Indian Filmmaker Geethu Mohandas won Global filmmaking award

Actress-filmmaker Geethu Mohandas has received the Global Filmmaking award at Sundance Film Festival 2016.

The award is given to emerging filmmakers from the World Cinema stage on the basis of their next screenplay and the 34-year-old director received it for her upcoming feature “Insha’ Allah”. Apart Geethu, who won the National Award for “Liar’s Dice”, Armando Capo from Cuba, Moroccan filmmaker Abdellah Taia and Antonio Piazza, Fabio Grassadonia from Italy have also won the award.