इक्यूमिनिकल ज्यूरी पुरस्काराने समित कक्कड सन्मानित (Kakkad ikyuminikala jury awarded S)

अनेक आंतराष्ट्रीय फिल्म फेस्टिव्हलमध्ये ठसा उमटविणाऱ्या ‘हाफ तिकीट’सिनेमाने ५७ व्या ‘झिलन इंटरनॅशनल फिल्म फेस्टिव्हल’(Zlin International Film Festival) मध्ये ही आपली मोहोर उमटवली आहे.प्रयोगशील तरूण दिग्दर्शक म्हणून अल्पावधीतच वेगळी ओळख निर्माण करणार्‍या समित कक्कड यांना प्रतिष्ठेच्या इक्यूमिनिकल ज्यूरी पुरस्काराने सन्मानित करण्यात आले आहे. आतापर्यंत फार थोड्या भारतीय दिग्दर्शकांना हा सन्मान मिळाला आहे. जगातील सर्वात मोठा चिल्ड्रन फिल्म फेस्टिव्हल अशी ‘झिलन इंटरनॅशनल फिल्म फेस्टिव्हल’ची ख्याती आहे.

या पुरस्काराबद्दल बोलताना समित कक्कड म्हणाले की, माझ्यासाठी व माझ्या संपूर्ण टीमसाठी हा सुवर्णक्षण आहे. मराठी सिनेमा आज जागतिकस्तरापर्यंत येऊन पोहचल्याचा आनंदच आहे. भारतीय चित्रपटांची दखल आज जागतिक स्तरावर घेत असल्याचा आनंद व्यक्त करताना अधिकाअधिक भारतीय सिनेमांना हा सन्मान मिळून हे सिनेमे जगभरातल्या प्रेक्षकांपर्यंत पोहचणे गरजेचे असल्याचे मत समित कक्कड व्यक्त करतात.

लहानग्यांच्या भावविश्वाचा कॅनव्हास रेखाटणारा व्हिडिओ पॅलेस निर्मित व समित कक्कड दिग्दर्शित ‘हाफ तिकीट’ या चित्रपटात शुभम मोरे, विनायक पोतदार या दोन बालकलाकारांसह भाऊ कदम, प्रियांका बोस, उषा नाईक,शशांक शेंडे, जयवंत वाडकर, कैलाश वाघमारे आदि कलाकारांच्या भूमिका आहेत. 'काक मुत्ताई' या दाक्षिणात्य चित्रपटाचे अधिकृत रूपांतरण असलेल्या‘हाफ तिकीट’ या सिनेमाने अनेक इंटरनॅशनल फिल्म फेस्टिव्हल मध्ये आपला ठसा उमटवला आहे.

'Half Ticket' in International Film Festivals:

Selected in 38th Cairo International Film Festival 2016'

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Selected in 40th Portland International Film Festival 2017'

Selected in 41st Cleveland International Film Festival 2017'

Selected in 57th Zlin International Film Festival 2017'

Selected in 20th Shanghai International Film Festival 2017'

Selected in 14th Stuttgart Indian Film Festival 2017'

Selected in 11th London Indian Film Festival (BFI Educational Screening) 2017'

Selected in 38th Durban International Film Festival 2017'

Selected in 20th Zanzibar International Film Festival 2017'

Indian filmmaker Samit Kakkad's wins the prestigious 'Ecumenical Jury Award' 

Following the recently concluded 57th Zlin International film festival, one of the largest children’s film festivals worldwide, it was announced today that Indian filmmaker Samit Kakkad's "Half Ticket" has won the much-coveted 'Ecumenical Jury Award'

The film produced by Video Palace and starring Priyanka Bose (Lion) and Bhalachandra Kadam (Sanggto Aika, Timepass) in addition to the two lead young actors (Shubham More and Vinayak Potdar) was part of the official selection at this much celebrated film festival held in Czech Republic.

Speaking about winning this prestigious award for his film an overjoyed Kakkad said, “I am elated to have heard this news of having won such a big award. This means the world to me and only bolsters my confidence that good Indian cinema is being appreciated. To even imagine that this is an award people I look up to have received, races my heart. I can only and wish that this paves the way for more Indian films internationally and hope that larger audiences are able to enjoy not just mine, but my contemporaries films as well”

The coveted Ecumenical jury award is given at leading film festivals globally since 1973 with the aim of ‘honoring the works of artistic quality which witnesses to the power of film to reveal the mysterious depths of human beings through what concerns them, their hurts and failings as well as their hopes.’ And has been bestowed on international filmmakers such as Andrei Tarkovsky, Mohsen Makhmalbaf, Samira Makhmalbaf, Asghar Farhadi, Fatih Akin and Pedro Almodovar among others.

Half Ticket is directed by Samit Kakkad and has been produced by Video Palace and is being represented by Basil Content Media at film festivals

'Half Ticket' in International Film Festivals: 

Selected in 38th Cairo International Film Festival 2016'

Selected in 28th Palm Springs International Film Festival 2017'

Selected in 40th Portland International Film Festival 2017'

Selected in 41st Cleveland International Film Festival 2017'

Selected in 57th Zlin International Film Festival 2017'

Selected in 20th Shanghai International Film Festival 2017'

Selected in 14th Stuttgart Indian Film Festival 2017'

Selected in 11th London Indian Film Festival (BFI Educational Screening) 2017'

Selected in 38th Durban International Film Festival 2017'

Selected in 20th Zanzibar International Film Festival 2017'

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