Amdavad Ma Famous
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| Directed by | Hardik Mehta |
| Produced by | Akanksha Tewari, Arya A. Menon |
| Starring | Zaid |
| Cinematography | Piyush Puty and Harshbir Singh |
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| Country | India |
| Language | Gujarati, Hindi |
Amdavad Ma Famous (Gujarati: અમદાવાદમાં ફેમસ, English:Famous in Ahmedabad) is a documentary film about kite flying festival in Ahmedabad, India. The film is directed by Vadodara based director Hardik Mehta and produced by Akanksha Tewari and Arya A. Menon. The film was filmed with help of cinematographer Piyush Puty and Harshbir Singh.[1][2][3] The film received the National Film Award for Best Non-Feature Film at 63rd National Film Awards for 2015.[4]
Plot
Set during the kaleidoscopic backdrop of Uttrayan, the kite-flying festival in India, ‘Amdavad Ma Famous’, witnesses the transformation of an 11-year-old Zaid from a boy next door to an aggressive and a passionate kite-runner, till he comes across a challenge that threatens to keep him away from the one thing he loves.
Awards
The film received the National Film Award for Best Non-Feature Film at 63rd National Film Awards for 2015.[4][1][2] The film has also won the best short documentary award at the 2015 Budapest International Documentary Film Festival. It was nominated for the prestigious Golden Award and won the Jury Prize for Best Short Documentary at the Al Jazeera International Documentary Festival, Doha, Qatar in 2015.[3]
The film also won the Golden Conch for Best Documentary (Up to 60 minutes) and Best Editor (Hardik Mehta) in the National competition at the 14th Mumbai International Film Festival in 2016. At 63rd Belgrade Film Festival, it won the Golden Plaque in International Competition for Best Documentary Short.[5][6]
References
- 1 2 Paniker, Shruti (2016-03-29). "A film that is 100% Amdavadi". Ahmedabad Mirror. Retrieved 2016-03-29.
- 1 2 DeshGujarat (2016-03-28). "National Film Awards 2016: Film 'Amdavad Ma Famous' bags Swarna Kamal". DeshGujarat. Retrieved 2016-03-29.
- 1 2 "'Amdavad ma Famous', a documentary that captures Uttarayan skies unlike any Bhansali film". IBNLive. 2016-01-16. Retrieved 2016-04-02.
- 1 2 "63rd National Film Awards, 2015 announced". Internet Archive. 5 April 2016. Archived from the original on April 5, 2016. Retrieved 5 April 2016.
- ↑ "Završen 63. Beogradski festival dokumentarnog i kratkometražnog filma (BFF), dodeljene nagrade « FCS". FCS (in Croatian). 4 February 2016. Retrieved 5 April 2016.
- ↑ Cunha, Uma Da (5 April 2016). "Mumbai". The Citizen. Retrieved 5 April 2016.