Adding yet another feather in its cap, Nishtha Jain’s documentary Gulabi Gang has won the First Amnesty International Best Human Rights Film Award at the recently concluded Tri-continental Film Festival which takes place in three cities in South Africa –Johannesburg, Cape Town and Pretoria. The festival was held from September 13-29, 2013.
Gulabi Gang competed with ten other films adjudged by a team of 3 renowned South Africans; Ferial Haffagee, an award winning journalist and Editor of City Press, Mark Heywood, social justice activist and Executive Director of Section 27, and Lebo Mashile, a poet, actor and advocate for human rights.
The Tri-Continental Human Rights Film Festival screens powerful films from South Africa and across the globe, exploring some of the most urgent local and global issues of our time.
Gulabi Gang had earlier this year won the Amnesty Award at the 10th edition of Planete+ Doc Film Festival in Poland.
The...
Gulabi Gang competed with ten other films adjudged by a team of 3 renowned South Africans; Ferial Haffagee, an award winning journalist and Editor of City Press, Mark Heywood, social justice activist and Executive Director of Section 27, and Lebo Mashile, a poet, actor and advocate for human rights.
The Tri-Continental Human Rights Film Festival screens powerful films from South Africa and across the globe, exploring some of the most urgent local and global issues of our time.
Gulabi Gang had earlier this year won the Amnesty Award at the 10th edition of Planete+ Doc Film Festival in Poland.
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- 9/30/2013
- by NewsDesk
- DearCinema.com
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