Posts Tagged ‘short film’


‘Vanni Mouse’ wins best fiction award in international film festival

By Editor - March 15th, 2010

‘Vanni Mouse’ wins best fiction award in international film festival

A Tamil short film directed by a diaspora Eezham Tamil winning the best award in an international festival is seen as a first with the short film titled ‘Vanni Mouse’, which has won the best film award in the fiction category in the nine-day 11th International Short and Independent Film Festival (ISIFF) at the Shaukat Osman auditorium of Central Public Library in Dhaka on Friday. Commenting on the award, Barrister S. J. Joseph of Eelavar Cine Arts Council, based in London told TamilNet on Monday that this was the first time an Eezham Tamil artist being awarded at an international film festival.



Pakkathiveedu; Next Door – A short film by Lenin Sivam

By Editor - March 2nd, 2010

Pakkathiveedu; Next Door - A short film by Lenin Sivam

You may all have heard of Lenin Sivam. For those of you who may not, Lenin Sivam is the filmmaker behind the Tamil film 1999, which was premiered at the Vancouver International Film Festival. I was on Youtube and I found some links to his 2007 short film Next Door. Here are the links.