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PANAJI
The 9th Goa State Film Festival, 2018 will be held from May 3 to 6. The inauguration will be held on Thursday May 3 at 5 pm at Maquinez Palace, Auditorium 1 followed by screening of the film K Sera Sera. The award ceremony will be held on Sunday May 6 at 5 pm followed by the screening of best film of the 9th Goa State Film Festival.
Films made between January 1, 2016 to December 2017 are eligible for this festival. Organisers have received entries of 10 feature film, out of which 9 films are konkani and one is marathi film and two are non feature films. The jury for the feature film section were Girish Kasaravalli (Chairman), Pratima Kulkarni, Ashok Patki and Meenakshi Shedde. The jury for non feature sectionwere Dhritiman Chatterjee (chairman), Amrit Pritam Dutta and Spandam Banerjee.
There are 21 awards in feature film section. Award for best film will be Rs. 5 lakhs, Second best film award will be Rs 3 lakhs, first prize for Direction will be Rs. 50000 and second prize will be Rs.35000 and rest individual awards will Rs 25000 each. Further in Non feature film section Best fiction and non fiction film will be awarded with Rs 1 lakh each. Films participated in this state award competition will be screened for public from May 3 to 6 at Maquinaz Palace, Panaji.
