Film: Three Little Pigs
Student: Akanito Assumi & Bhavana Vyas
Guide:Nina Sabnani
Awards & Recognition:
(1) International Animation Day 2006, Special Mention, ASIFA India, Mumbai
(2) Chitrakatha’07,Jury’s Special Mention, Indian entry

Animation film 'Quien Engana No Gana' (He Who Cheats Doesn’t Win) by Isabel Herguera, Animac, Spain has won the Best Experimental Vídeo at 33 Jornada de Cinema Internacional da Bahia 2006,Brazil.

Animation film 'Swoosh' by Ranveer Singh Sambhi has won the Silver Conch, MIFF 2006, Mumbai.

Animation film 'Dhara' by Ganesh Gothwal has won the award Silver Conch, MIFF 2006, Mumbai.

Animation film 'The Rain Dance' by Vijay Kumar Arumugam has won the International Animation Day 2006, Best Student Animation Category Award, ASIFA India, Mumbai.

Animation film 'Boond' by Kavita Singh has won the Silver Conch,
MIFF 2006, Mumbai

Special Mention of the Jury
ONE SHOW LESS, a documentary film (on the gradual demise of the single-screen cinema halls) by NAYANTARA KOTIAN (a senior UG student of  Film & Video at NID) has been AWARDED SPECIAL MENTION OF THE JURY at the 6TH KARACHI INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL, held in December 2006 in Karachi, Pakistan.

The Jury's Comment (on 'One Show Less') - "for its profound yet simple approach to storytelling"

http://www.karafilmfest.com/index.htm
http://www.karafilmfest.com/KaraFilm2006/awards.htm

Lakme Fashion Week 2006
Seven Students of Apparel Design and Merchandising along with Textile Design students namely, Rahul and Firdos, Deepti Toor, Ajeet Mishra, Amit Vijaya and Richard Pandav and Tejaswini Kulkarni, had been selected to present their collection at National Level “Lakme Fashion Week 2006”.

Best Jewelry Award
Best Jewelry Award won by student Shreya Bankaria in jewelry competition organized by DTC 2006.

Kingfisher Fashion Calendar 2006
Award won by student Shreya Bankaria in Kingfisher Fashion Calendar 2006.

World Of Wearable International Competition
Two student (Rahul Mishra and Laxmi Subramanium) finalists in World Of Wearable International Competition, New Zealand, 2006.

“Mittelmoda” International Fashion Competition 2006
Two student Finalists (Rajsekaran and Amit Kumar) in “Mittelmoda” International Fashion Competition 2006 held at Milan.

Best Institute in Apparel Training for year 2005-06
NID as an institution Being Awarded (National Award) as Best Institute in Apparel Training for year 2005-06 by Clothing Manufacturers Association of India (CMAI).

Best Documentary Award
NAYANTARA KOTIAN'S documentary film ONE SHOW LESS has WON THE BEST DOCUMENTARY AWARD at the ASIAN FESTIVAL OF 1ST FILMS, held in the first week of December 2006 in Singapore.
(http://www.asianfirstfilms.com/
http://www.afff2006.blogspot.com/)

"The Best Work by an Author Under 25 Years" Prize
MEGHA LAKHANI'S documentary film PRAKASH TRAVELLING CINEMA has
WON"THE BEST WORK BY AN AUTHOR UNDER 25 YEARS" PRIZE at Badalona International Short Film Festival, held in November 2006 at Badalona, Barcelona, Spain. She gets 750 Euros as Prize money.
(http://www.rcb.es/rcb/programes/fx/festivalfilmets/Home/Home02.html
http://www.rcb.es/rcb/programes/fx/festivalfilmets/Novetatspremsa/
novetatspremsa02.html)

Best Documentary Film Award
MEGHA LAKHANI'S documentary film PRAKASH TRAVELLING CINEMA has won the BEST DOCUMENTARY FILM award at the "Ashvita Short Film & Photography Competition", held in October 2006 in Chennai.

FLY BY RED SHOES by HARSHA NAGARAJU won the BEST ANIMATION FILM award in the same event.

Best Long Non-Fiction Film Award
"One Show Less", a student documentary project of Nayantara Kotian , a senior UG student of Film & Video at NID has won the award - Best Long
Non-Fiction Film at the National Students Video Film Festival organized by the Jahangirabad Media Institute between 15-16 April 2006
( http://jmimedia.org/award.htm )

Besides a citation and a memento, Nayantara will also receive a cash prize
of Rs.20,000 for her documentary One Show Less (on the demise of
single-screen cinema halls in Ahmedabad).

One Show Less had earlier won the Special Mention of the Jury at the
International Students Short Film Festival of Cergy-Pontoise, France and
First Prize at Jeevika South Asian Livelihood Documentary Festival, New
Delhi.

Five NID films bag IDPA Awards
5 NID student films have received the IDPA (Indian Documentary Producers' Association / http://www.idpaindia.org) AWARDS FOR EXCELLENCE 2005, in a gala ceremony held on Saturday March 25, 2006 in Mumbai.

