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SIGNS
2007
WINNERS OF JOHN ABRAHAM NATIONAL AWARDS 2007
| BEST
DOCUMENTARY |
Bhultir Khero
Chronicle of an Amnesiac
Bengali/2007/28’
Director: Anirban Datta
Script : Anilban Datta
Producer: Amalan Datta, Ryota Kotani
Cinematography: Amalan Datta
Editing: Sankha
Sound: Shubho Deep, Sen Gupta, Sanjai Saha
Music: Padip Chatarji
The film meets a few characters at the transit to nonexistence. The film traces these characters amidst the signs of the changing city, people and progress. The film looks through the viewfinder of a country old bellow camera. A monkey-man walks down a long flyover with his monkeys.
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| BEST SHORT FICTION |
Vellappokkathil
In Deluge
Malayalam / 2007 / 25"
Director , Producer : Jayaraj
Cinematography: M. J. Radhakrishnan
Editing : Rahul
Sound : Hari
Script : Ananthapadmanabhan
Music : Trichur Ananthapadmanabhan
Based on the well known short story VELLAPPOKKATHIL by Thakazhi Sivasankara Pillai, the film portrays the last moments of a dog abandoned and isolated on the roof of a sinking hut, during a huge flood.
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| DOCUMENTARY - SPECIAL MENTION OF THE JURY |
Our Family
Tamil/2007/56’
Director: K.P Jayasankar and Anjali Monteiro
Producer: K.P Jayasankar and Anjali Monteiro
Cinematography: K.P Jayasankar
Editing:K.P Jayasankar and Anjali Monteiro
Sound: Elangovan. R
Script: : K.P Jayasankar and Anjali Monteiro
The film brings together excerpts from Nirvanam ,a one person’s performance by Pritham K. Chakravarthi and a family of 3 generations of trans gendered female subjects Asha, Seetha and Dhana, who are bound together by ties of adoption.
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| SHORT FICTION - SPECIAL MENTION OF THE JURY |
Sethu
No Dialogue / 2007/ 10’
Director : Sanghamitra Karmakar,
Shyamal Karmakar
Producer : Sanghamitra Karmakar
Cinematography: Gnana Shekar
Editing : Atanu Mukherjee
Sound : Dhiman Karmakar
Script : Shyamal Karmakar
Music : Chiradip Dasgupta
Men, women, bus, taxi, car, bicycle, motor bike, rickshaw – everyone is on the run - caught in Brownian Motion- to reach somewhere. Their motion is stagnated every time a train pierces through them… and again starts madness. Soma, a five year old minuscule girl is caught in this design of civilization, enjoys every bit of it.
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| BEST STUDENT VIDEO |
Trip
Silent/2007/8’
Director: Emmannel Quindo Palo
Producer: Film and Television Institute of India
Cinematography: Kaushik Mandal
Editing: Manoj Kannoth
Sound: Anil R.
Script : Emmannel Quindo Palo
Music: Yoyoma
Trip is about the impression of a first-time train traveler on a long-distance train in India. The exhilarating experience was marred by the sight of passengers throwing their thrash from the train’s windows and doors all throughout the journey. The beauty of the Indian landscape is scarred by non-biodegradable trash.
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| BEST STUDENT VIDEO - SPECIAL MENTION OF THE JURY |
Mom N Dad
English/2007/19’
DirectorS: Nina Panemanglor, Yashaswini S R, Kavitha Carneiro
Producer: Social Communist Media Department
Cinematography: Chinmay Shalya
Editing: Niraj Voralia
Sound: Priyanka Bhuyan
Script: : Kavita Carneiro
Music: Riddhi d’ Cruz
Kavita Carneiro is the 21 year old daughter of Dolly and Edward Carneiro , a hearing impaired couple. The film is a process of understanding their relationship, its simplicity and reaffirms her faith and love in the family.
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| CINEMA OF RESISTANCE |
Mahua Memoirs
Kue, Kondadvran
Telugu/Oriya/Chatisgarhi/2007/82’
Director: Vinod Raja
Producer: Ashok Haridas.
Cinematography: Vinod Raja/Viswanath
Editing: Atul Gupta
Sound: Harikumar Pillai, Jayanth Pradhan
Script: Madhu Bhooshan/ Vinod Raja
In Mahua Memoirs, Saloo, the bard and Thirku Baiga take us on a journey through the lives of the many adivasi communities who live in the mountain tracts and forest of he Eastern Ghats across the states of Andhrapradesh, Orissa, Chattisgarh and Jharkhand. This story unfolds both their life visions and struggles against the merciless mining, particularly over the past two decades, mining that grabbing their lands and lives.
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| CINEMA OF RESISTANCE - SPECIAL MENTION OF THE JURY |
Goddesses
Tamil/2007/45’
Director: Leena Manimekhalai
Producer: C.Jerrold
Cinematography: Sunny Joseph
Editing: Thankaraj
Sound: Santhana Nambi
Script: Leena Manimekhalai
Goddesses is the story of three ordinary women, who live extra ordinary lives, surviving darkest of times and gone against societies norms, to live and work according to the rules they have set for themselves.
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