VIVA SUNITA
by AMITABH SINHA & LOLITA SARKAR - Best Direction

We direct commercials. Usually. A lot of people's views have to be taken on board... The idea of an independent project, or at least a personal interpretation of a communication is tempting stuff.

Question when making film is: What is 'something to say'? What should one talk about when one 'talks about oneself'? So you wait...

Calvino is no mere writer - he has the precision of a surgeon and a poet. The pictures, the idea, the narrative... are all... very clear.

We can't talk about our own sensibility with any real success, but we tried to follow something Calvino said after decades of writing, which caught our fancy - he said he'd spent forever learning what to leave out.

Devang Vyas at Fuji India gave us 16mm film stock, Vishal Sinha, our cinematographer 'lent' us his camera and his services. Lights were provided free by Mulchand at Lights & Grips. Almost all the actors did not charge for their work.

BOARD OF DEATH
by ALASTAIR FERRAN - Special Mention

When scientist Jack Graham returns from the jungles of Peru, he has a new leap in pharmaceutical medicine in his possession.

Hunted by those who will stop at nothing to get their hands on it, he is pursued by a pair of hired assassins named Mr Smith and Mr Jones.

Alastair Ferran