Thursday, November 19, 2020

Toto Awards for Short Film 2021: Long-list

Thirty-nine filmmakers, from a list of 126 applicants, have been long-listed for the 2021 Toto Awards for Short Film. Their names, in alphabetical order, are:

1.  Aadya Pandey (New Delhi)


2.  Abhishek Verma (Ghaziabad)


3.  Ajay Singh Yadav (Indore)


4.  Amartya Ray (Kolkata) 


5.  Amit Kashyap (Muzaffarnagar)


6.  Anant Dass Sahni (Saharanpur)


7.  Animesh Vishal (Kanpur)


8.  Apoorva Satish (Chennai)


9.  Ashmita Guha Neogi (Faridabad)


10. Bibhanshu Rai (Adityapur, Jharkhand)


11. Binoy Krishna (Chemenchery, Koyilandi, Kerala)


12. Brishbhanu Baruah (Guwahati)


13. Debanjan Majhi (Kolkata)


14. Debankon Singh Solanky (New Delhi)


15. Devshree Nath (Lucknow)


16. Dhruv Tripathi (Mumbai) 


17. Gagan Dev (Ernakulam)


18. Gautam Gulati (Kaushambi, UP)


19. Grace Mary Sukanya (New Delhi)


20. Hyder Habib (Srinagar)


21. Kunika Kharat (Mumbai)


22. Lokesh Deshmukh (Pune)


23. Megha Acharya (New Delhi)


24. Nainisha Dedhia (Mumbai)


25. Niladri Mukherjee (Udaipur)


26. Rohit Kumar (Machhargawan, Bihar)


27. Rohith S (Bengaluru)


28. Sachin S (Kozhikode)


29. Sanju Jayvant Kadu (Raigad, Maharashtra)


30. Savyasachi Anju Prabir (Ambarnath, Maharashtra)


31. Shubham Sharma (Amritsar)


32. Shuchi Prasad (New Delhi)


33. Suraj Uddhav Madhale (Ratnagiri, Maharashtra)


34. Syed Arbab Ahmad (New Delhi)


35. Syeda Arfa Anam (Bengaluru)


36. Tathagata Ghosh (Howrah)


37. Thomas George (Kanjoor, Kerala)


38. Vrushabh Maitri (Bidar, Karnataka


39. Yashasvi Juyal (Dehradun)


TFA is very pleased to note that many filmmakers on the long-list are from places outside the major cities. The shortlist, which will be decided by a three-member jury, will be announced in January 2021 and the two winners, who will receive a cash prize of Rs 50,000 each, in February 2021. 


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