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Here are the winners of The Flying Competition 2017

The second day of Animation Masters Summit observed the winners for The Flying Elephant Competition – that had seen 925 entries this from countries all over the world – being announced. Awards were given to the winner, runner-up and second runner-up.

The following are the categories, nominations and the winners:

Animation Short Films

The Cliff House (Malaysia) – winner
Director: Lih haur

Oh Bey (Indonesia) – 2nd prize
Director: Gloria Abigail

Close Circuit (Taiwan) – 3rd prize
Director: Po-Han

Rain Lotus (China)
Director: Joe Chang

Venika Mitra receiving prize for winning under the ‘Live Action Short Film’ category

Live Action Short Film

All I Want (India) – winner
Director: Venika Mitra

Swap (Afganistan) – 2nd prize
Director: Masood Eslami

Wajood (India) – 3rd prize
Director: Vishal Srivastava

Hawa (Malaysia)
Director: Tan Ce Ding

Short Film – Student Category

Planto (India) – winner
Director: Akhil Narayanan

Bicycle (Afganistan) – 2nd prize
Director: Zainab Entezar

Umaa (India) – 3rd prize
Director: Moumita Saha

Swaeer – The Unbound (India)
Director: Aditi Dravid

The runner-ups were awarded with certificates and the winners were given the prestigious Flying Elephant trophy along with the certificate. Avaneesh M (Toonz Media Group, development head) delivered the vote of thanks, specially thanking the Masters, chief guests, special guests, their CEO Jayakumar, his team and lastly his team-mate and festival director Anoop Vince (Toonz Media Group, business analyst).

Akhil Narayanan receiving prize for winning under the ‘Short Film – Student Category’
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