been shown at the Commonwealth Film Festival, Manchester, the Pyongyang International Film Festival, and the Dhaka International Film Festival. He is a faculty at SRFTI and Visiting Professor at Film and Television Institute of India, Pune, at the Dept. of Cinema and Theatre, Tufts University, Boston, Dept. of Film Studies, Jadavpur University, and Dept. of Film Studies, St. Xavier’s College, Kolkata.
