Filmmaker Vinod Ganatra receives Nelson Mandela Lifetime Achievement Award
Filmmaker Vinod Ganatra receives Nelson Mandela Lifetime Achievement Award
Eminent children’s filmmaker Vinod Ganatra emerges as the first Indian to be honoured with South Africa’s prestigious ‘Nelson Mandela Lifetime Achievement Award’ for his outstanding contribution to children’s cinema. The award was presented to him at the 7th Nelson Mandela Children’s Film Festival.
Notably, Vinod Ganatra is a trailblazer in Children’s Films
He is a Globally eminent filmmaker and editor from Gujarat, based in Mumbai.
He has edited and directed about 400 documentaries and newsreels, Produced 25 multilingual television programs for children and youth.
His first TV program, ‘Baingan Raja,’ won for him the ‘Janakinath Gaur Award’ from Doordarshan
His Gujarati film ‘Harun Arun,’ made on the India-Pakistan border, received the ‘Liv Ullmann Peace Prize’ at the 26th Chicago International Children’s Film Festival
The only Indian to have won the prestigious ‘Liv Ullmann Peace Prize’
He is the proud recipient of 36 national and international awards
He was conferred with the ‘Dadasheb Phalke Lifetime Achievement Award’ by the Association of Film and Video Editors and he has also
served as a jury member for over 100 national, regional, and international film festivals worldwide.
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