Golden Jury Film Festival

The Golden Jury Film Festival is a film festival in India, that is held annually in Mumbai. It was founded in 2019.

History
Golden Jury Film Festival was founded by Pragyesh Singh. The first edition of the Golden Jury Film Festival was held in Mumbai, India in 2019.

2019 Festival
It was a two-day film festival that was held in Andheri, Mumbai, on December 17–18, under the Golden Jury Film Academy's banner, whose program director was cinematographer Shubhranshu Das. The film festival had entries of 117 films, of which 15 films were screened and awards were distributed in 16 categories.

The competition winners in 2019 included Forbidden Tikka Masala (Best Film), Naseeruddin Shah (Best Actor), Navni Parihar (Best Actress), Bhoomika Meena (Best Actress), Neena Gupta (Special Jury), Neeraj Yadav (Best Director) and Resul Pookutty (Best Sound Designing).

The following film and TV personalities participated in the 1st edition:


 * Amrit Gangar
 * Inamul Haque
 * Bidita Bag
 * Vikram Kochhar
 * Vikas Khanna
 * Nitin Kakkar
 * Karthik Krishnan
 * Sagar Sarhadi
 * Major Bikramjeet Kanwarpal
 * Rahul Bose
 * Anjali Patil
 * Sunil Pal
 * Gadadhar Puty
 * Ashok Purang
 * Sandeep Nath.

2020 Festival
The second edition of the Golden Jury Film Festival was held in December 2020. It began on 14 December and conclude on December 16. The Golden Jury Film Festival 2020 was launched by actor Vinay Pathak and Sharib Hashmi. The festival showcased 40 films out of 520 entries. Actor Rahul Bose, Nitin Kakkar, Bidita Bag, Inaamulhaq, Vikram Kochhar and Anjali Patil were guests at the festival while its jury members were Smita Jaykar, Shishir Sharma, Ashok Purang, Sandeep Nath and Gadadhar Putty.

2021 Festival
The 2021 edition of the Golden Jury Film Festival showcased a selection of 68 films from a total of 564 submissions. Shishir Sharma and Smita Jaykar contributed their expertise as jury members, alongside the National Award-winning director Gadadhar Puty and theatre personality Ashok Purang. Actor Divyenndu Sharma was honored with the Best Male Actor award for his performance in the film Mere Desh Ki Dharti, while the film's director received the Best Director award in the feature film category. Saurabh Shukla's film, The Incomplete Tale of Satyaprakash Paramkovid, secured the Best Feature Film award at the festival.

2022 Festival
The fourth edition of the festival was held in December 2022. It was attended by notable personalities from the film industry, including Pavan Malhotra, Gauahar Khan, Vikram Kochhar, Yashpal Sharma, Manoj Bakshi, J. D. Chakravarthy, Inaamulhaq, Saharsh Shukla, Girish Thapar, Nitin Kakkar, Mukesh Bhatt, Barkha Bisht, Shahid Mallya, and Arvinder Singh.

The jury includes Odia filmmaker Gadadhar Putty, lyricist Sandeep Nath, film theorist and curator Amrit Gangar, and acting coach Ashok Purang.

The film awards were given in 20 different categories, which included Documentary, Short, and Feature films. Some of the winning films were Vanrakshak, Midnight Delhi, Bright Future, Purple Case, Neither a girl nor a Woman, Behrupiya, Meet Mr. Chang, Dobya, Sambhram - Never Odd or Even, Between The Lines, Nimmo Lucknow Wali, Zibha, and Dammy.

2023 edition
The fifth edition of the Golden Jury Film Festival was held on December 13 and 14, 2023, with support from Uttar Pradesh Tourism, the Government of Uttar Pradesh. Notable figures from the film industry, such as Tejaswini Kolhapure, Brijendra Kala, Yashpal Sharma, Atul Srivastava, Inaamulhaq, Vikram Kochhar, Aditya Srivastava, Rajesh Jais, Shishir Sharma, Piyush Mishra, Smita Jaykar, and Mukesh Bhatt, among others, were in attendance.

A diverse range of films was showcased during the festival, including Piyush Mishra's Rare, Titu Ambani featuring Deepika Singh and Raghubir Yadav, Dada Lakhmi starring Yashpal Sharma, Kripiya Dhyan Dein, Ghost Walk, and several others. The closing film, Bed No. 17, directed by Mir Sarwar, concluded the event.

Awards

 * 2019
 * 2020


 * 2021
 * 2022
 * 2023