DH Flash Film Challenge | Here are the winners!

The top film will be screened at the DH Bengaluru 2040 Summit at the ITC Gardenia on February 17, 2024.

Time flies when you're having fun, isn't it!

The 50-hour Flash Film Challenge is now closed, and we thank everyone who participated enthusiastically.

Here are the winners of the DH Flash Film Challenge!

1. 'Wait For It' by Vallabha

2. 'Panjarada Gilli' by Chandana Nag

3. 'Modala Bheti' by Gagan Chirayu

Congratulations to the winning teams!

We will see you at the DH Bengaluru 2040 Summit at the ITC Gardenia, Bengaluru on February 17, 2024, where the top film will be screened and the prizes for the winning films will be given out.

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PRIZES*:

First Prize: ₹50,000

Second Prize: ₹30,000

Third Prize: ₹20,000

(*Subject to tax implications as per Indian law)

Meet the jury:

SHASHANK SOGHAL

Shashank Soghal started making short films in 2012 while he was working in Tata Consultancy Services as a Software Engineer. His fourth short film Patinga (2015) became one of the most popular Kannada short films.

It won a jury special mention award in BISFF 2015 and Best Actor in SIIMA short film awards 2017. Later, he worked in Viacom18 Network as a Creative Producer for 3 years. In 2020, he founded Cinemamara, a film production house.
Daredevil Musthafa is his debut directional feature film. The movie released on May 19 2023, garnered positive reviews and responses from the critics and audience.

SANDHYA KUMAR

Sandhya Kumar's films are rooted in non-fiction and inspired by the desire to make visible the poetry of everyday life. She has been making documentary films and experimental shorts since 2007. Sandhya has received grants from India Foundation for the Arts (IFA), Public Service Broadcasting Trust (PSBT) and has been an ATSA fellow at ARThink South Asia. 

Her 2012 documentary, O Friend, This Waiting! won the Indian National Film Award for Best Arts/Cultural Film, for its unconventional exploration of the Devadasi tradition in South India through the medium of love-poetry.

She works in Bangalore, India, and is a trustee of Vikalp Bengaluru, a filmmakers' collective. 

KARM CHAWLA

Karm Chawla is an up-and-coming cinematographer best known for his work in Special 26, Ulidavaru Kandanthe and The Dirty Picture.

He was nominated in 2015 under the Best Cinematographer category at SIIMA Kannada awards for his work in Ulidavaru Kandanthe.

His upcoming features involve the film Richard Anthony, directed by Rakshith Shetty.

About the Flash Film Challenge:

Bengaluru has famously been described as not one, but multiple cities. It is a city that lives in collective nostalgia for its older residents while also being a city of possibilities for those who move here.

It is a city that embraced science, technology and cosmopolitanism much before its Indian peers. Today, the IT capital of India has its eyes focussed on the future.

Despite its infrastructure and urban planning woes, it is a city we call home.

Since our inception, Bengaluru has been home to the Deccan Herald, and now, we invite you to turn the lens on the city we love.

The DH Weekend Film Challenge invites you to explore a city in transition.

Check out the terms & conditions.

Check out the legal agreement.

Submission Form: https://forms.gle/SyJkNn8sBTpzuT3U8

Participants must download, print, sign, and and upload the filmmaker’s agreement along with the Google form.