Jury Award for 'Devi' and 'An Way to Resilience' in 14th Film South Asia
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'Six-A Akash Ganga' has become the best film at the Film South Asia Festival. The film directed by Nirmal Chandra Dhandriyal won the 'Ram Bahadur Trophy' at the closing ceremony of the festival held at Yalmaya Center in Patandhoka. The film also received a prize of two thousand dollars along with the trophy.
The 'Film South Asia Samman', started this year, was awarded to India's famous filmmaker Anand Patbardhan. His film 'The World is Family' also won the 'Documentary Stalwart Award' at the festival.
Similarly, Jury Award was received by two films. The award was given to Suveena Shrestha and Chardi Kala's 'Devi' and Prateek Shekhar's 'An Way to Resilience'. This year's 'Best Student Film' award was won by Samishka Mathur's 'Hello Guys'. The film also received five hundred dollars. Likewise, the award for 'Tarek Masood Best Debut Film' has been given to Muntaha Amin's 'Sees in the Air'. Its prize money is one thousand dollars.
Salman Javid, Vivek Singh Sangwan and Satya Amwastha's 'A Flaming Forest' won the award for the best film on climate change. 47 films from nine countries were screened at the 14th edition of Film South Asia which lasted for four days. Workshops on various topics were also conducted at the festival. Famous Indian director Kabir Khan was the chief guest in a workshop on film direction.
