Facebook announces 2 awards at Film Bazaar - Times of India
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Facebook announces 2 awards at Film Bazaar - Times of India Panaji: Social networking site, Facebook made a surprise contribution at the NFDC Film Bazaar 2016 awards on Thursday by announcing awards for two of the films presented at the four-day long festival. Kabir Mehta's 'Buddha. Gram' and Kanwal Sethi's 'Once Again' won the Facebook credits award at the Film Bazaar. With this award, the filmmakers will find a cost free avenue to promote their film on the social networking site.
In other words, Facebook will provide free ads worth $10,000 for the two films. After a number of of intellectually stimulating knowledge sessions, interactions with both amateur and established filmmakers, and value adding film exchange between South Asian film industry and the global film fraternity, NFDC's Film Bazaar culminated on November 24. At this year's edition, Sanal Kumar Sasidharan's 'Sexy Durga' and Ridham Janve's 'The Gold Laden Sheep' and 'Sacred Mountain' won the Prasad DI Award. The award grants them the opportunity to work with Prasad Labs. Exclusively created to encourage collaboration between the international and South Asian film fraternities, the platform saw another successful year of facilitating the sales of world cinema in the region. This year's market received an attendance of 1,032 entries from across the globe. Of these, 198 films from 88 countries were selected to be a part of the eight day festival. This was the highest number so far, in the ten years since the Bazaar's inception.
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