The 3rd Spiny Babbler Film Festival was successfully completed

Kathmandu – Spiny Movies Pvt. Ltd. successfully completed the 3rd Spiny Babbler International Film Festival 2023 at Rashtriya Nachghar located in the capital on the 24th of June. In the program, 14 national and 4 international awards were given in a total of 18 categories. This is the third edition of the Spiny Babbler International Film Festival 2023, which is being organized to encourage artists to be more active in the field of art and culture by competing films from home and abroad, for this edition, apart from Nepal, there are many feature length, short length, documentary and other films from different countries. There was participation. Era Production Pvt. Ltd. Kamala Joshi is the director of the program managed by

In the event, which was held under the chief hospitality of Dig Bahadur Limbu, Minister of Youth and Sports of the Government of Nepal, Mohan Niraula, President of Nepal Film Artist Association, Nawal Khadka, President of Film Producers Association, Janakdeep Parajuli, President of Film Directors Guild Nepal, Samir Balami, President of Film Journalists Association, Janak Karki, President of Film Dance Artists Association were present in the event. , President of Trade Union Congress Puskar Acharya, Chairman of Ward No. 1 of Khumbu Pasang Rural Municipality Phunuru Sherpa, Film journalist Shantipriya, Dabu Kshatri, Vijayratna Tuladhar, Bharat Bamjan, Folk singer Kulendra VK, Filmmaker Rishi Lamichhane, Dinesh Pakhrin, Rishiraj Acharya, Journalist Kuveer Giri, Vishnu Subedi, Suman Bairagi, Savita Pokharel, Tulsi Giri “Bhavub”, Lokendra Shahi, Rajan Thapa, Sarita Bharti, Suvash Pradhan, Musician Deepak Sharma, Rajendra Vajgai, Actor Tej Giri, Sheetal KC, Rupendra Shrestha , produced by Shekhar Lama. Samana Shah,

President of the organization Dr. In the program held under the chairmanship of Husned Azad, journalist Baburam Sigdel, singer Roshni Rasaili, event manager Santosh Subedi, singers Om Sunar and Amrit Khati, actresses Asha Bhushal and Usha Khanal were also honoured. Among the judges of the festival were film director Madhav Raj Kharel, dramatist Kedarnath Paudel, director Jeevan Thapa, actor Pravan Bhushal, singer Sujata KC, writer and writer Bishmaraj Phulara, music coordinator Rakesh Soni, communication man Chakra Kunwar, make-up artist Vikram Gautam, actor and choreographer. Legesh Bhattarai was the jury member. The judges watched feature films, short films and documentary films in both national and international languages.

In the program, director Dinesh Raut received the best award for movie Prakash in the national category, while Pradeep Khadka, actor and Vikas Subedi received the award in the writing category from the same film. Actress Namrata Sapkota bagged the best actress award from Desan, Darshanbir Shakya bagged the director award for the Nepali language short film Indayani, Prashann Mali from Teerkha won the West Short Film, Gyanendra Koirala from Kidnap the short film director, Dhughi Buhari from Srujana Karki the short film writer, Aham Prem from Gyanendra Khatiwada managed to win the short film cinematography award. Editor Gautam Khadraka won the editor’s award for the Bhojpuri film Kalyugaki Panchali, while Kamal Ecchai Magar won the newcomer director’s award for the film Desaan.

In the international category, Duke Box Ellington (Ireland) won Best Documentary Film, The Road (India) Best Film, Force (Iran) Best Story, The Light Bulb (Venezuela) Best Cinematography and Fiddlestreak (Egypt) to Azidine Fdel Hadi. The best director award was given.