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Kalakari is an exclusive event of INDIA for upcoming Indian artist and thinkers,
An award function and art festival by rishi nikam.
and is the most prestigious Awards for the film, animation, visual effects, photography segment across the Indian sub-continent and beyond. kalakari by Rishi Nikam event has grown from strength to strength and has become a springboard to showcase talent.

The Awards are open to students, professionals and studios from across the world.
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2020 KALAKARI WINNERS

Jenness Rouse

kalakari film festival
Best web series
The Shannon O'Brian Chronicles "COVIDEO FACEMASK SERIES" (Abridged)
Directed by
Jenness Rouse

Roshni Venugopal

Best film of the fest
Vidheyar
Sujith Dass Roshni Venugopal india

Aditya itoriya

Best photography
phone photographer from INDIA

rica Duke

Best horror
Mark of the Rougarou
Directed by
Erica Duke

Neriah Kharece

Best director
Ashes
Directed by
Neriah Kharece

Dina Faye Gilmore

kalakari film festival
Best thriller
Baby In The Basement
Directed by

Jaidev Tripathy

Best story and script
Damaged
Jaidev Tripathy

pravin shinde

Best cinematography
MISTAKE OR MURDER
praveen shinde

Saheer Abbas

Best fiction
Death Offers Life - last moments of Vincent Van Gogh
Saheer Abbas Madhu R India

Jenness Rouse

kalakari film festival
Best web series
The Shannon O'Brian Chronicles "COVIDEO FACEMASK SERIES" (Abridged)
Directed by
Jenness Rouse

Roshni Venugopal

Best film of the fest
Vidheyar
Sujith Dass Roshni Venugopal india

Aditya itoriya

Best photography
phone photographer from INDIA

rica Duke

Best horror
Mark of the Rougarou
Directed by
Erica Duke

Neriah Kharece

Best director
Ashes
Directed by
Neriah Kharece

Dina Faye Gilmore

kalakari film festival
Best thriller
Baby In The Basement
Directed by

Jaidev Tripathy

Best story and script
Damaged
Jaidev Tripathy

pravin shinde

Best cinematography
MISTAKE OR MURDER
praveen shinde

Saheer Abbas

Best fiction
Death Offers Life - last moments of Vincent Van Gogh
Saheer Abbas Madhu R India

Best Films 2020 Kalakari Film Festival

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the merchant

feature length script
by
Jesse Mattson and Co-Writer Bobby Davison

Ashes

Best director
Ashes
Directed by
Neriah Kharece

the overcoat

Directed by
Justin 'Juice' Black
Based on the short story by Nikolai Gogol written in 1842. A lowly office worker's new overcoat transforms his bleak and invisible existence. Unfortunately, this new lease of life is short lived.

This edit was made in tribute prisoner of conscience filmmaker Oleg Sentsov

TRAUMA

Directed by
Hesam Dehghani

A young girl takes revenge on the man who just brutally raped her in the street (inspired by true events).

MAVKA

Directed by
Alona Shylova

Two girls go swimming in the lake. Along the way, they are speaking about their everyday life as young women and problems of an adulthood. Swimming in the lake promises nothing special until one of the girls meets Mavka - mysterious creature from Ukrainian legends.

death offers life

The story is the fictional account of the last five minutes of the acclaimed painter Vincent Van Gogh who was a failure in his lifetime. Death who has come to take him makes an offer which Van Gogh rejects and accepts the hands of death gracefully.

the perch

Directed by
Jonathan Gill
A wanna-be assassin and a suicidal young lady cross paths at an abandoned high rise.

Covid - 19 From Outer Space

Directed by
Edoardo Nervi, Lea Borniotto, Vera Borniotto.

This short film, shot entirely in quarantine during the coronavirus restriction period, tells of a failed alien invasion, freely inspired by the genius of the trash, Ed Wood.

I AM A CREATIVE SOUL, a film about dying, living & the creative process

by Jessica Hahner.
"It´s about life and when it happens..." Paul Cannon, musician

Jessie Hahner is on the search for 2 time Grammy Award Winner Jason Mraz. The option for an interview with Jason turns out to become an 8 year journey evolving into a musically road movie. Confronted with the Leukemia diagnose of her dad right in the starting point of this movie she dives into intimate interviews, synchronistic meetings and an adventure on it's own. With no money in her pockets the german Filmmak

SAFETY FIRST

Directed by
Vic Kings
Returning from their wedding anniversary, Marta and Carlos Cavalcanti are surprised by an invasion in their house, something that will forever change their family.

