Another edition
ended at the four-day Film Bazaar. The final day of the 13th Film Bazaar was brought to a close with
the announcements of awards to independent filmmakers for projects selected in
the Film Bazaar Recommends and the Work-in-Progress section. These awards
recognised cinematic excellence and aimed at promoting the development of
talent. The recipients were selected by a jury comprising internationally
acclaimed festival programmers/directors, producers and industry executives who
also presented the awards to the winners alongside T C A Kalyani (MD of NFDC)
and representative of the sponsors.
‘Pedro’ by Natesh
Hegde and ‘Swizerland’ by Ajitpal Singh, won the Prasad Lab DI Award +
Moviebuff Appreciation Award from amongst the Work-In-Progress (WIP) Lab films.
The awards were decided by mentors of the WIP Lab which included Philippa
Campbell (Producer), Derek Malcolm (Film Critic), Marco Mueller, (Film Critic
& Historian, Artistic Director of PYIFF, Pingyao) Olivia Stewart
(Producer), LiziGelber (Editor), Jacques Comets (Film Editor). From amongst the
incomplete Film Bazaar Recommends films which have not yet got their DI done
section, the Prasad Lab DI Award + Moviebuff Appreciation Award went to ‘Pinki
Elli?’ (Where Is Pinki?) by Prithvi Konanur. The jury members were Kiki Fung
(Programmer from Hong Kong International Film Festival), Laurence Kardish
(Artistic Director, FilmColumbia), Nashen Moodley (Festival Director, Sydney
Film Festival).
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These awards include
the following for each film: Free DI by Prasad Labs, Two version of DCI DCP
free for a movie by Qube, Rs 2 lakhs worth of trailer promotion at QUBE cinema
theatres (Max 300 theatres) for a movie. Filmmakers will get a Qube Wire
account with wallet worth of USD 500, which can be redeemed during Qube Wire
deliveries. In a happy surprise, it was announced that the three remaining
films in the WIP Lab will also receive DI at 50% discount from Prasad Labs.
The
VKAAO FBR Awards, chosen by an audience vote based on FBR Pitch and views in
the Viewing Room, went to two films – ‘GamakGhar’ by Achal Mishra from amongst
the completed films by a debut director and ‘rk/rkay’ by Rajat Kapoor from
amongst the completed films by a non-debut director. Each of these films won a
certificate from VKAAO and will get a 75% discount on Theatrical Distribution.
This year there were 1116 delegates from 36 countries present. T C A. Kalyani
(MD of NFDC) said, “Film Bazaar is a multilingual, multi-national film market
that gives a platform to diverse voices from across the region. This is clear
from the fact that 268 projects across 30+ languages at various stages of
progress were present in the market under its different sections.”
