| Golden Jury Film Festival | |
|---|---|
| Status | Active |
| Genre | Film festival |
| Frequency | Annually |
| Location(s) | Mumbai, India |
| Country | India |
| Years active | 2019–present |
| Founded | 2019 |
| Founder | Pragyesh Singh |
| Most recent | 2023 |
| Next event | 2024 |
| Participants | Amrit Gangar, Inaamulhaq, Bidita Bag, Vikas Khanna, Karthik Krishnan, Sagar Sarhadi, Major Bikramjeet Kanwarpal, Rahul Bose, Anjali Patil, Sunil Pal, Sandeep Nath, Shishir Sharma, Vinay Pathak, Sharib Hashmi, Nitin Kakkar, Divyenndu, Saurabh Shukla, Pavan Malhotra, Gauahar Khan, Yashpal Sharma, Manoj Bakshi, J. D. Chakravarthy, Mukesh Bhatt, Barkha Bisht, Shahid Mallya, Tejaswini Kolhapure, Brijendra Kala |
| Festival director | Subhransu Das |
| Organised by | Golden Jury Film Academy |
| Website | Official website |
The Golden Jury Film Festival is a film festival in India, that is held annually in Mumbai. It was founded in 2019. [1]
Golden Jury Film Festival was founded by Pragyesh Singh. The first edition of the Golden Jury Film Festival was held in Mumbai, India in 2019. [2] [3]
It was a two-day film festival that was held in Andheri, Mumbai, on December 17–18, under the Golden Jury Film Academy's banner, whose program director was cinematographer Shubhranshu Das. The film festival had entries of 117 films, of which 15 films were screened and awards were distributed in 16 categories. [4] [5]
The competition winners in 2019 included Forbidden Tikka Masala (Best Film), Naseeruddin Shah (Best Actor), Navni Parihar (Best Actress), Bhoomika Meena (Best Actress), Neena Gupta (Special Jury), Neeraj Yadav (Best Director) and Resul Pookutty (Best Sound Designing). [4] [6]
The following film and TV personalities participated in the 1st edition: [7] [8]
The second edition of the Golden Jury Film Festival was held in December 2020. It began on 14 December and conclude on December 16. The Golden Jury Film Festival 2020 was launched by actor Vinay Pathak and Sharib Hashmi. [9] The festival showcased 40 films out of 520 entries. Actor Rahul Bose, Nitin Kakkar, Bidita Bag, Inaamulhaq, Vikram Kochhar and Anjali Patil were guests at the festival while its jury members were Smita Jaykar, Shishir Sharma, Ashok Purang, Sandeep Nath and Gadadhar Putty. [10] [11]
The 2021 edition of the Golden Jury Film Festival showcased a selection of 68 films from a total of 564 submissions. Shishir Sharma and Smita Jaykar contributed their expertise as jury members, alongside the National Award-winning director Gadadhar Puty and theatre personality Ashok Purang. Actor Divyenndu Sharma was honored with the Best Male Actor award for his performance in the film Mere Desh Ki Dharti , while the film's director received the Best Director award in the feature film category. Saurabh Shukla's film, The Incomplete Tale of Satyaprakash Paramkovid, secured the Best Feature Film award at the festival. [12]
The fourth edition of the festival was held in December 2022. It was attended by notable personalities from the film industry, including Pavan Malhotra, Gauahar Khan, Vikram Kochhar, Yashpal Sharma, Manoj Bakshi, J. D. Chakravarthy, Inaamulhaq, Saharsh Shukla, Girish Thapar, Nitin Kakkar, Mukesh Bhatt, Barkha Bisht, Shahid Mallya, and Arvinder Singh. [13] [14] [15]
The jury includes Odia filmmaker Gadadhar Putty, lyricist Sandeep Nath, film theorist and curator Amrit Gangar, and acting coach Ashok Purang. [16] [17]
The film awards were given in 20 different categories, which included Documentary, Short, and Feature films. Some of the winning films were Vanrakshak, Midnight Delhi, Bright Future, Purple Case, Neither a girl nor a Woman, Behrupiya, Meet Mr. Chang, Dobya, Sambhram - Never Odd or Even, Between The Lines, Nimmo Lucknow Wali, Zibha, and Dammy. [18] [19]
