Indian docu wins award at Montreal film fest
Children of the Pyre, a feature documentary shot in Varanasi by Delhi-based filmmaker Rajesh Jala, has won the AUDIENCE AWARD for the Best Feature Documentary at the Montreal World Film Festival.
The 74-minute film is about seven young boys who work at the Manikarnika Cremation Grounds on the banks of the Ganga. The film apparently “created a stir at the festival right from the beginning”, according to information received from Gautam Hooja of Indo Canadian Films International.
The film received widespread media coverage and topped off the week with a much sought after AUDIENCE AWARD at the closing ceremonies at the glittering Theatre Maisonneuve.
Children of the Pyre has been nominated for Competition in major well-known international film festivals in Pusan, Leipzig and Sao Paulo.
Rajesh Jala was present on the closing night to receive the prize, which is incidentally the only award at the festival for documentaries.
(More about the film at www.rajeshjala.com)
Other Awardees
Anurag Kashyap
Abhay Deol
Dibakar Banerjee
Hansal Mehta
Khalid Mohamed
Kundan Shah
Anish Kuruvilla
Jaideep Verma
Manish Gupta
Navdeep Singh
Bhavani Iyer
D. Santosh
Onir
Ashvin Kumar
Ramu Ramanathan
Sudhir Mishra
Pankaj Advani
Revathy
Saurabh Shukla
Shilpa Shukla
Sujoy Ghosh
Suparn Verma
Santosh Sivan
Shashank Ghosh
Shivajee
Pavan Kaul
Partho Sen-Gupta
Prroshant Naryannan
Sam Langoria
Satish Kasetty
Congratulations to Rajesh Jala.
heartiest congratulations for rajesh jala
Proud of rajesh jala….congrats…
This sounds pretty interesting,Any Idea when it will be available in India?????
very interesting!!!
congrats to rajesh jala!!!
Thamizh film director’s upcoming film ‘Naan Kadavul’ has been shot extensively in Prayag and Varanasi – particularly near the Manikarnika ghat – Lets see how a mainstream film captures the same mileu
Congrats to rajesh Jala..Utpal..any more info about the man or the docu? Any chance that you can get an interview from him?
The correct link of the website is:
http://rajeshsjala.com/
Just saw the promo and was bowled over by the frames. Very well shot, and it seems, very sensational stuff too.
Here’s the link to the promo:
http://in.youtube.com/watch?v=BsPly5kDbgI
And yes, any idea when and where we can catch the whole thing? Or is the DVD available?
Congrats, Mr. Jala!!
Congrats to Mr Jala
saw the Documentary at IFFI Goa this year. The video was very candid and disturbing and it ended with a beautiful Kabir Song sung by Kumar Gandharva.