Chennai, Jan 31
Actress-filmmaker
Geethu Mohandas has won the Global Filmmaking award at the Sundance
Film Festival 2016.
Besides Geethu, who was elected for the award
for her upcoming feature "Insha' Allah", the award
was also presented to Cuban filmmaker Armando Capo abd Italian
filmmakers Antonio Piazza, Fabio Grassadonia and Moroccan filmmaker
Abdellah Taia.
The award winners were announced by Sundance
institute on its website.
The award is aimed at honouring and supporting
some of the most impactful emerging filmmakers from around the
world.
Geethu's "Insha' Allah" is about
a young boy from Lakshadweep Islands in the Arabian Sea on an
adventure to the mainland in order to find his older brother.
Last year, Indian filmmaker Shonali Bose won
the same award for her film "Margarita with a Straw". |