‘Prawns’, a
short film directed by Swapnil
Shetty, has won the Best Film and best Cinematography award at the 5th Goa
Short Film Festival 2018. The awards were presented in presence of Sahitya
Academy award winning writer, Dr Hema Nayak, filmmaker Anil Kakade, senior film
critic Shrikant Kulkarni, Subhashchandra Jadhav, President of Akhil Bharatiya
Marathi Film Corporation Meghraj Rajbhosale, Director of Indian Motion Pictures
Producers Association Vikas Patil.
‘Collateral Damage’, directed by Aban Devans, won the Best
Screenplay and Second Best Film Award.
Vikrant Badarekha received the Best Director prize for the short
film ‘Drainage’. Dave Deohans got the second Best Director award for his
Whistling Woods International’s short film ‘The Hideout’. Best Creative Concept
award was been bagged by Dharma Wankhede’s ‘Fugga’, which also won the Best
Editing award by Bharat Wankhede. Dr Mansoor Yezdi’s ‘Cafe Irani Chai’ was
honoured as the Best Documentary of the festival.
Professor
at the University of New South Wales Martha Becker, documentary filmmaker
Sandhya Sundaram and member of Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Science
worked as the jury for the festival.
