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Films and Frames Digital Film Awards
CountryIndia
Presented byFilms and Frames (Neil Roy & Tanmoy Banerjee)
First awarded10 July 2020 (2020-07-10)
WebsiteFAFDA

Films and Frames Digital Film Awards, popularly known as FAFDA are awards to reward artistic and technical merit in the Bengali Film Industry. The concept of a regional digital awards was conceived during the COVID-19 pandemic which began during the summer of 2020, forcing both artists and audiences into isolation, hence the entire award show was shot indoors by either the artists themselves or by the FAFDA crew.[1]

History

Films and Frames Digital Film Awards started off with the Chinese social media platform Helo from the house of ByteDance Ltd as its title partner and the award show was subsequently re-branded to Helo Films and Frames Digital Film Awards.[2] Since the mid of June 2020 however, tensions started escalating between India and China at the border between the two nations. Under section 69A of the information technology act, the Indian Ministry of Information Technology identified 54 Chinese apps, Helo being one of them which threatened the ‘sovereignty’ of India.[3][4] Following this development, Films and Frames with immediate effect terminated its partnership with Helo. On the 12th of June 2020, actress Srabanti Chatterjee[5] launched the logo of FAFDA 2020.[6] To make the content social media appropriate and viewable on a smartphone, for the first time an entire award show was shot in a vertical 9:16 format and aired as episodic content, over a period of 10 days. The first episode premiered on the 10th of July 2020 on Facebook Watch.

Awards

Viewer's choice

Critics choice

Jury's choice

References

  1. ^ "Tollywood gets a new digital award show to celebrate Bangla cinema". Times of India. Retrieved 10 July 2020.
  2. ^ "Helo Films And Frames Digital Film Awards show to stream from 5 July". Cinestaan. Retrieved 15 June 2020.
  3. ^ "India Bans 59 Chinese Apps, Including TikTok, UC Browser, SHAREit". The Quint. Retrieved 30 June 2020.
  4. ^ "TikTok, Shareit, UC Browser among 59 Chinese apps banned by India as border tensions simmer in Ladakh". The India Today. Retrieved 30 June 2020.
  5. ^ "Films And Frames Unveiled The Logo Of 'Digital Film Awards' In Association With Helo". DD Hindusthan. Retrieved 24 June 2020.
  6. ^ "Films and Frames Is All Set To Organise First Ever 'Home Award function' Exclusively Designed For Digital Platform". Tollykata. Retrieved 15 June 2020.
  7. ^ "Parineeta gets awarded". Opinion Times. Retrieved 5 July 2020.
  8. ^ "A Complete Digital Film Award". Jugsankha. Retrieved 17 July 2020.
  9. ^ "Parineeta wins 7 Awards and Subhashree for Best Actress". Zee News. Retrieved 5 July 2020.
  10. ^ "Films and Frames Digital Film Awards Winners Announced". News Front. Retrieved 5 July 2020.
  11. ^ "Films and Frames Digital Film Awards streaming on Social Media". United News of India. Retrieved 10 July 2020.
  12. ^ "Jaya Ahsan sets trend". Asian Age. Retrieved 5 July 2020.
  13. ^ "F&F streams now". Times of Bengal. Retrieved 10 July 2020.
  14. ^ "Bengali Film 'Gotra' adjudged as Best film in Helo Films and Frames Digital Film Awards". Odisha News Times. Retrieved 8 July 2020.

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