Eikhoigi Yum : Audience Choice Award at 8th Indie Meme Film Festival
- at Austin city, USA :: April 12 to 16, 2023 -
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Romi Meitei - Director of Eikhoigi Yum :: Pix - TSE
From The Sangai Express - April 18 2023
Romi Meitei's highly acclaimed film Eikhoigi Yum (Our Home) has bagged the Audience Choice Award for the Best Narrative Feature at the 8th Indie Meme Film Festival 2024 held at Austin city, USA.
Eikhoigi Yum was honoured with the Audience Choice Award out of 35 South Asian films at the festival held from April 12 to 16 . The film carries the message of safeguarding the environment in the face of increasing pace of globalization.
It is worth noting that in the past Romi Meitei's Eikhoigi Yum has been honoured with the FIPRESCI Award for Best International Film as well as Best Feature Film award at the 14th Manipur State Film Awards 2022 along with five other awards.
The cast of the film includes Ningthoujam Priyojit, Bhumeshore, Sorri Senjam and Nganthoibi with Debajit Gayan as the sound designer, Johny and Bikram as cinematographer; Demba Meitei as production designer and Sheetal Chingsubam and Romi Meitei taking the helm as producer under the banner of Thangarakpa Living Frames.
The film has also been officially selected to be screened at the 45th Moscow International Film Festival set to begin from April 22 .
From The People's Chronicle - April 18 2023
Renowned Mayanglambam Romi Meitei's film, "Eikhoigi Yum" (Our Home) has won the Audience Choice Award for Best Narrative Feature at the Indie Meme Film Festival, 2023, which was held in Austin, USA from April 12 to 16 . Altogether, 35 films from South Asia participated in the festival.
"Eikhoigi Yum" highlights the importance of protecting the natural ecosystem amidst the need for development.
The film has already won the prestigious FIPRESCI award for Best International Film, presented by the International Critic Forum, in addition to bagging Best Feature Film and five other awards at the Manipur State Film Awards.
The cast of the film includes master Priyojit, Nganthoibi, Bhumeshore and Sorri Senjam; while the crew consisted of Debajit Gayan (sound design), Johny and Bikram (cinematography) and Demba Meitei (production design) .
The film has been jointly produced by Romi Meitei and Sheetal Chingsubam under the banner of Thangarakpa Living Frames. It is also going to premiere at the 45th Moscow International Film Festival on April 22 as one of the official selections.
Since 2013, Indie Meme has brought South Asian Cinema to the heart of Texas through the signature yearly event, the Indie Meme Film Festival. Cinema enthusiasts joined the festival from many countries like India, Nepal, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, Afghanistan, Iran, and Bhutan.
Selected projects range from social realist dramas to independent horror, family epics to romantic comedies, documentaries, and even experimental shorts, the organisers said.
* This information was published in The Sangai Express - April 18 2023
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