The National Film Award for Best Anthropological/Ethnographic Film was one of the National Film Awards presented annually by the Directorate of Film Festivals, the organisation set up by Ministry of Information and Broadcasting, India. It was one of several awards presented for feature films and awarded with Rajat Kamal (Silver Lotus).
The award was instituted in 1984, at 32nd National Film Awards and awarded annually for films produced in the year across the country, in all Indian languages. At the 70th National Film Awards, the award is discontinued and clubbed with National Film Award for Best Promotional Film, National Film Award for Best Scientific Film, National Film Award for Best Educational/Motivational/Instructional Film, National Film Award for Best Exploration/Adventure Film, National Film Award for Best Investigative Film, National Film Award for Best Agriculture Film, National Film Award for Best Film on Social Issues and National Film Award for Best Non-Feature Environment/Conservation/Preservation Film, and two new categories were created; Best Documentary and Best Non Feature Film Promoting Social and Environmental Values.
Winners
Award includes 'Rajat Kamal' (Silver Lotus) and cash prize. Following are the award winners over the years:
Indicates a joint award for that year List of films, showing the year language(s), producer(s) and director(s) Year Film(s) Language(s) Producer(s) Director(s) 1984 Bada Media Hindi Manohar S. Varpe 1985 The Whispering Wind English Biplab Roy Choudhury 1986 The Land Where Wind Blows Free English Director of Cultural Affairs, Assam Chandra Narayan Barua 1987 Raaste Band Hain Sab Hindi Manjiri Dingwaney, Rural Labour Cell Manjiri Dutta 1988 Maa Ooru Telugu B. Ramachandra Rao B. Narsing Rao 1989 Baiga Hindi Madhya Pradesh Madhyam Rajendra Janglay 1990 Lolaab English Hillman Film Pvt. Ltd Mohi-Ud-Din Mirza 1991 The Valiant Ones English A. K. Balakrishnan A. K. Balakrishnan 1992 Wangala: A Garo Festival English Bappa Ray Bappa Ray 1993 Ladakh: Life Along the Indus English Bappa Ray Bappa Ray 1994 The Trapped English K. Jayachandran O. K. Johnny 1995 Yelhou Jagoi Meitei Indira Gandhi National Centre for the Arts Aribam Syam Sharma 1996 No Award 1997 In the Land of Lepchas English Government of West Bengal Anjan BoseManas Kamal Chowdhari 1998 Kherwal Parab Santali Sankar Rakshit Sankar Rakshit 1999 Koihatir Dhulia Assamese Satyabrat Kalita Hemanta Das Surabhi Telugu K. Jaydev K. N. T. Sastry 2000 Scribbles on Akka Kannada Flavia Agnes Madhusree Dutta 2001 The Monpas of Arunachal Pradesh English Films Division Aribam Syam Sharma 2002 The Morung: Silent Witness of the Brave Wancho English Anthropological Survey of India Bappa Ray 2003 Aur Ghumantu Thhahar Gaye Hindi Leo Arts Communication Meenakshi Vinay Rai 2004 The Legend of Fat Mama English Rafeeq Ellias Rafeeq Ellias 2005 Spirit of the Graceful Lineage English Bibi Devi Barbarooah Prerana Barbarooah 2006 No Award 2007 Tai Phakey English Priyam Chaliha Mridul Gupta 2008 Boliya Pitaier Sohoki Sootal Assamese Altaf MazidZabeen AhmedSusanta Roy Altaf Mazid 2009 No Award 2010 Songs of Mashangva TangkhulMeiteiEnglish Oinam Doren Oinam Doren 2011 Bom HindiEnglish Anirban Datta Amlan Datta 2012 Char... The No-Man's Island Bengali Sourav Sarangi Sourav Sarangi 2013 No Award 2014 Qissa–e–Parsi : The Parsi Story English Public Service Broadcasting Trust Divya CowasjiShilpi Gulati 2015 Aoleang English Maulana Abul Kalam Azad Institute of Asian Studies Ranajit Ray 2016 No Award 2017 Name, Place, Animal, Thing Nithin R. Nithin R. Slave Genesis Aneez K. M. Aneez K. M. 2018 No Award 2019 No Award 2020 No Award 2021 No Award
References
External links Official Page for Directorate of Film Festivals, India National Film Awards Archives