Haobam Paban Kumar's 'Nine Hills One Valley' to compete in Ottawa Indian Film Festival Awards 2022
Source: The Sangai Express
Imphal, June 11 2022:
Haobam Paban Kumar's second feature- Nine Hills One Valley (2020) has been travelling in the international film festival circuit after it had its world premiere at the 16th edition of Jogja-NETPAC Asian Film Festival 2021 held from November 27 to December 4 at Yogyakarta in Indonesia.
The film was screened in the India Gold section of the 22nd Jio MAMI Mumbai Film Festival 2022 held in February and has participated in the 1st International Tribal Film Festival (ITFF) 2022 held in March in Arunachal Pradesh, said a press release by the president of Film Society of Manipur.
The film also entered into the 17th International Film Festival Thrissur (25 Mar - 7 April 2022) Kerala for FIPRESCI prize and the competition section of the Asian Select Category of the 27th Kolkata International Film Festival 2022 in April in Kolkata.
Recently, Nine Hills One Valley was selected among the top 10 Indian Films of 2021 Nominated for Fipresci-India Grand-Prix-2021 .
IMDb (Internet Movie Database) also uploaded the Top- 10 Indian Films of 2021 in its website.
Then, the film will travel to Canada for the Ottawa Indian Film Festival Awards 2022 to be held from June 14 to 18 in Ottawa, the capital of Canada.
In this 5th edition of Ottawa Festival, Nine Hills One Valley will be in the competition section with other 11 films.
Haobam Paban Kumar's Nine Hills One Valley evokes the futility and barbarism of ethnic conflict through the journey of a Tangkhul man travelling to Imphal City.
Haobam Paban Kumar is one of the leading independent filmmakers of India who has been honoured with the title- Legend of Indian Cinema by the Ministry of Information and Broadcasting, Government of India in the 50th International film festival of India 2019, added the release.