National award-winning independent filmmaker
Amartya Bhattacharyya’s short silent documentary on the cyclone
Fani
,
Mercy of God
, has won six major awards at the 12th
NoHu International Short Film Festival
2019 in
New Jersey
, USA.
The film got the Best Short Film award, while Amartya was declared Best Director and Kisaloy Roy was awarded for the Best Original Score. Amartya also bagged Best Editing and Best Cinematography awards, while the short’s presenter bagged the Best Producer award.
The festival also screened eight films from different parts of the world. Mercy of God, a silent portrait of
Odisha after the
cyclone Fani, was the only film from India.
The extremely severe cyclone, which hit Odisha on May 3 this year, affected the lives of people in remote villages in Puri, Cuttack and Khorda districts of Odisha. Amartya, who had visited these rural areas post cyclone, witnessed its severity and captured the huge damage and loss caused to people. He has dedicated the film to the cyclone affected people of Odisha.
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