IFFLA 2008 Announces Award Winners

The 6th Annual Indian Film Festival of Los Angeles announces its 2008 Award winners with Richie Mehta’s AMAL as the winner of the Grand Jury Prize for Best Narrative Feature and Shivajee Chandrabhushan’s FROZEN receiving a Special Mention in the category. Yunus Vally’s THE GLOW OF WHITE WOMEN was named as the winner of the Grand Jury Prize for Best Documentary with Liz Mermin’s SHOT IN BOMBAY receiving a Special Mention.
Atul Sabwarhal’s’s MIDNIGHT LOST AND FOUND won the award for Best Short with Audience Awards going to Manish Acharya’s LOINS OF PUNJAB PRESENTS for Narrative, Christopher Mitchell’s SUPER 30 for Documentary and Preeya Nair’s QUAMAR – WORKING TO LIVE for the Short Film category.

JURY AWARDS
GRAND JURY PRIZE FOR BEST FEATURE
AMAL directed by Richie Mehta
Special mention for Debut Feature: Frozen directed by Shivajee Chandrabhushan
Jurors: Nishikant Kamut, Nancy Kwan, Sendhil Ramamurthy
GRAND JURY PRIZE FOR BEST DOCUMENTARY
THE GLOW OF WHITE WOMEN directed by Yunus Valley
Special mention for Documentary: Shot in Bombay directed by Liz Mermin
Jurors: Shonali Bose, John Nein, Susan West
GRAND JURY PRIZE FOR BEST SHORT
MIDNIGHT LOST AND FOUND directed by Atul Sabharwal
Jurors: Nisha Ganatra, Sarah Hoch, Meredith Scott Lynn

AUDIENCE CHOICE AWARDS

BEST FEATURE FILM
LOINS OF PUNJAB directed by Manish Acharya

BEST DOCUMENTARY FILM
SUPER 30 directed by Christopher Mitchell

BEST SHORT FILM
QUAMAR – WORKING TO LIVE directed by Preeya Nair