Payal Kapadia: A new vision catches Cannes Golden Eye gulftoday.ae - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from gulftoday.ae Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
The 74th edition of the Cannes Film Festival capped off after a dizzying 12-day affair, with its closing ceremony held in the most unusually chaotic fashion. Jury president Spike Lee revealed the big winner of the night saved for the very last announcement the Palme d’Or, at the very beginning, culminating into a flurry of shocked responses. When the host of the ceremony, Doria Tiller, asked Lee to present the due awards, Lee at once announced that the Palme d’Or had been awarded to Titane. Fellow jury members Tahar Rahim and Melanie Laurent had to stop Lee, who having realised his mistake, slipped into an awkward moment of silence. “I apologise for messing up,” said the film-maker, as he later let the presenter, actress Sharon Stone, announce the winner to thunderous applause.
Winner of Best Documentary at Cannes Had Faced Disciplinary Action After 2015 FTII Protest
FTII had initially slashed Payal Kapadia s scholarship after her involvement in protests against the appointment of Gajendra Chauhan has chairperson.
Payal Kapadia. Photo: Twitter/@mknid
New Delhi: Director Payal Kapadia’s
A Night of Knowing Nothing has won the Oeil d’or (Golden Eye) award for best documentary at the 74th Cannes Film Festival.
However, in 2015, Kapadia had been at the forefront of the four-month long protests against the appointment of Gajendra Chauhan as the chairperson of the Film and Television Institute of India.
This was one of the longest ever protests seen on FTII campus, as students boycotted classes questioning Chauhan’s capability to lead an institute of such stature. Chauhan had played side roles on a few mythological dramas and was a BJP politician at the time of his appointment.
Review: A Night of Knowing Nothing cineuropa.net - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from cineuropa.net Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
CANNES â Mumbai-based filmmaker Payal Kapadia has won the Oeil d or (Golden Eye) award for Best Documentary for her film, A Night of Knowing Nothing, at the Cannes Film Festival. A Night of Knowing Nothing has emerged the winner from a list of 28 documentaries submitted from around the world.
The announcement was made through the Twitter account of the Cannes Independent movie selection handle Quinzaine Des Real July 17.
The tweet read: The Oeil d Or, the award for best documentary presented at the Cannes Film Festival all sections combined, goes to A NIGHT OF KNOWING NOTHING by Payal Kapadia, a film selected at the Directors Fortnight. Our warmest congratulations to Payal Kapadia and the entire film crew!