Amdavad Ma Famous

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 Hardik Mehta and produced by Akanksha Tewari and Arya A. Menon. It 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]

Amdavad Ma Famous
Official poster
Directed byHardik Mehta
Produced byAkanksha Tewari, Arya A. Menon
StarringZaid
Music byAlokananda Dasgupta
CinematographyPiyush Puty and Harshbir Singh
Release date
  • 24 September 2015 (2015-09-24) (Budapest International Documentary Festival)
CountryIndia
LanguageGujarati

Plot

Set during the kaleidoscopic backdrop of Uttarayana, the kite-flying festival in Ahmedabad city of 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.

Release

Amdavad Ma Famous is released on Netflix.[5]

Awards

The film received the National Film Award for Best Non-Feature Film at 63rd National Film Awards for 2015.[1][2][4] The film has also won the best short documentary award at the 2015 Budapest International Documentary 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.[6][7] The film was an official selection and in competition at 2016 Hot Docs Canadian International Documentary Festival,[8] 2016 Palm Springs International Festival of Shorts,[9] 2016 MAMI Mumbai International Film Festival, 2016 Indian Panorama at International Film Festival of India (IFFI) Goa.[10] The film won Best Foreign Documentary at 2016 River Film Festival in Italy[11] and 2016 All Sports Film Festival, LA, US. It also won Special Mention Jury award at 2016 International Documentary and Shorts Film Festival of Kerela (IDSFFK)[12] and 2016 Smile International Film Festival for Children and Youth, New Delhi (SIFFCY).

References
  1. Paniker, Shruti (29 March 2016). "A film that is 100% Amdavadi". Ahmedabad Mirror. Retrieved 29 March 2016.
  2. DeshGujarat (28 March 2016). "National Film Awards 2016: Film 'Amdavad Ma Famous' bags Swarna Kamal". DeshGujarat. Retrieved 29 March 2016.
  3. "'Amdavad ma Famous', a documentary that captures Uttarayan skies unlike any Bhansali film". CNN-IBN. 16 January 2016. Retrieved 2 April 2016.
  4. "63rd National Film Awards, 2015 announced". Internet Archive. 5 April 2016. Archived from the original on 5 April 2016. Retrieved 5 April 2016.
  5. "'Amdavad Ma Famous': A Soaring Documentary About Kite-Flying". Huffington Post India. Retrieved 30 December 2016.
  6. "Završen 63. Beogradski festival dokumentarnog i kratkometražnog filma (BFF), dodeljene nagrade " FCS". FCS (in Croatian). 4 February 2016. Retrieved 5 April 2016.
  7. Cunha, Uma Da (5 April 2016). "Mumbai". The Citizen. Retrieved 5 April 2016.
  8. "Hot Docs Film Festival – Famous in Ahmedabad". boxoffice.hotdocs.ca. Retrieved 30 December 2016.
  9. "Famous in Ahmedabad | Palm Springs International Film Festival". www.psfilmfest.org. Retrieved 30 December 2016.
  10. "Goa International Film Festival is back". Deccan Chronicle. 30 October 2016. Retrieved 30 December 2016.
  11. "Vincitori 2016 – River Film Festival". River Film Festival. Retrieved 30 December 2016.
  12. Staff Reporter. "Short film fete ends on a sweet note". The Hindu. Retrieved 30 December 2016.
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