Awards
A Delicate Weave
Jury’s commendation in the Intangible Culture category at the 16th Royal Anthropological Institute Festival 2019 at Bristol, UK
A Fly in the Curry
Special Mention in the President’s National Awards, 2017 best book on cinema category. The citation reads: “K.P.Jayasankar- Anjali Monteiro explore independent documentary films in India and revisit the relationship between filmmakers and their narratives. The book sets new standards for form and context in cinema studies.”
So Heddan So Hoddan
Silvers for Script, Cinematography and Sound Design IDPA Awards, 2011Best film, International Folk Music Film Festival, Kathmandu, 2012Basil Wright Prize, 13th RAI International Festival of Ethnographic Film 2013
Do Din ka Mela
Gold for Best Script and Certificate of Merit for the Best Documentary, IDPA Awards, 2010Commendation of the Jury, Intangible Culture Category, Royal Anthropological Institute (RAI)International Festival of Ethnographic Film, 2011Runner up, We Speak Here International Online Film Festival, 2012National Award: Rajat Kamal for Best Audiography, 2012
Breasts
Special Mention of the Jury, Sadho International Poetry Festival, New Delhi, 2007
Space
Gold for Best Cell Story, IDPA Awards, 2008
Our Family
Special Jury Award, Signs Film Festival, Thiruvananthapuram, 2007Certificate of Merit and Special Mention of the Jury, MIFF 2008Gold for Best Sound Design, Gold for Best Script, Silver for Editing, and Certificate of Merit for the Best Documentary, IDPA Awards, 2008
SheWrite
Best documentary, IV Three Continents International Documentary Festival, Venezuela, 2005Gold for Sound Design and Silver for Cinematography, Indian Documentary Producers Association (IDPA) Awards, 2005SadhoInternational Poetry Festival Special Award, New Delhi, 2010
Saacha
Second Prize, New Delhi Video Forum, 2001
YCP 1997
Certificate of Merit, Mumbai International Film Festival, 1998Jury’s Award for Best Innovation, Astra Festival of Anthropological Documentary Film, Sibiu, Romania, 1998
Kahankar: Ahankar
Jury’s Special Mention, Mumbai International Film Festival, 1996
Odhni- A Collective Exploration of Our Selves, Our Bodies
Second Prize, Health and Population Category, International Video Festival on Science, Society and Development, Thiruvanathapuram, 1995
Identity- The Construction of Selfhood
Asia Prize, Prix Futura Berlin 1995Second Prize, Education and Literacy Category, International Video Festival on Science, Society and Development, Thiruvanathapuram, 1995
The Plot Thickens…
First Prize and the Award for Individual Technical Excellence in Editing, Sixth UGC Country-wide Classroom Video Festival, Calcutta, 1993
From the Diary of a Genetic Counsellor
Best Programme Award, Open/General category, Fifth UGC Country-wide Classroom Video Festival, Hyderabad, 1992