Phum-Shang bags 62nd National Film Award for Best Investigative Film
Another feather in Paban Kumar's cap
Source: The Sangai Express
Imphal, March 24 2015:
Haobam Paban Kumar's film Phum-Shang (floating life) is among the films selected for the 62nd National Film Awards 2014 .
Phum-Shang, a 52 minutes film of renowned film maker Haobam Paban Kumar and produced by Film Division, Mumbai has bagged the 62nd National Film Award for Best Investigative Film.
The Rajat Kamal and a cash prize of Rs 50,000 will be awarded to the film maker.
The film has been selected for the award for its quiet and fair-hearted investigation of the fishermen communities and their floating dwellings on Loktak Lake, Manipur, even as Government agencies and conservationists struggle to save the lake.
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Paban Kumar is an alumni of Satyajit Ray Film and Television Institute, Kolkata.
His documentary film, AFSPA 1958 won several awards including the FIPRESCI prize at Mumbai International Film Festival, 2006 .
His next film A cry in the Dark was world premiered at the Toronto Film Festival 2006, shown at MOMA New York, telecast at YLE Finland and got a special jury mention at the One World Human Rights Film Festival, Chezkoslowakia 2007 .
Some of his films like Ngaihak Lambida (fiction), The First Leap, Mr India and AFSPA 1958 were screened in Indian Panorama Section, IFFI, Goa.
Paban Kumar was among the six emerging talents to represent India at Cannes Film Festival in 2011, a National Film Development Corporation, India initiative.