The National Film Award for Best Promotional 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 non-feature films and awarded with Rajat Kamal (Silver Lotus).
The award was instituted in 1967, at 15th National Film Awards and awarded annually for short 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 Investigative 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 Anthropological/Ethnographic 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:
Awards legends
List of films, showing the year, language(s), producer(s) and director(s) Year Film(s) Language(s) Producer(s) Director(s) 1967 The Brown Diamond English Krishnaswamy Associates S. Krishnaswamy Sandesh Hindi J. S. Bhownagary and K. L. Khandpur for Films Division Omprakash Sharma 1968 No Award 1969 Weave Me Some Flowers English Mohan Wadhwani for Films Division P. B. Pendharkar 1970 No Award 1971 1972 Destination India English Cinerad Communications Zafar Hai 1973 Delhi the City Beautiful English Jagdish Banerjee Jagdish Banerjee Fibre The Fabric of Life English Khadi and Village Industries Commission G. L. Bhardwaj 1974 To Serve Is To Love English Cinerad Communications for Air India Zafar Hai Ek Anek Aur Ekta Hindi Bhim Sain Vijaya Mulay 1975 Zenith of India English Film Media Jyoti G. Thakur Poems in Pattern English Ranabir Ray Ranabir Ray 1976 1977 Parvati Hindi Santi P. Chowdhury Santi P. Chowdhury 1978 It Is Indian It Is Good Hindi Films Division B. D. Garga 1979 1980 Oil Offshore English Prem Prakash Satya Prakash 1981 Hydrum English Omprakash Sharma for Films Division Mahmood Quereshi 1982 No Award 1983 Ekta Aur Anushasan Hindi K. S. Kulkarni S. K. Sharma 1984 No Award 1985 No Award 1986 No Award 1987 No Award 1988 No Award 1989 Tuna: The Chicken of the Sea English D. Gautaman K. Jagajivan Ram 1990 No Award 1991 Of Mines and Men English P. C. Sharma Raghu Krishna 1992 Sound of the Dying Colors English Paran Barbarooah, B. B. Productions Sher Choudhury 1993 Timeless India English Zafar Hai Zafar Hai 1994 Blue Flames, Green Villages English National Afforestation and Eco-Development Board, Ministry of Environment and Forests Ramesh Asher 1995 No Award 1996 No Award 1997 Sarang: Symphony in Cocophony English Y. N. Engineer for Films DivisionJoshy Joseph for Films Division 1998 No Award 1999 No Award 2000 Pashmina Royale English Bappa Ray Bappa Ray 2001 News Magazine No. 458(In Search of Muga Silk) English Y. N. Engineer for Films Division K. G. Das 2002 The Treasure in the Snow: A Film on Sikkim English Ministry of External AffairsSouth Asia Foundation Goutam Ghose 2003 Ladakh: The Land of Mystery English Biyot Projna Tripathy Biyot Projna Tripathy 2004 No Award 2005 No Award 2006 Rendezvous With Time English Madhya Pradesh Madhyam Rajendra Junglay 2007 No Award 2008 Lost and Found MarathiEnglishHindi Harshavardhan G. KulkarniKirti NakhwaAmitabh Shukla Harshavardhan G. Kulkarni 2009 No Award 2010 Ek Ropa Dhan Hindi Meghnath Bhattacharjee Biju ToppoMeghnath Bhattacharjee 2011 The Dream Fulfilled: Memories of the Engineering Challenges English Delhi Metro Rail Corporation Satish Pande 2012 Dreaming Taj Mahal HindiUrdu Nirmal Chander Nirmal Chander 2013 Chasing The Rainbow English Edumedia India Charu Shree Roy Kush Hindi Red Carpet Moving Pictures Pvt. Ltd. Shubhashish Bhutiani 2014 Documentation of Clay Image Makers of Kumartuli English Indira Gandhi National Centre for the Arts Ranajit Ray 2015 Weaves of Maheshwar HindiEnglish Storyloom Films Keya VaswaniNidhi Kamath 2016 No Award 2017 Poetry on Fabric : Chanderinama Sanjay Gupta for Pro Art India Rajendra Junglay 2018 Rediscovering Jajam Hindi Rachel Bracken-SinghAnokhi Museum of Hand Printing Avinash MauryaKriti Gupta 2019 The Shower Little Lamb Films Pvt. Ltd. Bauddhayan Mukherji 2020 Surmounting Challenges English Delhi Metro Rail Corporation Satish Pande 2021 Endangered Heritage Baba Cinemas Hemant Verma
References
External links Official Page for Directorate of Film Festivals, India National Film Awards Archives