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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Taiwanese film I Can’t Live Without You walked away with the Golden Peacock award for the best film at the 40th International Film Festival of India (IFFI), which concluded at Dinananath Mangueshkar Kala Academy, at Campal today.

The film is directed by Leon Dai and produced by Chan Wan Qi. The Golden Peacock award carries a citation and an award of Rs 40 lakh, which is shared by the director and the producer.

South Korean Director Ounie Leconte bagged the Silver Peacock best director award for her French-South Korean film A Brand New Life. Leconte pursed a cheque of Rs 15 lakh and a citation.

Georgian filmmaker George Ovashvili for his film The Other Bank bagged the Special Jury award of Rs 15 lakh.

Malayalam actor Mammootty was the chief guest for the award ceremony, which was also attended by Union Minister of State for Information and broadcasting S Jagatrakshan, Governor Dr Shivendra Singh Sidhu, Chief Minister Digamabar Kamat, Union Joint Secretary for I & B Mr Pyarelal and Goa Chief Secretary Sanjay Srivastava, DFF Director S M Khan, ESG CEO Manoj Srivastava and others

The above films were chosen by a five-member competition jury out of 15 entries in the Competition Section from Argentina, Australia, Bangladesh, Brazil, China/UK, Georgia/Kazakhstan, Iran, Mexico, Peru, Philippines, South Korea/France, Sri Lanka and Taiwan including two films from India.

The competition jury was headed by the noted Director from Brazil Joao Batista de Andrade. Other members of the jury were Kenichi Okubu (Japan), Jean-Michel Frodon (France), Ms Sarika (India) and Vic Sarin (Canada).

The Festival concluded today with the screening of the Spanish film The Broken Embraces, directed by Pedro Almodovar and a cultural programme.

The 11-day extravaganza, which began on November 23, with the screening of He Ping’s “Wheat” witnessed screening of 300 films from 47 countries, which was a real treat to watch. In the international section, a total of 145 films were shown in 18 categories.

These included 54 in Cinema of the World, 15 in the Competition, five in the Focus on Latin America. And 23 in the Country Focus. Films from Croatia, Estonia, Italy and Poland were screened under Country Focus section.

The films of Gurinder Chadha, Manoel de Oliviera and Nonjee Nimibutr were screened in Retrospectives Section. Four films were shown in Film India Worldwide.Besides there were special tributes to Joao Batista and Ronald Raber.

Entertainment Society of Goa CEO Manoj Srivastava’s attempts to rekindle the magic of yesteryear cinema via a fashion show displaying the dress styles of heroines through the years, failed miserably on Monday. It was a brilliant idea that could have been the highlight of the entire International Film Festival of India (Iffi), but was unsuccessful because of poor implementation.

Most of the costumes on display were bad. The show started with Devika Rani. And nobody in their wildest dreams would have imagined she wore a backless blouse, the kind worn by Sharmila Tagore in Evening In Paris!

The models danced to yesteryear melodies and while most of the music score selected was good, most of the dancers, barring a few, had two left feet. Only the dancer who re-enacted a Rekha number from Umrao Jaan had grace.

Coming back to the styles of display, the costume designer and show designer jumped from Madhubala directly to Sharmila Tagore. Sadhana, who made famous a certain French hairstyle that till date is called the ‘Sadhana cut’ in small-time parlours, was completely forgotten. In fact, Sadhana’s churidars and tight kurtas were a style statement of that era.

The Sharmila Tagore get up too was not up to mark and the song selected-Roop tera mastana-had nothing to do with the costume she was wearing. Anwar Ali dancing with the model to brother Mehmood’s ‘O meri maina’ was a good touch.

Madhuri Dixit was represented by the ‘Dhak dhak’ song. A great idea, but, the model preferred to cover her back with her hair rather than moving it sexily like Madhuri. And they forgot the path-breaking Urmila Matondkar of Rangeela fame, preferring to jump directly to Rani Mukherjee.

It was probably that time was running out or that they realized that the show was just not happening. There was a sudden visible rush and the last couple of girls almost ran on stage. One didn’t even make her individual entry but walked the ramp in the last encore.

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