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Algorithms nominated for British National Film Awards 2015
Algorithms is up for Best Documentary in the inaugural British National Film Awards. Winner will be decided by a public vote, open to all around the world.
http://nationalfilmawards.co.uk/nominations-announced-national-film-awards-2015/
Vote Algorithms here!
http://nationalfilmawards.co.uk/vote-now/
Algorithms nominated for a prestigious Grierson Award, 2014!
Algorithms nominated for British National Film Awards 2015
Algorithms is up for Best Documentary in the inaugural British National Film Awards. Winner will be decided by a public vote, open to all around the world.
http://nationalfilmawards.co.uk/nominations-announced-national-film-awards-2015/
Vote Algorithms here!
http://nationalfilmawards.co.uk/vote-now/
Algorithms that was earlier shortlisted for Grierson: the British Documentary Awards in Best Newcomer Category has now been nominated for the award.
http://www.griersontrust.org/grierson-awards-the-british-documentary-awards/nominations.html
20 Sept 2014
Dear Cinema
Algorithms nominated for Grierson Award
http://dearcinema.com/news/algorithms-nominated-grierson-award/5301
21 Sept 2014
Times of India
Algorithms on final list for Griersons award
Algorithms shortlisted for Grierson: the British Documentary Awards
in Best Newcomer Category
Algorithms has been shortlisted for a prestigious Grierson Award, 2014. Up for the Best Newcomer Award, it is the only Indian production in the shortlists. Known as the British Documentary Awards, this award is a coveted honour for filmmakers from across the globe. Final nominations will be announced on 16 September prior to the awards ceremony at The Queen Elizabeth Hall, London on 3 November.
http://www.griersontrust.org/grierson-awards-the-british-documentary-awards/shortlist.html
31 July 2014
Dear Cinema
Algorithms shortlisted for Grierson: the British Documentary Awards
http://dearcinema.com/news/algorithms-shortlisted-grierson-british-documentary-awards/2251
1 Aug 2014
All Lights
Algorithms made its way to Grierson awards
13 Aug 2014
Indian Television.com
‘Algorithms’ shortlisted for Britain’s Grierson Awards
18 Aug 2014
India Today
Can it win the Best Newcomer Documentary Prize?
http://indiatoday.intoday.in/story/british-documentary-awards-ian-mcdonald/1/376096.html
Algorithms Wins Best Story Award
Screened in competition at the Krasnogorski International Festival of Sport Films, Moscow. Algorithms won the Best Story Award.
http://www.sportsfilm.ru/en/
Algorithms at ACJ
Algorithms at Asian College of Journalism Chennai jointly organized by British Council and ACJ on 22 Feb 2014.
https://www.facebook.com/ACJofficial/posts/267636013403195
https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=269282239905239&set=a.269282193238577.1073741846.264497373717059&type=1&theater
http://www.flickr.com/photos/ukinindia/12899470584/
In The Hindu
In The New Indian Express
Algorithms Wins Best Editing Award
Screened in International Competition at Mumbai International Film Festival for Shorts and Documentaries, the premiere documentary festival of India, organized by Films Division, Mumbai. Algorithms won the Best Editing Award.
The citation for the award that Algorithms received from an eminent jury headed by Anand Patwardhan:
“Striking black and white images convey the abstract beauty of chess inside the young blind boys’ extraordinary minds. Masterful arrangement of what must have been vast quantities of material, spreading over years and continents, creates an almost palpable sense of suspense, bringing us closer to the protagonists and enabling us to share their disappointments and hopes”.
For more details visit:
MIFF
http://miff.in/miff2014-award-winning-films/
Statesman
http://www.thestatesman.net/news/38694-An-algorithm-of-seeing.html
Mathrubhumi
http://digitalpaper.mathrubhumi.com/226387/Outside-Kerala/09-February-2014#page/19/1
Mumbai Boss
http://mumbaiboss.com/2014/02/03/best-of-the-mumbai-international-film-festival-2014/
Live Mint
Algorithms at World Chess Championship
At the invitation of FIDE, Algorithms screened at the World Chess Championship Match between Viswanathan Anand and Magnus Carlsen in Chennai, India. On 21 Nov 2013, the film had a full house followed by a long and lively discussion.
Algorithms in the official World Chess Championship website
http://chennai2013.fide.com/a-unique-documentary-algorithms-four-moves-in-we-are-all-blind/
In Star Vijay TV
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g1r63oE91Zw
In Chessdom
http://www.chessdom.com/blind-chess-film-receives-plaudits-at-the-world-chess-championship/
In New Indian Express
In Mathrubhumi
http://digitalpaper.mathrubhumi.com/187433/Mathrubhumi/20-November-2013#page/29/1
Algorithms Wins Prix du Patrimoine Culturel Immateriel
Screened in competition at the Jean Rouch International Film Festival, Paris, France. Algorithms won the Prix du Patrimoine Culturel Immateriel.
http://comitedufilmethnographique.com/palmares-award-winning-films-2013/
Algorithms wins Best Film Trophy
Algorithms won the prestigious Ram Bahadur Trophy for Best Film at the 9th Film South Asia (FSA) festival held in Kathmandu, Nepal. Film Southasia is an important biennial documentary festival and shows the best docs to come out of South Asia in the past two years.
The citation for the Ram Bahadur Tamang Trophy for Best Film that Algorithms received from an eminent jury at Film South Asia:
“Once in a while, a film comes along that can surprise with the elegance it evokes through simplicity. For telling a simple, moving story that delivers us, right from the outset, into the thick of the extraordinary universe of a handful of blind boys dreaming of becoming International Grand Masters in chess; for its fluid narration of the practical barriers they need to overcome and the enabling human bonds that mitigate their disability; for taking us close to a demonstration that fingers can ‘see’; for its dispassionate humour in noting the tensions of the sighted as against the restraint of the sightless players; and for magically and incrementally evoking deep emotions out of singularly non-narrative material rendered in the fluent abstraction of B&W, the Jury picked Algorithms, from India, by Ian McDonald. The Jury also felt compelled to remark on the grace and near balletic finesse of the camera-work that, throughout, hardly seemed intrusive and the seamless editing that gave the film a poetic quality.”
Jury Chairman Sadanand Menon, distinguished art, media and film critic, India.
Shahidul Alam, internationally renowned photographer, writer and curator from Dhaka.
Sapana Sakya, Public Media Director at the Center for Asian American Media, Kathmandu.
For more details visit:
Film South Asia
http://www.filmsouthasia.org/press-kit/
http://www.filmsouthasia.org/film/algorithms/
http://www.filmsouthasia.org/press-kit/algorithms-producer-gheetha-j-with-the-ram-bahadur-trophy/
UNICEF Nepal
https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.654646881246744&type=3&l=cedd3d1607
https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=654649871246445&set=a.654646881246744.1073741845.228556243855812&type=3&l=cedd3d1607&theater
DNA
New Indian Express
Algorithms Receives Special Mention
A fantastic response to the African Premiere of Algorithms culminated in a Special Mention – Best Documentary at the Durban International Film Festival. http://www.durbanfilmfest.co.za/diff-news/award-winners-announced-at-durban-international-film-festival