Nila Madhab Panda

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Nila Madhab Panda is an Odia director and producer involved in making mainstream and parallel Hindi films, documentaries, short films and public service advertising campaigns. He has served on the juries of national and international film festivals, such as International Film Festival of India (IFFI). He started his career by assisting director Robin Romanov and producer Barbara Broccoli.

His first feature film I Am Kalam became an iconic film winning 34 international awards along with a national award. His second feature film Jalpari (Desert Mermaid) received the MIP Junior award at Cannes. He continued making path breaking films like Babloo Happy Hai (Babloo is happy) and Kaun Kitne Paani Mein (In troubled water). His project Kadvi Hawa (Dark wind) was highly rated and critically acclaimed globally and received a national award. This is one of the first films that brought climate change into Indian cinema. His feature-length documentary God's own people narrated by Amitabh Bachchan connects between people's faith with tree and God.

Halkaa (Relief) was his production - a musical film with children. The film narrates a story about the Swachhata Abhiyaan (Clean India Mission) and the importance of sanitation. It won Best Film at the Grand Prix in Poland. In February 2021, Panda announced that his First Odia language film Kalira Atita had been submitted to the Oscars 2021 in the General Category and was available for Academy screening. However, the film did not make the cut for Oscar nominations.

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• Jalpari won MIP Junior award for best film, 2012, Cannes
• Viewers' Choice award at IFFLA, 2011
• Best Feature Film (I am Kalam) in Chicago International Children's Film Festival, 2011
• People's Choice Award at the Montreal International Children's Film Festival, 2011
• Best Feature Film award at Silent River Film Festival (SRFF), California, 2011
• Best Director award at Silent River Film Festival (SRFF), California, 2011
• Winner of the Don Quixote Prize of the International Cine Club Federations at the Lucas International Film Festival, Germany, 2010
• Winner of "Best feature film" at the Lucas International Film Festival, Frankfurt 2010
• "Special Jury mention" CineKid International Film Festivals 2010
• "International Jury's Special Mention" at the Ale Kino International Film Festival, Poland 2010
• Bronze Cairo for Best Feature at Cairo International Film Festival for Children, Cairo, 2012
• The Prize of the International Center of Films For Children & Young People (CIFEJ) at the Cairo International Film Festival for Children, Cairo, 2012
• Winner of "Best feature film" from the Indian Panorama by the Young Jury at the 41st International, Film Festival of India 2010
• Best Debut Director – Aravindam Purashkaram, 2011
• Golden Elephant Award for the Best Screenplay at 17th International Children's Film Festival, India,2011
• Best Feature Film in CMS International Film Festival, 2011
• "Audience Favorite choice" at the Barbican London Children Film Festival 2010
• Audience Favorite at Barbican London Children's Film Festival, 2011
• Best Feature Film, Dream Fest – Slatina, 2012
• Best Film (Halkaa) at the Grand Prix in Poland, 2018

• Padma Shri, 2016
• British Council - Creative Futures of India 2006 (Longest Journey award)
• UK Environment Film Fellowship 2005
• Heroism in Cinematography, 2003 THP, New York
• "Excellence in media" for fighting the cause female foeticide
• United Nations Visual Media fellowship 2002
• "Odisha icon" 2011
• "Living Legend" 2012
• "Son of Odisha" 2012
• "Bharat Gaurav (India's pride)" 2015
• Asia Pacific entrepreneurship award
• Karmaveer Purasakar
• 2021 - Jury member at 52nd International Film Festival of India, Goa 2021