Facebook sponsors awards at Film Bazaar

PANAJI: Social networking site, Facebook made a surprise contribution at the NFDC film bazaar 2016 awards on Thursday by announcing awards for two of the films presented at the four-day long event in Goa.
Kabir Mehta’s ‘Buddha.Gram’ and Kanwal Sethi’s ‘Once Again’ won the Facebook credits award at the Film Bazaar. With this award, the filmmakers will find a cost free avenue to promote their film on the social networking site.In other words, Facebook will provide free ads worth $10,000 for the two films.
Sharing his thoughts about the same, head of growth and partnerships, Facebook, Kinshu Sinha said, “NFDC and Film Bazaar are emerging, both as a very powerful and strong forum for filmmakers and we are really proud to be associated with them. This is the first time we are sponsoring this but we would want to continue with this and come again in a much bigger way the next year.”