The Chota Cinema Centre announced its winners and simultaneously witnessed its closing ceremony in the presence of CEO, Entertainment Society of Goa (ESG), Mr Manoj Srivastava who was also chief guest for the function, vice president, Goa Pradesh Youth Congress (GPYC) and chairman and MD of Mandovi Entertainment, Mr Janardhan Bhandari, MD and CEO of Mandovi Entertainment, Mr Kunal Sagarkar. Aryan Khedekar was also present along with judge for the competition, Victoria Mukherjee Chowgule.
The best film under 5 minutes category was won by Satish Gawas for his film ‘Rakhandaar’. The second place went to Shrinivas Ananthanarayan for ‘Ten’ and the third to Yogesh Kapadi for ‘Jaago Goa.’
The best film under 15 minutes went to Elida Monseratte for ‘Another Life. In the same category the second place went to Rajesh Kerkar for ‘Rooptem’ and the third to Pramod Mahadeshwar for ‘Motherhood’.
In the category of films under 30 minutes ‘Jananee’ by Rima Amarapurkar won the first place, ‘Adnyat’ by Miles Gonsalves, Ashutosh Parvatkar and Atmaram Sawant the second and ‘Money matters’ by Rohan Nazareth the third.
The 1 hour films category was won by Joywin Fernandes for ‘Friends’. The second and third place went to Dnyanesh Moghe for ‘Just a minute’ and Avinash Chari for ‘Nimne Sot’, respectively.
Three filmmaking teams from the Goa College of Arts have worked on three different screenplays all on the same concept. The team members comprising of Ashutosh Parvatkar and Freena Martins from the first team, Atmaram Sawant and Kiran Faterpekar from the second and Miles Goansalves and Abhija Naik from the third. “We are extremely happy. This is our first experience as a team and hopefully, our future is bright,” said students from the Goa College of Arts, unanimously.
“My first film, my first award! I am grateful to Mandovi Entertainment for coming out with such a concept. I’d like to thank my family and my cast and crew,” said Elida Monseratte.
Rima Amarapurkar, director, ‘Jananee’ stated, “If you work to something with sincere effort it pays off.”
Besides these the special awards included Best Editor which was won by Kalidas Satardekar for ‘Wear Helmet Celebrate Life’, Best Animation won by Raviraj Naik for ‘Let The Bond Last Forever’ and Best Cinematographer won by Nancet Marques for ‘My Final Confession’. The winner of Best Concept went to Sunil Naik for ‘Save Women’, followed by Miles Gonsalves for ‘Measure of Life’ and Pushkar Bandodkar for ‘Success’. The Best Actor award went to Rajesh Pednekar for his role in ‘Adnyat’ and the Best Actress award went to Deepa Moghe for
her role in the same movie.
“We will take these films to a bigger screen next time,” said Mr Sagarkar.
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