'Valley of Flowers' bags Best Film award at Indian Filmfest at LA

New Delhi, Apr 25 (UNI) Pan Nalin's 'Valley of Flowers' bagged the Best Film award while John Jeffcoat's 'Outsourced' won the audience choice award for Best Film at the fifth edition of the Indian film festival of Los Angeles.

The six-day Film Festival, being held at ArcLight Hollywood, concluded on Monday with the Los Angeles premiere of Rajnesh Domalpalli's 'Vanaja', festival authorities said.

'Vanaja' had its world premiere at the Toronto International Film Festival recently and has also received the Berlin International Film Festival's Best Debut Feature Award.

Incidentally, 'Vanaja' also won a special mention from the jury for the Best Debut Feature.

Grand Jury prize for Best Documentary went to 'Q2P' directed by Paromita Vohra while 'Tea Break', directed by Srinivas Sunderrajan, won the Grand Jury Pize for Best Short.

'Printed Rainbow', directed by Gitanjali Rao, won a special mention in the Short film category.

In the audience choice awards, Sharat Raju's 'Divided We Fall' won the Best Documentary Film award while Shyam Balse-directed 'Monsoon' won the prize for Best Short film.

The winners of the Jury and audience choice awards were announced at the post-screening Gala Reception on Monday.

This year, the festival paid tribute to acclaimed actress, poet, painter and writer Deepti Naval who has received widespread recognition for a career that has spanned nearly 30 years. As part of the tribute, the Film festival showcased three films of her most renowned performances that included 'Kamla', Panchavati' and 'Main Zinda Hoon'.

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