{"id":702,"date":"2014-07-23T15:43:34","date_gmt":"2014-07-23T15:43:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thiruvananthapuramfirst.in\/?p=702"},"modified":"2014-07-23T15:48:04","modified_gmt":"2014-07-23T15:48:04","slug":"chronicles-of-a-temple-painter-bags-award-for-best-long-documentary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thiruvananthapuramfirst.in\/?p=702","title":{"rendered":"‘Chronicles of a Temple Painter’ Bags Award for Best Long Documentary"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Shravan Katikaneni, director of \u2018Chronicles of a Temple Painter\u2019, receiving the award from Minister Thiruvanchoor Radhakrishnan. Sculptor Kanayi Kunhiraman is also seen | B P DEEPU<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Thiruvananthapuram \u00a0:<\/strong><\/p>\n

The documentary \u2018Chronicles of a Temple Painter\u2019 directed by Shravan Katikaneni bagged the award for the Best Long Documentary at the seventh edition of the International Documentary and Short Film Festival of Kerala (IDSFFK 2014) which concluded here on Tuesday.<\/p>\n

The 52-minute documentary discusses the life of a Hindu temple painter and his wife who rescued a four-year-old Muslim girl and took care of her as their own daughter. The award was presented by Cinema Minister Thiruvanchoor Radhakrishnan at the Kairali Theatre here. The award comprised a purse of Rs 1 lakh and a certificate.<\/p>\n

In short documentary category, \u2018Babai\u2019 directed by Kavita Datir and Amit Sonawane won the award which carries a cash prize of Rs 50,000 along with a certificate.<\/p>\n

The awardees were selected by a jury comprising Hong Hyosook, Susie Tharu and Harsh Mander.<\/p>\n

While addressing the gathering, after inaugurating the closing ceremony, Minister Thiruvanchoor Radhakrishnan said that the State Government would take an initiative to promote Malayalam movies to an international-level.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe movies which can help promote social justice should be made in the state. That will affect the society in a positive manner. The government will take an initiative to support the attempts, if filmmakers come forward with such movies,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

The Minister said that these types of film festivals inspire filmmakers to come up with good quality movies.Thiruvanchoor said that more \u2018environmental- science\u2019 movies would be included in the next festival.<\/p>\n

\u2018Saltwater\u2019 directed by MA students of SJCC, bagged the award for best campus film. Ammu S Rajashekharan, Anju S Raj, Mahisha Mohan, Naithik Mathew Eapen, Remo Benjamin Peter, Remya Mathew, Anand Ajayaghosh, Anoop T M, Augustin Veets, Krishal Janardhanan, Sarath and Saritha Balan Pillai were the people behind the camera of this movie.<\/p>\n

\u2018You are Rot\u2019 directed by Christo Tomy won the award for the Best Music Video. The award comprises a cash prize of Rs 25,000 and a certificate.<\/p>\n

Best Animation Film Award was bagged by Gitanjali Rao for \u2018True Love Story\u2019. The award comprises Rs 25,000 and a certificate.<\/p>\n

\u2018Tamaash\u2019 directed by Satyanshu and Devanshu Singh bagged the award for Best Short Fiction. The award comprises a cash prize of Rs 50,000 and a certificate.<\/p>\n

\u2018Fishy Magic\u2019 by Ektara Collective won the special mention award in short fiction category. Special mention in short documentary category was won by \u2018Trash\u2019 directed by Sougata Bhattacharya.Two special mention awards were given in Long Documentary category to \u2018Candles in the Wind\u2019 by Kavita Bahl and Nandan Saxena and \u2018Goonga Pehelwan\u2019 by Vivek Chowdhary, Prateek Gupta and Mit Jain.Best Documentary Cinematographer Award was awarded to Saumyananda Sahi for the film \u2018Rangbhoomi\u2019. The award comprises a certificate and Rs 50,000. The award was instituted by cinematographer Navroze Contractor.<\/p>\n

Famous sculptor Kanayi Kunhiraman was the chief guest at the function. State Chalachithra Academy Vice-chairman Gandhimathi Balan, secretary Rajendran Nair, film director Joshy Mathew, festival artistic director Beena Paul and jury members were present. Earlier, 27 films were screened on Tuesday.<\/p>\n

source: http:\/\/www.newindianexpress.com \/ The New Indian Express \/ Home> Cities> Thiruvananthapuram \/ by Express News Service \/ July 23rd, 2014<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Thiruvananthapuram \u00a0: The documentary \u2018Chronicles of a Temple Painter\u2019 directed by Shravan Katikaneni bagged the award for the Best Long Documentary at the seventh edition of the International Documentary and Short Film Festival of Kerala (IDSFFK 2014) which concluded here on Tuesday. The 52-minute documentary discusses the life of a Hindu temple painter and his … Continue reading ‘Chronicles of a Temple Painter’ Bags Award for Best Long Documentary<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-702","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-artsculture-entertainment"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thiruvananthapuramfirst.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/702","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thiruvananthapuramfirst.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thiruvananthapuramfirst.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thiruvananthapuramfirst.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thiruvananthapuramfirst.in\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=702"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.thiruvananthapuramfirst.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/702\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":708,"href":"https:\/\/www.thiruvananthapuramfirst.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/702\/revisions\/708"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thiruvananthapuramfirst.in\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=702"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thiruvananthapuramfirst.in\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=702"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thiruvananthapuramfirst.in\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=702"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}