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Matinee Director's Hunt; Ten directors from the second round have been announced

By P Sivaprasad

Matinee.live is a completely new OTT platform in Malayalam. Renowned producer and project designer Badusha and producer Shinoy Mathew owned the new OTT paltform. The launched of the OTT platform's logo & app was carried out by Fahad Fazil and Prithviraj.

Matinee Director's Hunt for talented new directors has garnered a lot of attention. The best director selected from the thirty director gets the rare opportunity to direct a movie produced under the banner of Matinee. Actor Kunchacko Boban had earlier announced the top ten directors for the hunt.

The best video out of the thirty selected videos will be given a cash prize of Rs 1 lakh by Matinee. In addition, ten directors have the golden opportunity to direct web series produced by Matinee. Also twenty nine videos will get cash prize of Rs 10,000 each. Ten directors have now been selected for the second round of the competition. The winners are selected by a ten member jury. The winners were announced by renowned directors Arun Gopy, Jude Anthany Joseph, Ajai Vasudev, G Marthandan, Vidhu Vincent, Ahmed Khabeer, Sohan Seenulal, Ratheesh Ravi, Tom Emmatty and Rafi.

Selected directors and short films are:

Unni Shivalingam (Multal)
Mithun PS (Neelima)
Aravind S (Nilam)
Anthony Charles (Koode Njanum)
Ranju Ranjimar (Kuttikoora)
Mridul S (Samaram)
Nasir Badruddin (Uncover)
Shamnad NK (Pathummas Aadu)
Varun Dhara (Swpnam)
RJ Shawn (Freedom at Midnight)