Final Day of the first edition of
Navi Mumbai International Film Festival
Mumbai, February 2, 2014: With a promise to be back next
year, bigger and better, the final day of the first edition of Navi Mumbai International Film Festival
(NMIFF) unfolded.
After
two days of celebrating cinema, the third final saw movies like Touring talkies, directed by Gajendra
Ahire, Surkhab, directed by Sanjay
Talreja, Echo, directed by Suraj
Nair, and Why Mom, directed by Jay B
Ghadiali among others.
Post
the movie screenings, the celebration started by an award ceremony to
felicitate the talent of established as well as young & independent
filmmakers from across the globe. The jury rewarded Lost House by Nikolay Kotyash
from Russia as
the best film under the student shorts category and Prism by Sandip
Pandurang Mane from India won the second prize under the student shorts
category. Prios
Feher Zold (red , white and green)
by Tarek Raffoul from Lebanon won the first prize for the best
documentary under the students category and [tha-ki-ta-tha] - Talking Drums
by Philipp Holl from Germany won the second prize for the best documentary
under the students category.
Ms.
Swati Kole performed a beautiful Kathak dance at the finale. Captain Sudhir
Singh Chaudhari’s first Ghazal album “Aashnaayee” was launched by Salim
Arif and Ashok Purang. The cast and crew of the movie “W” released the official
trailer of the movie and shared their experience working on this film which
speaks about men of yesterday v/s women of today. This was followed by Armaan
Kohli singing a song from the movie. Arman Kohli also happens to be the
youngest voice for Salman Khan for the movie Jai Ho.
Moving
ahead, the short film The Only Man by Jos Man from Spain was rewarded as the best film
under the professional shorts and the second prize was won by Suitcase
directed by Krishnendu Karar from India. Under
the social awareness category, P.M. Postmortem by Balasaheb Gore & Arun Newaskar from India won the first
prize and Why Mom by Jay B
Ghadiali from India won the second prize under
social awareness category. The best documentary award under the professional
shorts was given to Maliwood Talks by
Sudhir Kasabe from India and We Win or We Die by Matthew Millan from USA won the second
prize for the best documentary under the professional shorts category. Vartul by Santosh Ram from India got a special mention.
The
award for the best feature film was given to Touring Talkies by Gajendra
Ahire
from India and Melina by Demetrio
Casile from Italy won the second prize for the best feature film. Satnaagat
by Raju Parsekar from India got a
special mention under the best feature film category. Satnaagat by Raju Parsekar from India got a special
mention under the best feature film category.
The
cast and crew of the upcoming movie Filmistaan was present at the closing.
Filmistaan
which is scheduled to release on 21st March, 2014 is directed by
Nitin Kakkar, and stars Sharib Hashmi and Gopal Tiway. Acclaimed director Ravi Jadhav
was felicitated by Navi Mumbai International Film Festival for his contribution
to Indian cinema. The award winning director of Natarang, Balgandharva, Balak Palak and the recent box office hit Timepass.
Director
Nagesh Kukunoor was present at NMIFF and said, “Everything starts small and
eventually grows and am sure NMIFF will only grow with every passing year.
Mr.
Sachin Khanna, Founder and Chairman, NMIFF said, “These three days of NMIFF has
been a dream come true. We promise to come back next year with more films on a
much bigger platform. I would like to thank each and every one of you for
making the first edition of NMIFF a great success.”
NMIFF received an overwhelming
support by Mr. Pramod Hindurao, Honourable Mayor of Navi Mumbai Municipal
Corporation Mr Sagar Naik, Ex-MLC of Navi Mumbai and senior NCP leader Mrs
Manda Mhatre and Pro-Chancellor, Dr. DY Patil University, and President, Dr. DY
P Sports Academy, Mr Vijay Patil.
With
over 40 films from 11 countries around the world screened that inspired, the
first edition of Navi Mumbai International Film Festival was truly a grand
success.
Witnessing
day 3 unfold, was a star studded audience which included Nagesh Kukunoor, among Mr. Marc Baschet, Mr. Imtiaz Hussain, Ms.
Rohini Hattanagadi. The core team of NMIFF includes Mr Ashok Purang, Festival
Director, Mr Besharad Mr Ashok Purang,
Festival Director, and Mr Sachin Khanna, Festival Founder and Chairman of
NMIFF, Capt. Samir Walavalkar, Director – Business & Finance, Bisharad
Basnet, Director – IT & Digital Networking, Mr. Salim Arif, Director of
Cultural affairs, NMIFF, Capt
Vaibhav Igatpurikar, and Capt Mohan Shinde.
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