IDPA is India 's single largest association of producers of documentaries, animation films, advertisement films and TV programmes.

The NID IDPA AWARDS FOR EXCELLENCE 2005 are :

1. RHEA DASGUPTA for " WITHIN ' (1st prize in the Student Documentary category)
Jury: for the intelligent handling of a complex subject.

2. ADITYAN M. for " BANNUBHAI SHEHNAIWALA " (2nd prize in the Student Documentary category)
Jury: for its evocative, lyrical, unusual and intelligent use of the cinematic idiom.

3. CHAITANYA MODAK for " SPARROW'S TEARS " (2nd prize in the Public Service Communication category)
Jury: deserves special mention for its creative use of imagery.

4. KAVITA SINGH for " BOOND " (1st prize in the Student Animation category)
Jury: for a sensitive, touching story which is told simply yet powerfully.

5. ASWINI KUMAR SATAPATHY for " ARK - THE LAST SUNRISE AT KONARK " (2nd prize in the Student Animation category)
Jury: for its poetic technique and mix of non-abstract and imagined, real and fantasy elements.

Besides these, two ex-students of Animation from NID (Vaibhav Kumaresh for 'Amaron Pandu Mangal' and E. Suresh for 'DTC Kohinoor') also got the joint 1st prize in the Animation film category

NID at Ibda'a Media Student Awards 2006, Dubai
The student fiction project of Aloke Shetty , 2nd Yr PG student of Film & Video at NID, has been chosen (under Film/TV feature category) to be part of the select group at Ibda'a Media Student Awards 2006, being held at Dubai by Dubai Media City between 21st - 25th April 2006.

(http://www.dubaimediacity.ae). Dubai Media City will host Aloke Shetty during the event and meet all expenses. Other NID students joining him at Dubai are - Ranveer Singh Sahmbi (Animation) and Gaytri Gunjal
(Analogue Photography).

NID at Article 19 Express Awards
National Institute of Design, Ahmedabad has been adjudged the Best College for 2005 as part of Express Awards , which in turn is part of Manipal Institute of Communication's annual national level communication fest called Article 19 (www.article-19.com).

Express Awards was held for the first time last year. Out of the seven awards at stake, four were bagged by NID students. The Awards ceremony was held on March 19, 2006 .

The names of the NID student winners are:

Adityan M.
Winner of Film Express for his film 'Yeh Dil'
Course: Post Graduation in Film & Video Communication

Amit Shah
Winner of Documentary Express for his film 'Hoon'.
Course: Post Graduation in Film & Video Communication

Girish Sheetal
Winner of Photo Express for 'Mamma'
Course: Graduation in Film & Video Communication

Praveen K
Winner of Story Express for his story 'Woman who loved stories'.
Course: Post Graduation in Toy Design and Development

Top Awards at MIFF 2006 for NID Film & Video and
Animation Student Films !

HITESH KEWALYA , a NID Film & Video student, has won the BEST FICTION FILM (Upto 75 Mins / National Competition) AWARD (he gets the GOLDEN CONCH and a CASH PRIZE of Rs.1,50,000/-) for his NID Diploma film "Nothing Happens On This Turn / Is Modh Par Kuch Nahin Hota" at the 9th Mumbai International Film Festival (MIFF) for Documentary, Short & Animation films (organised by Films Division, Ministry of Information & Broadcasting, Govt. of India), between 3-9 Feb, 2006.

The Jury said about Hitesh's film - for its refreshing and youthful style of narrating routine events in our life. While taking a dig at the state of Reality TV shows in India today, it is also an experiment in the scripting of parallel narratives.

Another NID Film & Video student AMIT SHAH jointly shared with another documentary film the NATIONAL JURY AWARD for his NID Diploma film ‘HOON' . He gets a CASH PRIZE of Rs.50,000/-.

The Jury said about Amit's film - for the way in front of the camera's eye, the metamorphosis of women is captured.  Women who had been silent and submissive perhaps for the first time openly question their roles in relation to men. As the film unfolds, we see that the director whilst developing the story, helped in changing deep rooted traditional notions, both of the subject and perhaps also of the audience - a significant achievement in the digital medium with a mere 45 minutes.

Other NID students receiving Awards at MIFF 2006 include -

a) SECOND BEST ANIMATION FILM (National Competition) / jointly shared by ‘DHARA' directed by GANESH GOTHWAL .
Jury - For its very unique technique of Origami to communicate a simple story well told.  The circular plot completes the narrative and leaves the audience happy

‘SWOOSH' directed by RANVEER SINGH SAHMBI .  
Jury - The films stylized backgrounds and visualizations are a treat.  The use of humour in storytelling and a strong punch line in the end is a ‘cut' above the rest!

Ganesh And Ranveer get the CASH PRIZE of Rs.37,500/- each and SILVER CONCH 

b) SECOND BEST ANIMATION FILM (International Competition)
(jointly shared with another non-NID animation film)

‘BOOND' directed by KAVITA SINGH
Jury - for it's touching memorial to a lost friend.

Kavita gets the CASH PRIZE of Rs. 50,000/- and SILVER CONCH.