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MUMBAI: The Mahindra Indo-American Arts Council
Film Festival culminated its five-day long festival
of screenings and events.
The
winners for the eight award categories were
announced at the Awards Ceremony, following
the red carpet premiere of The Last Lear
at the Asia Society.
The
MIAAC Film Festival screened 50 films which
spotlighted the established and emerging South
Asian independent filmmakers.
The festival which included films from several
countries including India, Kuwait, France, United
Kingdom, USA and Canada also
saw a red-carpet screening of Sanjay Leela Bhansali's
Saawariya.
A
key initiative of this year's festival was 'Script
Link', a two day program designed to foster
relationships between the film industry executives
and 14 writers of South Asian descent.
This first edition of Script Link provided the
selected writers the opportunity to interact
with potential investors, development executives,
producers and agents such as Sony Pictures Classics,
Magnolia Pictures and GreenStreet Films in over
200 meetings.
Following
are the eight awards and the winners:
- Chandrika
Tandon Best Film Award: Manorama Six Feet
Under directed by Navdeep Singh.
- Indira
Mahindra Best Director Award: Rituparno Ghosh
for Dosar.
- Nationwide
Actor Award: Danny Denzongpa for Frozen
- Dina
Kothari Best Actress Award: Konkana Sen Sharma
for Dosar.
- Analog
Digital Inc. Best Documentary Award: India
Untouched directed by Stalin K.
- Metropolis
Film Lab Best Short Award: Shanu Taxi
directed by Vasant Nath.
- Verizon
People's Choice Award: Verizon presented the
People's Choice Award to Love Story
by Amit Gupta.
- The
Best Film Jury decided to give a special mention
and award to Frozen directed by Shivajee
Chandrabhushan.
In addition to the cash awards, Time Warner
Cable presented each of the winners Award
Certificates for 24 free movies each on BODVOD,
the South Asian channel.
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