MOTHER

Directed by
Anna Escobar

During the quarantine of 2020, between days of distress and anxiety, Anna learned to organize her thoughts and put up with the missing of her mother. Her vision goes in the middle of this moment to observe how fragile we all are and that nothing is lost. Whether our relationship as individuals before our mothers or as human beings before mother nature, when we feel fear we feel like helpless children again. Questions and her views are asked about what it was like to li

Who Is Responsible

Directed by
Sena Tunali

Who Is Responsible

A sad lead pantomime artist and sad world realities. Our forests are burning out. Animals are dying out. Plastic wastes are everywhere. The world is dying out. Seeing the sad events of nature from a pantomime artists point of view. As the pantomime artist worded "We should change this before it's too late".

hand shake

Directed by
Katerina Sigala
The handshake nowadays has become so typical, so impersonal. Do you speak without a soul? Has virtual reality taken the place of the real? Did you stop talking to the eyes? A handshake equals 1000 words and feelings. Yours?

barbara

Directed by
Valeriy Pereverzev

Submitted by
Iuliia Pereverzeva
A story about a single father who makes a living creating
provocative performance art. In the eyes of society, his work
and choices in raising his little daughter are unacceptable.

another child

Directed by
Leanna Borsellino, James Headrick.
From the time she was 3, Leanna knew what her cousin did to her body behind closed doors was wrong. Still, shame kept her from telling anyone for many years. When she finally found the courage to tell her mother, the startling response caused Leanna to choose silent torment for several more years to come.

Why did Leanna’s mother repress her cry for help? ANOTHER CHILD is director Leanna Borsellino’s attempt to unravel the confusing maze of emotion

FOREST Directed by Dermott Burns

‘Forest’ is an experimental short film rendered using real-time graphics. Through contrasting a vibrant virtual paradise with a dark reality, the film reflects upon humanity’s ignorance of their destructive nature on earth; the innocence of youth and the indifference of adulthood.

Vidheyar

Directed by
Sujith Dass

Vidheyar (The Obedient Slaves) is a malayalam shortfilm inspired by Jean Genet’s play "The Maids" in which fantasy and reality fold into each other.

Two women play out meticulous scenes together, fantasizing about how the Boss might abuse them and how they will ultimately murder him.They recreate a sadistic and subversive ritual in which they pretend as both employer and one another

Story is re-imagined in a ritualized, hyper-theatrical dance of death in which the two

our song

Directed by
Jordan Henderson

London_Arabia_Navid_Still%20(1)_edited

Directed by
Daniel Jewel
When a Luxury Building Development tries to force out a diverse community in London's 'Little Arabia', the community chooses to stand their ground and band together to protect their hard won new homes in London.

Inner love

Directed by
Ehsan Nasri
Inner Love” is a social drama ,silent and musical short film written and directed by Ehsan Nasri.
“Inner love” is the story of a labor child’s life who is kind, self-giving and loves life despite all of its difficulties. As a filmmaker, I deeply care about children of labor, their lives and their rights. By making this movie, I wish to show the world who these children really are and call the world to support them and help them to have a better life.

The Wheelchair And The Trap

Directed by
Bilal Hussain
Michelle Pedersen is a young detective who is working on a weapon’s smuggling case and one day she receives important information by a colleague Farhad Kazami that a shipment is arriving at a closed garage area but when Michelle arrives, she is shot multiple times in a shootout and bullets hit her hip that fractures her pelvic bones leaving her legs paralyzed.

Michelle moves in with her mother but living under the same roof is a difficult task because they have a dist

EGO SUM!

Directed by
Waner Biazus
It's night, rain. Father and amateur filmmaker, in the church, are shooting a documentary. The filmmaker captures in the camera, paintings at the ceiling of the cathedral. They shift personal impressions about their meanings. They evoke God, angels, demons, and men. Someone arrives at the door of the church. Unintentionally, both are involved in a millennial conflict.

the merchant

feature length script
by
Jesse Mattson and Co-Writer Bobby Davison

Ashes

Best director
Ashes
Directed by
Neriah Kharece

the overcoat

Directed by
Justin 'Juice' Black
Based on the short story by Nikolai Gogol written in 1842. A lowly office worker's new overcoat transforms his bleak and invisible existence. Unfortunately, this new lease of life is short lived.

This edit was made in tribute prisoner of conscience filmmaker Oleg Sentsov

TRAUMA

Directed by
Hesam Dehghani

A young girl takes revenge on the man who just brutally raped her in the street (inspired by true events).

MAVKA

Directed by
Alona Shylova

Two girls go swimming in the lake. Along the way, they are speaking about their everyday life as young women and problems of an adulthood. Swimming in the lake promises nothing special until one of the girls meets Mavka - mysterious creature from Ukrainian legends.

death offers life

The story is the fictional account of the last five minutes of the acclaimed painter Vincent Van Gogh who was a failure in his lifetime. Death who has come to take him makes an offer which Van Gogh rejects and accepts the hands of death gracefully.

the perch

Directed by
Jonathan Gill
A wanna-be assassin and a suicidal young lady cross paths at an abandoned high rise.

