COVID Warrior’s Short Film ‘MASK’ Wins International Award
Berhampur: A short film made by a corona warrior in Odisha’s Ganjam district to create awareness on importance of wearing mask has won the ‘International People’s Choice Award’ at the Quarantine Image Film Festival-2020 in Argentina. The short film ‘MASK’ directed by senior OAS officer Shewta Kumar Das, who is on a four-month deputation to [...]
Berhampur: A short film made by a corona warrior in Odisha’s Ganjam district to create awareness on importance of wearing mask has won the ‘International People’s Choice Award’ at the Quarantine Image Film Festival-2020 in Argentina.
The short film ‘MASK’ directed by senior OAS officer Shewta Kumar Das, who is on a four-month deputation to Ganjam district for COVID duty, has bagged the prestigious award.
The 7-minute-18-second Odia film portrays the struggle of a poor boy to support livelihood of his family amid the coronavirus pandemic.
The film shows how the boy helped his family to sustain livelihood by selling the hand-made masks prepared by his mother. It also showed the reluctance of people to purchase them due to low price.
The ‘MASK’ is among 3000 entries at the Quarantine Image Film Festival-2020. The jury members adjudged ‘MASK’ as the best awareness film on COVID-19.
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