Posts Tagged ‘Tamil film’


Making a Singpore film in Tamil

By Editor - March 19th, 2010

Making a Singpore film in Tamil

MOST of the members of his team may not have understood his film, but that didn’t stop N. Mohamed Yahssir’s short Tamil film, CheckMATE, from bagging four awards at the Panasonic Digital Film Fiesta. The 25-year-old freelance television and film director and producer’s 11-minute movie that follows a conversation between a nine-year-old boy and a 50-year-old man over a chess game won the Best Film, Best Cinematography and Audience Favourite Film awards at the competition.



‘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.