Covid - 19 From Outer Space

Directed by
Edoardo Nervi, Lea Borniotto, Vera Borniotto.

This short film, shot entirely in quarantine during the coronavirus restriction period, tells of a failed alien invasion, freely inspired by the genius of the trash, Ed Wood.

I AM A CREATIVE SOUL, a film about dying, living & the creative process

by Jessica Hahner.
"It´s about life and when it happens..." Paul Cannon, musician

Jessie Hahner is on the search for 2 time Grammy Award Winner Jason Mraz. The option for an interview with Jason turns out to become an 8 year journey evolving into a musically road movie. Confronted with the Leukemia diagnose of her dad right in the starting point of this movie she dives into intimate interviews, synchronistic meetings and an adventure on it's own. With no money in her pockets the german Filmmak

SAFETY FIRST

Directed by
Vic Kings
Returning from their wedding anniversary, Marta and Carlos Cavalcanti are surprised by an invasion in their house, something that will forever change their family.

MOTHER

Directed by
Anna Escobar

During the quarantine of 2020, between days of distress and anxiety, Anna learned to organize her thoughts and put up with the missing of her mother. Her vision goes in the middle of this moment to observe how fragile we all are and that nothing is lost. Whether our relationship as individuals before our mothers or as human beings before mother nature, when we feel fear we feel like helpless children again. Questions and her views are asked about what it was like to li

Who Is Responsible

Directed by
Sena Tunali

Who Is Responsible

A sad lead pantomime artist and sad world realities. Our forests are burning out. Animals are dying out. Plastic wastes are everywhere. The world is dying out. Seeing the sad events of nature from a pantomime artists point of view. As the pantomime artist worded "We should change this before it's too late".

hand shake

Directed by
Katerina Sigala
The handshake nowadays has become so typical, so impersonal. Do you speak without a soul? Has virtual reality taken the place of the real? Did you stop talking to the eyes? A handshake equals 1000 words and feelings. Yours?

barbara

Directed by
Valeriy Pereverzev

Submitted by
Iuliia Pereverzeva
A story about a single father who makes a living creating
provocative performance art. In the eyes of society, his work
and choices in raising his little daughter are unacceptable.

another child

Directed by
Leanna Borsellino, James Headrick.
From the time she was 3, Leanna knew what her cousin did to her body behind closed doors was wrong. Still, shame kept her from telling anyone for many years. When she finally found the courage to tell her mother, the startling response caused Leanna to choose silent torment for several more years to come.

Why did Leanna’s mother repress her cry for help? ANOTHER CHILD is director Leanna Borsellino’s attempt to unravel the confusing maze of emotion

FOREST Directed by Dermott Burns

‘Forest’ is an experimental short film rendered using real-time graphics. Through contrasting a vibrant virtual paradise with a dark reality, the film reflects upon humanity’s ignorance of their destructive nature on earth; the innocence of youth and the indifference of adulthood.

Vidheyar

Directed by
Sujith Dass

Vidheyar (The Obedient Slaves) is a malayalam shortfilm inspired by Jean Genet’s play "The Maids" in which fantasy and reality fold into each other.

Two women play out meticulous scenes together, fantasizing about how the Boss might abuse them and how they will ultimately murder him.They recreate a sadistic and subversive ritual in which they pretend as both employer and one another

Story is re-imagined in a ritualized, hyper-theatrical dance of death in which the two

our song

Directed by
Jordan Henderson

London_Arabia_Navid_Still%20(1)_edited

Directed by
Daniel Jewel
When a Luxury Building Development tries to force out a diverse community in London's 'Little Arabia', the community chooses to stand their ground and band together to protect their hard won new homes in London.

Inner love

Directed by
Ehsan Nasri
Inner Love” is a social drama ,silent and musical short film written and directed by Ehsan Nasri.
“Inner love” is the story of a labor child’s life who is kind, self-giving and loves life despite all of its difficulties. As a filmmaker, I deeply care about children of labor, their lives and their rights. By making this movie, I wish to show the world who these children really are and call the world to support them and help them to have a better life.

The Wheelchair And The Trap

Directed by
Bilal Hussain
Michelle Pedersen is a young detective who is working on a weapon’s smuggling case and one day she receives important information by a colleague Farhad Kazami that a shipment is arriving at a closed garage area but when Michelle arrives, she is shot multiple times in a shootout and bullets hit her hip that fractures her pelvic bones leaving her legs paralyzed.

Michelle moves in with her mother but living under the same roof is a difficult task because they have a dist

EGO SUM!

Directed by
Waner Biazus
It's night, rain. Father and amateur filmmaker, in the church, are shooting a documentary. The filmmaker captures in the camera, paintings at the ceiling of the cathedral. They shift personal impressions about their meanings. They evoke God, angels, demons, and men. Someone arrives at the door of the church. Unintentionally, both are involved in a millennial conflict.

2020 Awards Ceremony

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