48th International Film Festival of India
The 48th International Film Festival of India was held on 20 to 28 November 2017 in Goa. "Celebrating the Future of Cinema" was set as the festival's theme and registrations were opened in early October 2017. Filmmaker Sujoy Ghosh, who was appointed head of the jury of the Indian panorama section, resigned from the position on 14 November after alleging that the Ministry of Information and Broadcasting, that co-organizes the festival, dropped two films S Durga and Nude from screening in the Indian Panorama section, despite being chosen by the jury and without consulting them. Two other members Apurva Asrani and Gyan Correa quit the jury the following day. Golden Peacock (Best Film): BPM (Beats per Minute) by Robin Campillo IFFI Best Director Award: Vivian Qu for "Angels Wear White" IFFI Best Actor Award (Male): Nahuel Pérez Biscayart for BPM (Beats per Minute) IFFI Best Actor Award (Female): Parvathy for Take Off IFFI Best Debut Director Award: Kiro Russo for Dark Skull Silver Peacock Special Jury Award: Mahesh Narayanan for Take Off IFFI ICFT UNESCO Gandhi Medal: Film Kshitij A Horizon by Manouj Kadaamh. Life Time Achievement Award - Atom Egoyan IFFI Indian Film Personality of the Year Award: Amitabh Bachchan = Feature films Suresh Heblikar, filmmaker and actor Rahul Rawail, film director Satarupa Sanyal, film director, producer, actress, poet and social activist Gopi Desai, film director and actress Nishikant Kamat, filmmaker Merlvin Mukhim, actor and film producer Nikkhil Advani, Film producer, director and screenwriter Hari Viswanath, film director, screenwriter and producer Sachin Chatte, film critic Ruchi Narain, film director and screenwriter Non-feature films Sudhir Mishra, film director and screenwriter; President Tuhinabha Majumdar, film director and film writer Shankhajeet De, filmmaker Mithunchandra Chaudhari, film director Shiny Jacob Benjamin, film producer, film director and writer Tinni Mitra, film editor K. G. Suresh, journalist and columnist = = Beyond the Clouds = Thinking of Him BRICS Out of the 30 films that were screened at the second BRICS Film Festival in June 2017 in China, seven award-winning were chosen to be screened. Bond Retrospective Nine James Bond films were chosen to be featured to celebrate "over 50 years of James Bond's legacy". Dr. No (1962) Goldfinger (1964) On Her Majesty's Secret Service (1969) The Spy Who Loved Me (1977) Octopussy (1983) Licence to Kill (1989) GoldenEye (1995) The World Is Not Enough (1999) Skyfall (2012) Three committees — Preview, Steering and Technical — were constituted by the Ministry of Information and Broadcasting prior to inviting films for the festival. The Preview Committee, headed by filmmaker Vivek Agnihotri was set up to shortlist films for the festival. Filmmakers Jahnu Barua and Nagesh Kukunoor were named conveners of the Steering and Technical Committees. = A Steering Committee was set up composed of noted entertainment industry professionals: Jahnu Barua, convener Shoojit Sircar Shaji N. Karun Anand Gandhi Piyush Pandey Prasoon Joshi Siddharth Roy Kapur Vani Tripathi Tikoo Meren Imchen Ashwiny Iyer Tiwari Bharat Bala Director, National Film Development Corporation of India = A 40-member Film Preview Committee was set up to "enhance the involvement of the Indian film industry". Its members included: Vivek Agnihotri, filmmaker; convener Nitesh Tiwari, filmmaker Aniruddha Roy Chowdhury, filmmaker Bhaskar Hazarika, filmmaker Gautami Tadimalla, actress Hrishitaa Bhatt, actress Pallavi Joshi, actress Khalid Mohamed, film critic Saibal Chatterjee, film critic Bhawana Somaaya, film critic and writer Official website