Awards & Jury

Jury Advisor

Aruna Vasudev

She has had an eventful career from the time she joined as a greenhorn helping out in the make-up rooms of Doordarshan some 45 years ago. She has lived and breathed cinema since she edited her first film as a rookie filmmaker in a New York . The Founder-President of NETPAC (Network for the Promotion of Asian Cinema), Founder-Director of Cinefan, Festival of Asian Cinema, (now Osian’s-Cinefan Festival of Asian and Arab Cinema) and Founder-Editor of Cinemaya, The Asian Film Quarterly (now Osian’s-Cinemaya). She is a Trustee of the Public Service Broadcasting Trust, India and of the newly constituted Forum for Art Beyond Borders, India ; was conferred France ’s top cultural award, the Chevalier des Arts et des Lettres; and the Star of Italian Solidarity. She is the author of two books on Indian Cinema; editor and co-editor of several books on cinema and television, including Being & Becoming: The Cinemas of Asia and co-editor of Modernity and Nationality in Vietnamese Cinema by Ngo Phuong Lan (2007); and has been a jury member in Cannes (Camera d’Or), Locarno, Thessaloniki, Singapore, Fajr (Tehran), Karlovy Vary, Istanbul, Antalya, Hawaii, Jeonju (Korea), Tallinn (Estonia) and many more.

Short Films Jury- Pravasi Film Festival 2010

Latika Padgaonkar

Latika Padgaonkar has taught at the Jawaherlal Nehru University in New Delhi and has worked as a foreign correspondent for the Indian News Daily, The Telegraph. She was the executive editor of Cinemaya, The Asian Film Quarterly and a columnist writing on cinema and literature, also worked as a National Information Officer for UNESCO in New Delhi . She was the Joint Director of Osian's Cinefan Festival of Asian and Arab Cinema.

Lalit Mohan Joshi

Lalit Mohan Joshi is an Indian film historian, critic and editor of the thematic journal South Asian Cinema. He is the Director of the South Asian Cinema Foundation (SACF), London . His book Bollywood – Popular Indian Cinema in 2002 has won critical acclaim and is considered the best billed book on the subject. He has been a broadcast journalist with the BBC World Service for 17 years where he produced a 19 part feature series on the History of Indian Cinema and has worked for BBC Television as one of the main producers for BBC2 series Bollywood or Bust. Latest book edited by him is A Door to ADOOR, which analyses the films of Adoor Gopalakrishnan.

Utpal Borpujari

Utpal Borpujari is a Delhi based film critic, who has been writing for cinema since almost two decades now. He won the National Award for the Best Film Critic at the 58th National Award in 2003. He is a member of FIPRESCI (International Federation of Film Critic) and has served as various national and international film jury and the Preview Committee of the International Film Festival of India (IFFI) in 2008 and 2009.

Profile of Feature Films Jury Members

Mr. Basu Chaterjee

For long a political cartoonist of BLITZ (19 years) Basu Chatterji's entry into cinema was through film society movement. During his seven long years as an active member of Film Forum, a film society, he was exposed to films from various countries like France , Italy , Sweden , Japan etc unlike others who could see only Hollywood films. He became secretary of film forum, which became the largest film society of the country in the sixties. He was also the secretary of federation of film societies of India , Western region for quite sometime. Some of his best films are Rajnigandha (1974), Dillagi, Chitchor, Choti Si Baat, Khatta Meetha, Ek Ruka Hua Faisla. He has directed many Bengali films. He has also directed the Detective Series for Doordarshan Byomkesh Bakshi. He is the member of International Film And Television Club of Asian Academy Of Film & Television.

Mr. Rahul Rawail

Eminent director started his career as an assistant director, for movies like Bobby, Kal Aaj Aur Kal and Mera Naam Joker. He was a producer for a couple of movies like Dacait, Mast Kalandar and Buddha Mar Gaya . He has edited the movie Jo Bole So Nihal and has also acted in that movie as Al Fatah Terrorist. He is also a writer for Is Pyaar Ko Kya Naam Doon and Deedar-E-Yaar. His career as a director has been very bright as he has directed many movies, some of his hits are Love Story, Betaab, Aur Pyaar Ho Gaya and Arjun Pandit. Some of the recent ones are Kuch Khatti Kuch Meethi (2001).

Mr. Sanjay Singh

A film director worked with renowned Indian film maker J.P. Dutta. Sanjay Singh has directed feature films Binani Hove To Issee (A Regional film in Rajasthani Language), Kachchi Sadak (A film in Hindi language) Documentaries, corporate films and numerous Television Programs. He was Curator of the Indian Program in 7th edition of Cinema South International Film Festival held at Sedrot , Israel in 2007. He is also festival director of an upcoming film festival, Pink City International Film Festival to be held in September 2010 in Jaipur. He has produced a documentary film Sharma Gaye Cinema about family planning and was executive producer for Gora Hat Jaa a Documentary based on the freedom struggle of India . Working as Director Media and Creative with Encompass Media Pvt.Ltd.

Ms. Namrata Joshi

She is working as assistant editor and film critic with Outlook newsmagazine, New Delhi . She was the winner of the National Award for Best Film Critic for 2004. A member of FIPRESCI, (the international federation of film critics based in Munich , she has been a member of the FIPRESCI (International Federation of Film Critic). A jury at the Cairo International Film Festival, November 2009; Moscow International Film Festival, June 2007 and International Film Festival of Kerala, Trivandrum, December 2005. She was also part of the British Chevening Scholarship for Indian Journalists (March 1997—June 1997) at the School of Communications , University of Westminster , London . She has been on the selection committee for Indian panorama section at the International Film Festival of India, Goa , 2008. She has also been on the jury for students’ films in the Twilight Film Festival for short films and documentaries, Delhi , 2008.