Keralan animation film Pupy 2 bags National Award!
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oi-Shekhar Hooli
By Sampurn Wire
Pupy
2,
the
Keralan
animation
film
for
children,
has
won
the
prestigious
Golden
Beaver
Award.
The
film
was
a
favorite
amongst
all
present
at
the
National
Science
Film
Festival.
The
event
was
organized
by
the
Indian
Science
Congress
in
Chennai,
few
days
ago.
The
Silver
Beaver
Award,
which
is
given
to
the
second
best
movie,
was
bagged
by
State
Institute
of
Educational
Technology"s
production
Ants
all
around
us.
Though
it"s
not
an
animation
film
but
nonetheless,
it"s
a
great
video
film.
The
third
position
award,
which
is
called
the
Bronze
Beaver
Award,
was
also
nabbed
by
one
of
the
State
Institute
of
Educational
Technology"s
production,
named
Butterflies.
Coming
back
to
Pupy
2,
it"s
been
launched
as
a
science
education
film
for
children,
that
explains
basic
day
to
day
scientific
occurrences
happening
around
us,
said
the
production
house,
Hibiscus
Digital
Media
of
Thiruvananthapuram.
The
prize
money
is
less
but
the
respect
is
huge.
Pupy
2"s
director
K.S.
Madhu
was
awarded
50,000
INR
from
film
maker
Adoor
Gopalakrishnan.
The
jury
at
the
International
Documentary
and
Short
Film
Festival
of
Kerala
also
gave
a
special
mention
to
the
film.
Pupy
2
is
originally
a
sequel
of
Pupy
1,
which
was
a
children"s
television
programme.
The
Pupy
1
series
had
won
the
State
television
award
for
best
children's
television
programme
in
2006.
All
in
all,
58
films
were
competing
in
this
event.
The
prize
money
for
the
second
and
third
position
was
30,000
INR
and
20,000
INR
respectively.