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The inaugural edition of Frameboxx‘ Frameflixx awards held today at the Bhaidas Auditorium at Vile Parle, Mumbai was a resounding success, ringing in a sense of deja vu and nostalgia as the awards celebrated Animation, live action and VFX driven film making. The industry members were present too along with a huge crowd of around 900+ Frameboxx students from all over. The founders Rajesh Turakhia and Naveen Gupta along with their team including Shravni Chopra, Lalit Wadhwani, Tajinder Singh, Biswajeet Das, Satpreet Bhamrah, Faheem Siddiqui, Prabhanjan Chappar, Paresh Parekh, Ruchi Parekh along with a few missing members including Sachin Bhatnagar & Yogendra Bhangley ensured that they created a platform that was focused and in sync with Industry requirements and the spirit of animation.
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The best film winners at Frameflixx, Frameboxx Kamla Nagar Delhi for My India My Pride. A jubiliant Navneet Singh with the trophy as Rajesh Turakhia, Naveen Gupta look on along with the winning team Sankalp Tiwari, Juhi Gupta, Priyanka Gupta, Angana Adhikari and faculty members Jyoti Aneja & Gogo.
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Familiar Industry faces and artists at Frameflixx included the Jury members Vaibhav Kumaresh, Uttam Pal Singh, Aijaz Rashid, Biju D, Xavier Roig. Others included Sean Craig of Sececa, James Butler and Joyce Chitstopher of Anglia Ruskin University and actor Darshan Zariwala. Some of the jury members not present at the show included Greg Acuna, Pankaj Khandpur, Seshaprasad and Veerendra Patil.
Also present at the event were Ranjit Tony Singh, Arvind Chudasama, Satish Mutatkar, Santosh Kale, HP‘s Ravindra Singh, Microsoft‘s Vinayak D, CG Tantra‘s RK Chand, Nvidia‘s Prasad Phadke amongst others.
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The ceremony had a total of 13 awards across 4 categories, plus the top three best films which were My India, My Pride (Frameboxx Kamla Nagar), Child‘s Play (Frameboxx Chandigarh), My Friend Nojo (Frameboxx South Ex). While My India My Pride was the universal favorite and received a standing ovation for its concept and execution, the AnimationXpress team favorites for 2nd and 3rd were Jab We Met Again and Stuk!
The TBS Digicon prize ceremony was included within the Frameflixx proceedings and the prizes and certificates for the 14 winners including professionals and students were also handed over at the function. A word and more to be reserved for the magnetic manner in which host Mohan Kapur held the longish ceremony alive with his compering.
The day‘s proceedings began with the lighting of the lamp at the hands of the Chief Guest Manmohan Shetty. Rajesh Turakhia, founder of the company began stating, “The last fifteen months in my life have been the most exciting and a great award as well. To say about running fifty centers in such a short span of time in cricketing terms, we have hit the fastest fifty in the industry.”
Speaking to Animationxpress, Rajesh Turakhia shared “The important aspect of making a film is team work and the idea was to make students learn to work as a team. The response from the participants has been fantastic and it is heartening to see such creativity among them in their films.”
Before the Frameflixx animation awards for the best movie were announced was the screening of the 2d animation movie “Ek Chidia”. The surprise screening in the function was a glimpse of its 3d version that is being done by Frameboxx as a dedication to animation.
Naveen Gupta shared “There were quite a few things that we wanted to achieve through this competition. We wanted to inculcate the competitive spirit and to work in a team among the students right in the early stages. This was a nice platform to showcase their talent and also understand the industry workflow in making a movie.”
All the short films screened were outstanding in more than one way or the other either in terms of the modeling, 3D animation, concept and direction giving a perfect start to the 1st Annual Frameflixx Awards.
Following is the list of Frameflixx Awards, followed by the TBS Digicon Awards list.
Nominations for the best animation movie award
‘My Friend Noju’ – Southex, Delhi
‘Afgan Patshala’ – Greater Kailash, Delhi
‘Short Cirkit’ – East Kailash, Delhi
‘Stuk’ – Gurgoan
‘The New Car’ – Pusa Road, Delhi
‘Fear’ – Pitampura, Delhi
‘Jaago’ – Bangalore
‘Stop Power Theft’ – Bhopal
‘Jab We Met Again’ – Bandra
‘Child’s Play’ – Chandigarh
‘A Mistake’ – Ammerpet, Hyderabad
‘My India My Pride’ – Kamala nagar, Delhi
Frameflixx best animation film award
Winner: ‘My India My Pride’ – Frameboxx, Kamla Nagar, Delhi
Runner: ‘Child’s Play’ – Frameboxx, Chandigarh
Second Runner: ‘My Friend Noju’ – Frameboxx Southex, Delhi
Frameflixx grand challenger award 2009 (Winners Names)
Visual effects - Divyan Meharotra, ICAT, Chennai.
Animation – Paranjeet Singh, Frameboxx Chandigarh.
Live action – Varun Sahu, Frameboxx Bandra
Motion-graphics – Ashwetha & Oniel, Frameboxx Andheri
Student category Demo reel
Best Pre production - K.Prabhudas - Frameboxx, Dilskuhnagar
Best Production – Subu Ranga Reddy – Frameboxx, Ameerpet
Best Post production – Harneet Singh – Frameboxx, Chandigarh
Frameflixx live action award
‘Half the Truth’ – Frameboxx, Chandigarh
‘Super Sach’ – Frameboxx, Delhi
TBS Digicon Awards
First Prize - NID for "Chai Break"
Second Prize - NID for "- o200"
Third Prize - Famous - E Suresh for "Sulekha.com - "
Honorable Mention - Vaibhav Studio - "Ooga Booga - Samba Mamba"
Prize of effort - NID for Kopai for "The last visit to river".
Prize of effortt - Dhimant Vyas for "Taare Zameen par title sequence"
Prize of effort - NID for "Dream of the carpet"
Prize of effort - Toonz Animation academy for "Line of Control"
Prize of effort - Santosh Kale for "Killing the Fittest"
Prize of effort - Arena Animation Andheri for "Use Condom"
Prize of effort - Famous - E Suresh for" Aala re Aala"
Prize of effort - Vaibhav Studio for" 3x9 sequence TZP"
Prize of effort - Shyam Salunke for "Passion of Cricket"
Prize of effort - IDC for "Shadow"
Prize of effort - Uttam Pal Singh & Gitanjali for "PhatFish"
“The whole experience of making the movie has been fantastic and a very good learning experience for us and we are proud our hard work over more than eight months has paid off and been recognized” said the ecstatic team ‘PeeK a Boo’ from Frameboxx - Kamala Nagar, Delhi.
“It feels really wonderful to be recognized for our creation. Our hard work behind the computers has paid off at the end. It is an appreciation and recognition to our work” said Frameboxx Technical Operations VP Tajinder Jeet Singh
“When I started off with this film, it was supposed to be an individual venture. I had worked on the pre production for a month and then jumped into the production. There was a competition on the theme ‘What on earth is going on?’ Along with team of three we worked on the film with assistance from the faculty. I would like to specially thank Mr. Sachin Bhatnagar, Chaitan Sareen and my parents” said Ankur.
Stay tuned as we bring you updates and interviews with the teams of these budding film makers!
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