Chief Minister, Dr. Pramod Sawant today announced that Goa State Film Festival themed on 75 Years of Goan Cinema, will be held from August 14 to 17, 2025.
Vice-Chairperson of Entertainment Society of Goa, Delilah Lobo, CEO of ESG Asvin Chandru, IAS, General Body Member of ESG, Sharmad Raiturkar were also present at the press conference.
The four-day festival comprises 10th, 11th and 12th editions of Goa State Film Festival and will be organised in association with Department of Information and Publicity.
The 10th edition will showcase the films made from 1st January 2018 to 31st Dec 2019. The 11th edition will pertain to 1st January 2020 to 31st December 2021 films, while the 12th edition will have the films made from 1st January 2022 to 31st December 2023.
The inaugural ceremony will be held on 14th August 2025 and closing ceremony will be on 17th August 2025.
The movie screenings will take place in Maquinez Palace theatre and Inox, Panaji. Various workshops, In-Conversation sessions, Market Interactions, Knowledge series and Information segments will be the part of this festival.
The festival, which will showcase Goan regional language movies in Konkani and Marathi languages, will be screening in 2 categories – •Feature Films will have two sections – Konkani and Marathi separately
•Non-Feature films will have a combined section for Konkani and Marathi languages.
The feature film should have minimum running time of 70 minutes while non-feature films should have a minimum running time of 5 minutes and maximum time of less than 70 minutes. Films of which a minimum of 15% on screen artist and 15% main technicians must be of Goan origin or having at least 15 years domicile in the State of Goa (further details are available on www.esg.co.in). All films should have Censor Certificate and with subtitles in English.
Submission of films for the competition section of Goa State Film Festival, will start from 17th June 2025 and the last date of submission of the forms is 7th July 2025.
Awards in the Feature Films section:
1. Best Film First Prize Rs. 500000
Second Prize Rs. 300000
2. Best Direction First Prize Rs. 50000
Second Prize Rs. 35000
3. Best Actor Rs. 25000
4. Best Actress Rs. 25000
5. Best Sup. Actor Rs. 25000
6. Best Sup. Actress Rs. 25000
7. Best Child Artiste Rs. 25000
8. Best Story Rs. 25000
9. Best Screenplay Rs. 25000
10. Best Dialogues Rs. 25000
11. Best Lyrics Rs. 25000
12. Best Music Director Rs. 25000
13. Best Playback Singer (male) Rs. 25000
14. Best Playback Singer (female) Rs. 25000
15. Best Cinematography Rs. 25000
16. Best Editor Rs. 25000
17. Best Audiography Rs. 25000
18. Best Art Director Rs. 25000
19. Best Costume Designer Rs. 25000
Awards in the Non-Feature Films section:
1.Best Non-Feature Film (Two awards as under)
Fiction Rs. 100000
Non-Fiction Rs. 100000
Other awards for Non-Feature Films:
1. Best Cinematography Rs. 25000
2. Best Audiography Rs. 25000
3. Best Editing Rs. 25000
4. Best Music Direction Rs. 25000
5. Best Theme Rs. 20000
Meanwhile, there is new feature that is set to delight the aspiring filmmakers and enthusiasts at the upcoming film festival. ESG has mooted a short film-making competition during pre-festival period.
The topic for the film will be given during festival and the movie-makers will have to submit their films in 48 hours after the topic is announced. Selected films will also be screened during the festival.
Awards for Short film competition:
Best Film – First place Rs 25000 & 2nd place Rs 20000
Best Cinematographer – Rs. 15000
Best Editor – Rs. 15000
Best Director – Rs 15000
Best Actor (Male) – Rs 15000
Best Actor (female) – Rs 15000
For more information pertaining to the festival, visit www.esg.co.in