The fifth edition of the Golden Jury Film Festival was held on December 13 and 14, 2023, with support from Uttar Pradesh Tourism, the Government of Uttar Pradesh. Notable figures from the film industry, such as Tejaswini Kolhapure, Brijendra Kala, Yashpal Sharma, Atul Srivastava, Inaamulhaq, Vikram Kochhar, Aditya Srivastava, Rajesh Jais, Shishir Sharma, Piyush Mishra, Smita Jaykar, and Mukesh Bhatt, among others, were in attendance. [20] [21]
A diverse range of films was showcased during the festival, including Piyush Mishra's Rare, Titu Ambani featuring Deepika Singh and Raghubir Yadav, Dada Lakhmi starring Yashpal Sharma, Kripiya Dhyan Dein, Ghost Walk, and several others. [20] The closing film, Bed No. 17, directed by Mir Sarwar, concluded the event. [20]
| Film | Category | Recipient |
|---|---|---|
| The Wallet (2019) | Best Actor Award | Naseeruddin Shah |
| The Wallet (2019) | Best Actor Female Award | Navni Parihar |
| Chuhedaani (2018) | Best Actor Female Award | Bhoomika Meena |
| Forbidden Tikka Masala (2018) | Best Film Award | Forbidden Tikka Masala |
| The Last Color (2019) | Special Jury Award | Neena Gupta |
| Sax By Julius | Best Sound Designing Award | Resul Pookutty |
| Sax By Julius | Best Director Award | Neeraj Yadav |
| Film | Category | Recipient |
|---|---|---|
| Cold Calm (2020) | Best Feature Film | ― |
| Neon Sea (2020) | Best Story | ― |
| A Spoonful Of Stardust (2020) | Best Director | ― |
| Dhumkkudiya (2019) | Best Actor (Female) | Rinkal Kachhap |
| First Signal | Best Actor (Male) | Paul Noonan |
| Hitlerin kadaisi ninaivugal | Best Short Film | ― |
| The Quite shore | Best Actor - Short (Female) | Jeaux Bartley |
| Painful Pride | Best Actor - Short (Female) | Pallavi Joshi |
| Raani | Best Actor - Short (Male) | Dev Fauzdar |
| The Open Window | Best Animated Film | ― |
| The Boro | Best Documentary Film | ― |
| A Bohemian Musician | Best Director (documentary) | Rochak Sahu |
| An Incident In A Small Town | Best Script | ― |
| Film | Category | Recipient |
|---|---|---|
| Mere Desh Ki Dharti | Best Male Actor Award | Divyenndu Sharma |
| Mere Desh Ki Dharti | Best Director Award (Feature Film) | Faraz Haider |
| The Incomplete Tale of Satyaprakash Paramkovid | Best Feature Film | Saurabh Shukla |
| Chippipaarai | Best Short Film | Praveen Giri |
| The Iron Lady of Kashmir | Best Documentary Film | Suresh K. Goswami |
| Film | Category | Recipient |
|---|---|---|
| Viral World | Best Feature Film | Brijesh Tangi |
| Vanrakshak | Best Director | Pawan Kumar Sharma |
| Midnight Delhi | Best Debut Director | Raakesh Rawat |
| Midnight Delhi | Best Actor (Male) | Mukesh Bhatt |
| Nimmo Lucknow Wali | Best Actor (Female) | Shikha Chauhan |
| Nimmo Lucknow Wali | Best Music | Arjun Tondon |
| Dobya | Best Short Film | Ashutosh Jare |
| Neither a Girl Nor a Woman | Best Documentary Film | Anjali Patil |
| Film | Category | Recipient |
|---|---|---|
| Samanantar | Best Feature Film | Niraj Kumar Mishra |
| Dada Lakhmi | Best Director | Yashpal Sharma |
| Bed No. 17 | Best Debut Director | Mir Sarwar |
| Kripya Dhyaan Dein | Best Actor (Male) | Brijendra Kala |
| Bed No. 17 | Best Actor (Male) | Rishi Bhutani |
| Zindagi Kashmakash | Best Actor (Female) | Tejaswini Kolhapure |
| Titu Ambani | Best Actor (Female) | Deepika Singh |
| Mere Shiva | Best Music | Naman Anand, Ashutosh Bharadwaj |
| Ghost Walk | Best Short Film | Ananth Narayan Mahadevan |
| The Victims of Sundarbans | Best Documentary Film | Dilip Ghosh |
| Bridge | Best Social Film | Kripal Kalita [23] |
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