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The four-day event, Film Bazaar at IFFI which was held at the Goa Marriott Resort from November 20-24 witnessed the participation of many enthusiastic filmmakers, students and fans. The Producers' Workshop had 15 participants and was focused towards film students this year. The Viewing Room had an astounding 202 films, while Film Bazaar Recommends' featured 24 films and Industry Screenings saw 28 films. The Viewing Room saw more than 100 people come to watch the films that were selected.
The State Film Offices of Maharashtra, Gujarat, Uttar Pradesh, Jharkhand, Delhi, Rajasthan, Lakshadweep, Telangana, Karnataka and Madhya Pradesh collaborated with the Film Facilitation Offices (FFO) to promote their states as filmmaking locations to national and international filmmakers
The four-day extravaganza came to a close with a grand awards ceremony which saw the Prasad Digital Intermediate (DI) awards going to Ivan Ayr's film Soni (Film Bazaar Recommends 2017) and Kannada film Balekempa (The Bangle Seller) directed by Ere Gowda (Work-In-Progress Lab 2017).
The Prasad Lab DI award (Film Bazaar Recommends) jury comprised of Paolo Bertolin, Programmer, Venice Film Festival, Sergio Fant, Programmer, Locarno Festival and Laurence Kardish, Artistic Director, Film Columbia Festival and the award was handed over by Jayprakash Naidu, executive director of Prasad Labs.
The Prasad Lab DI award (Work-in-Progress Lab) jury comprised of Marco Mueller, director of Pingyao International Film Festival, producer Philippa Campbell, producer and consultant Olivia Stewart and Film Editor Jacques Comets.
The Facebook Awards were given to Ivan Ayr's Soni and Sandeep Modi's Chumbak (The Lottery) (Film Bazaar Recommends 2017).
The winners will be given Facebook ad credits worth $10,000 which can then be used to promote their films.
